Simon Pegg's 10 Best Roles

7. Tim Bisley - Spaced

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Even in his early work we find element's of Pegg's particular character style; namely overly-eager geeks with relationship problems and a penchant for Nick Frost.

From the pilot to the final episode, Bisley grows believably into a memorable and relatable individual. As a lesson in how to properly flesh out a protagonist and win the audience over, despite numerous !*$%-ups, Pegg's performance gives us a near perfect specimen.

As a man struggling with motivation and his own shortcomings, someone who realises that he has treated his close friends poorly and who struggles to fix these mistakes, Tim Bisley is an eminently relatable character with compelling problems. The characters and their issues may be caricatures in the truest sense of the word (blown way out of proportion) but that doesn't stop us feeling for them, perhaps Tim most of all.

When it comes to early days in a career, any actor could do a whole lot worse than a cult-classic TV series.

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My passion for all things Sci Fi goes back to my earliest days, when old VHS copies of Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet gripped my tiny mind with their big, noisy vehicles and terrifying puppets. I'd like to say my taste got more refined over the years, but between the Warhammer, Space Dandy and niche Star Wars EU books, perhaps it just got broader. I've enjoyed games of all calibre since I figured out that dice weren't just for eating, and have written prose ever since I was left unsupervised with some crayons next to a white wall. I got away with it by calling it "schoolwork" for as long as I could, and university helped me keep the charade going a while longer. Since my work began to get published, it's made all those long hours repainting the walls seem worth it.