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Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Noam Baron Cohen is an English actor, filmmaker, and comedian. Known for his creation and portrayal of the fictional satirical characters Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Brüno Gehard, and Admiral General Haffaz Aladeen, he has received various accolades, including two British Academy Television Awards and three Golden Globes, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and six Primetime Emmy Awar…
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Born 13 October 1971 · Q29055
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2026· 13 entries
“I would like to dedicate this award to you, Mel Gibson. Melvin, it is you, not me, who should receive this GQ award for anti-Jew warrior of the year.”
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“and to reconcile that with being famous is a hard thing.”
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“I would swap it for Jamaica.”
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“dramatic demonstration of how racism feeds on dumb conformity, as much as rabid bigotry”
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“Borat essentially works as a tool. By himself being anti-Semitic, he lets people lower their guard and expose their own prejudice.”
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“Did it reveal that [the cheering audience] were anti-Semitic? Perhaps. But maybe it just revealed that they were indifferent to anti-Semitism.”
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“When I was in university, there was this major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw, who said,”
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“People really let down their guard with [Borat] because they”
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PRIMETIMER: Sacha Baron Cohen reportedly in talks to play Mephisto in Marvel’s Ghost Rider
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Variety: Sacha Baron Cohen Revives Ali G at Wimbledon Ahead of New Film — and Tries Selling Weed on Center Court
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Public attention spiked: 37,406 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.4× the usual 8,454, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Interceptor: Reverting non-constructive edits by ~2026-31158-58
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Baron Cohen starred alongside Rosamund Pike in Ladies First, a comedy about a male chauvinist who finds himself transported to a matriarchal society
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2025· 3 entries
Page Six: Sacha Baron Cohen joked about his ‘midlife crisis’ before romancing a model half his age
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Page Six: Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher’s $75M divorce going ‘pretty smoothly’ despite reports exes are at war: source
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On 13 June 2025, both Baron Cohen and Fisher announced that they had finalised their divorce, while stating that they remain friends.
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2024· 1 entry
In October 2024, Baron Cohen gave $500,000 to Save the Children and the International Rescue Committee to help support their work tackling a displacement crisis and famine in Sudan, and called for more aid to support the cause.
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2023· 2 entries
Was one of the actors to sign an open letter to President Biden calling for the release of all hostages taken by Hamas
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In August 2023 Baron Cohen spoke alongside Martin Luther King III and Al Sharpton at the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington.
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2021· 4 entries
Awarded Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2021).
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Awarded MTV Comedic Genius Award (2021).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2021).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2021).
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2020· 2 entries
In 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher partnered with Marc Benioff to send a planeload of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to National Health Service workers in the UK.
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At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher partnered with Marc Benioff to send a planeload of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to National Health Service workers in the UK
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2019· 2 entries
In 2019 Baron Cohen was awarded the Anti-Defamation League's International Leadership Award for opposing bigotry and prejudice.
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Baron Cohen was awarded the Anti-Defamation League's International Leadership Award for opposing bigotry and prejudice
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2018· 2 entries
The Times named him among the 30 best living comedians
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Former Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama sued Baron Cohen for $95 million relating to a mock interview in Who Is America
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2015· 1 entry
On 28 December 2015, Baron Cohen and his then wife, Australian actress Isla Fisher, gave £335,000 ($500,000) to Save the Children as part of a programme to vaccinate children in northern Syria against measles; they gave the same amount to the International Rescue Committee, also aimed at helping Syrian refugees.
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2013· 1 entry
Received the BAFTA Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy
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2012· 1 entry
Baron Cohen and his production company Four By Two Films signed a first-look deal with Paramount Pictures, and the deal was renewed in 2014 for three years and a two-film commitment
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2011· 7 entries
“I is here with the geezer who was the Secretary-General of the United Nations. His name be none other than my man, Boutros Boutros Boutros-Ghali.”
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“With all respect, why do you give crap countries a vote?”
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“Which is the funniest language? It's French, isn't it?”
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“Does this country really exist?”
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“Is it named after Michael Jordan?”
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“War! Huh? What is it good for? Well, for start? It sorts out who is the strongest out of the two countries. Also, you get to see some amazing explosions. But, there is some people out there who not only don't enjoy the war, but they try to spoil the fun for everyone else. And those chickens is called the 'U.N.' Me went to New York to meet these player-haters.”
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“I is here standing outside the United Nations of Benetton. Which is where representatives from the three corners of the world come to end wars, international drug trafficking, and everything else that is a bit of a laugh.”
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2010· 1 entry
Baron Cohen guest-starred in The Simpsons episode, "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed", as Jakob, a quick-tempered Israeli tour guide
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2007· 8 entries
Awarded Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for Borat (2007).
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Awarded MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance for Borat (2007).
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Awarded Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for Borat (2007).
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Awarded MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss for Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2007).
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Awarded San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for Borat (2007).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Borat (2007).
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Sacha Baron Cohen audio interview with NPR's Robert Siegel
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Baron Cohen published a travel guide as Borat, with dual titles: Borat: Touristic Guidings To Minor Nation of U
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2004· 1 entry
Did the talk show circuit appearing as himself on Late Show with David Letterman, The Opie and Anthony Show, The Howard Stern Show, and others to promote the forthcoming season of his show on HBO
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2002· 1 entry
Ali G was the central character in the feature film Ali G Indahouse, in which he is elected to the British Parliament and foils a plot to bulldoze a community centre in his home town, Staines
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance for Da Ali G Show (2001).
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Baron Cohen met Australian actress Isla Fisher at a party in Sydney in 2001 and they became engaged in 2004.
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2000· 4 entries
Ali G offered Hamilton what was allegedly cannabis, which Hamilton accepted and smoked, creating some minor controversy in the British media
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Baron Cohen as Ali G appeared as the limousine driver in Madonna's 2000 video "Music", directed by Jonas Åkerlund, who was also responsible for directing the titles for Da Ali G Show
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And won the BAFTA for Best Comedy in the following year
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Played the part of Super Greg for a series of TV advertisements for Lee Jeans; the advertisements never aired, but the website for Super Greg created an internet sensation
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1996· 1 entry
Baron Cohen began presenting the youth chat programme F2F for Granada Talk TV and had a small role in an advertisement for McCain Microchips, as a chef in a commercial entitled "Ping Pong"
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1995· 1 entry
Channel 4 was planning a replacement for its series The Word, and disseminated an open call for new television presenters
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1971· 1 entry
Born 1971-10-13.
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