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Cast

Sandford Police Service

• Simon Pegg as PC/Sgt./Insp. Nicholas Angel
• Nick Frost as PC/Sgt. Danny Butterman
• Jim Broadbent as Insp. Frank Butterman
• Paddy Considine as DS Andy Wainwright
• Rafe Spall as DC Andy Cartwright
• Kevin Eldon as Sgt. Tony Fisher
• Olivia Colman as PC Doris Thatcher
• Karl Johnson as PC Bob Walker
• Bill Bailey as the Sergeants Turner
• Sampson as Saxon

Neighbourhood Watch Alliance

• Timothy Dalton as Simon Skinner
• Edward Woodward OBE as Tom Weaver
• Billie Whitelaw CBE as Joyce Cooper
• Eric Mason as Bernard Cooper
• Stuart Wilson as Dr. Robin Hatcher
• Paul Freeman as Rev. Philip Shooter
• Kenneth Cranham as James Reaper
• Peter Wight as Roy Porter
• Julia Deakin as Mary Porter
• Patricia Franklin as Annette Roper
• Lorraine Hilton as Amanda Paver
• Tim Barlow as Mr. Treacher
• Rory McCann as Michael Armstrong
• Trevor Nicholis as Greg Prosser
• Elizabeth Elvin as Sherri Prosser

Metropolitan Police Service

• Martin Freeman as the Sergeant
• Steve Coogan as the Inspector (uncredited)
• Bill Nighy as the Ch. Insp. Kenneth
• Cate Blanchett as Janine (uncredited)
• Chris Waitt as Dave
• Edgar Wright as Dave (Voice) (uncredited)
• Joe Cornish as Bob
• Robert Popper as "Not Janine"

Sandford residents

• Stephen Merchant as Peter Ian Staker
• Alice Lowe as Tina
• David Bradley as Arthur Webley
• Anne Reid as Leslie Tiller
• Ben McKay as Peter Cocker
• Adam Buxton as Tim Messenger
• David Threlfall as Martin Blower
• Lucy Punch as Eve Draper
• Ron Cook as George Merchant
• Edgar Wright as Shelf Stacker (uncredited)
• Joseph McManners as Gabriel
• Rory McCann as Michael Armstrong
• Graham Low as The Living Statue
• Alexander King as Aaron A Aaronson

While writing the script, the film's director and writer, Edgar Wright, as well as Simon Pegg, intended to include Nick Frost as the partner for Pegg's character. Frost revealed that he would do the film only if he could name his character, and he chose "Danny Butterman". Cast requirements included fifty people for speaking and non-speaking parts, and there were several casting calls for citizens of Wells, Somerset, to fill the roles, as the city was where most of the filming took place.

Cameos

• British singer and actor Joseph McManners played a cameo role as a tearaway schoolboy, although his background story and an entire sub-plot surrounding his character were cut from the final version and can only be found within the DVD bonus features.
• Wright revealed in an interview that Cate Blanchett was given her cameo role as Janine, Angel's ex-girlfriend, as a result of her being a fan of Shaun of the Dead.
• Jim Broadbent similarly revealed his interest in Shaun and requested a role while meeting with Simon Pegg at a BAFTA awards ceremony.
• Wright met with director Peter Jackson while he was filming King Kong, and Jackson suggested that he would be willing to do a cameo in the film. Edgar had Jackson wear a fake beard and pads to portray Father Christmas who stabs Angel in the opening montage.
• In the same opening montage, Garth Jennings can be seen as a drug dealer, with the audio commentary stating Garth and Edgar Wright had an agreement to have cameo appearances in each other's films.