Nick Frost

Overview

Born
March 28, 1972 · Hornchurch, Essex, England, UK
Birth name
Nicholas John Frost
Height
5′ 7½″ (1.71 m)

Biography

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Trademarks

Frequently works with actor and best friend Simon Pegg, playing his sidekick, such as in Spaced, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, Paul and The World's End.

Trivia

Nick Frost is Simon Pegg's best friend and they used to be flatmates.
Worked in a Mexican restaurant for six years. As a bartender, waiter and cook.
Says that best friend and frequent co-star Simon Pegg introduced him to Woody Allen films and made him a more mature, cultured person all around.
His favorite films include Dead Man's Shoes (2004), Bottle Rocket (1996), The Shining (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and (all-time favorite) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
Wasn't an actor prior to playing "Mike Watt" in Spaced (1999) - he was working as a waiter.

Quotes

[on his brief experience as a stand-up comedian] I did ten gigs at the very beginning. Five were amazing, and five were the worst moments of my life.
[on his character in Spaced (1999)] Mike is based on a couple of people I know, one is a friend called "Flea", who is mad on weapons and stuff and Russia and another is "Jon", an ex-security guard who also likes guns a bit too much. But for their military love they are both lovely blokes.
[on the trials of playing weapons-expert "Mike Watt" in Spaced (1999)] I took a gun home to practice stripping it. A woman saw the barrel sticking out of my bag and called the police. I had gone home and it was a very hot day, so I opened the back door of my house and was sitting in a pair of skimpy shorts with a blindfold on, taking the gun to pieces. When I put it back and lifted the blindfold up, there were six or eight armed policemen holding firearms at me and they came in and started screaming - it was very tense.
[on the science-fiction series Blake's 7 (1978)] Like Bergerac (1981) in space.
[on Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) co-star, Kristen Stewart] She's fun on set. She's a fantastic actress. I think people forget she's fairly young still, but she's dedicated and she wants to do a good job. Often, I don't think people take that into consideration. She's doing 'Twilight' and stuff like that, but she's dedicated and she works hard. I mean, how old is she? Twenty-three, Twenty-four? I don't know that many twenty-three or twenty-four year-olds that get picked up at 4 am and work until 10 at night, six days a week. She comes on set smiling and laughing and she knows her lines.