Simon Pegg's 10 Best Roles

10. Sergeant Nicholas Angel - Hot Fuzz

As the straitlaced leading man of Edgar Wright's killer cop comedy, Simon Pegg is at his very best in Hot Fuzz.

Nicholas Angel is the quintessential Pegg performance, a fantastically well acted character with a flawless sense of unintentional comedy timing. In his role as the recently promoted and forcibly relocated police Sergeant of the sleepy village of Sandford, he uncovers a decades-old conspiracy of murder and organised beautification, and resolves to put a stop to it.

Between police corruption, widespread incompetence and his own inability to be a human being, Sgt. Angel and his overawed partner Constable Butterman thwart the machinations of the N.W.A (Neighbourhood Watch Alliance) and bring justice back to Sandford. Pegg and Frost have a wonderful dynamic in this film, each character building off the other and in general being even more adorable than usual.

With an iconic approach to action that turns a supermarket into a warzone the pair tear through the town in a rampage of film-inspired carnage, and all without a single fatality from the side of law and order.

He even manages to get the swan.