Sacha Baron Cohen

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Sacha Baron Cohen is a British actor and comedian, known for portraying four unorthodox fictional characters

Oct 13, 1971

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: October 13, 1971
  • Nationality: British
  • Famous: Cambridge University, Film & Theater Personalities, Actors, Comedians, Writers, ENTP
  • Spouses: Isla Fisher
  • Siblings: Amnon Baron Cohen, Erran Baron Cohen
  • Known as: Sacha Noam Baron Cohen
  • Childrens: Elula Lottie Miriam Cohen, Olive Baron Cohen

Sacha Baron Cohen born at

Hammersmith

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Birth Place

He met English-Australian actress, Isla Fisher, in 2002 and got engaged to her in 2004. The couple welcomed their first baby, daughter Olive in 2007, after which Fisher converted to Judaism.

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Personal Life

The couple married in a traditional Jewish ceremony in 2010 in Paris, France. They later had two more kids – daughter Elula Lottie Miriam (2010), and son Montgomery Moses Brian (2015).

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Personal Life

Sacha Noam Baron Cohen was born on October 13, 1971, in Hammersmith, West London, as the youngest of three sons, to a Welsh clothing store owner, Gerald Baron Cohen, and Israeli movement instructor, Daniella Naomi Weiser.

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Childhood & Early Life

He attended an independent school, The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys School, in Elstree, Hertfordshire, and later went to Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, to study history.

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Childhood & Early Life

With immense interest in performing arts from a young age, he joined the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club and participated in various plays, such as ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ and ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’.

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Childhood & Early Life

He took up modeling for various fashion magazines for a short time after graduating. Thereafter which he hosted a weekly programme on a satellite TV station during the early 1990s.

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Career

He auditioned for the profile of a presenter on Channel 4 by sending his tape as an Albanian television reporter in 1995. He was selected and worked on various ‘youth TV’ projects.

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Career

He started hosting ‘F2F’, a youth chat programme aired on Granada Talk TV, in 1996, besides appearing in a McCain Microchips advertisement.

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In 1998, he appeared on the late night comedy show ‘The 11 O’Clock Show, broadcast on Channel 4, as the white uneducated, boorish aspiring rapper ‘Ali G’, which brought him into limelight.

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As a hip-hop journalist, donning a colorful tracksuit, tinted sunglasses and designer skullcap, he interviewed politicians and celebrities with his weird questions.

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His stint as Ali G on his 2000 show ‘Da Ali G Show’ got him recognition across Britain, and won him several accolades in the form of awards. Eventually, he featured in Madonna’s 2000 video for her single ‘Music’ as a limousine driver.

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Major Works

He starred in the 2006 blockbuster mocumentary film ‘Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan’, playing the lead role of Borat, which won him several awards and nominations.

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Major Works