10 Actors Who Appeared In Star Wars And Doctor Who

Simon Pegg is one of those rare actors who's completed the holy trinity, having nabbed roles in Star Wars, Star Trek, and Doctor Who. Add to that all the cool points he gained by working on the Cornetto trilogy and Mission Impossible, and this unassuming Brit is something of a god amongst nerds.

After playing chief engineer Scotty in the 2009 Star Trek reboot (and its 2013 sequel), Pegg's minor, easy-to-miss Star Wars role came during 2015's The Force Awakens, where the actor was hidden under several layers of makeup and prosthetics as Unkar Plutt, the penny-pinching junk dealer who interacts with Rey a couple of times throughout the film.

Pegg's Doctor Who character was also a bit of a dick, with the superstar helping bring the show back to television in the first series of the 2005 revival. Squaring off against Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor in the episode The Long Game, Pegg played the scenery-chewing villain The Editor, a glorified henchman who served a higher power that was manipulating the human race.

Pegg was originally set to play Pete Tyler, a character who would recur throughout Series 2 - unlike the one-and-done Editor. However, considering that his Hollywood career blew up around this time, it's unclear if Pegg would've been game for more modestly-budgeted, small-screen sci-fi.