Sacha Baron Cohen

 
 
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    Sacha Baron Cohen and Ed Sanders in ‘Sweeney Todd’
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    Sacha Baron Cohen with a young Borat look-a-like fan in LA!
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    More from backstage it's Sacha, Robin & Mike!
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    Sacha Baron Cohen, Cameron and Mike Meyers posed backstage too
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    Sacha Baron Cohen gives Will Ferrell a peck on the cheek
 

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January 5, 2013

Sacha Baron Cohen: Borat & Bruno Prepared Me For Les Miserables

Taking on the iconic role of Monsieur Thenardier in “Les Miserables” may sound daunting to actors and fans alike, but Sacha Baron Cohen (who plays the thieving inn keeper in Tom Hooper’s big screen adaptation) says years of making mockumentary type films like “Borat” and “Bruno” made tackling his new scripted role a piece of cake.

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Controversial comedy characters like the misogynistic, anti-Semitic, Pamela Anderson-obsessed “Borat,” and “Bruno,” the gay Austrian fashion personality… have made Sacha Baron Cohen practically a household name in the first decade of the 21st-Century. The British-born comic, who actually studied history, rarely makes public appearances as himself, preferring to stay in character during interviews and public events.

His first famous character, “Ali G,” is a fake news interviewer who has been turned loose on some of the most unsuspecting names in the world, including Donald Trump, Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan and Boutros Boutros-Ghali. The joke is always the same - they don’t know he’s a comic, but the results are unpredictably hilarious.

  • Name: Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Birthdate: October 13, 1971
  • Birthplace: London, England

fun facts

  • Sacha’s first daughter, Olive, was born on October 17, 2007, with fiancée Isla Fisher

  • Sacha won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy for “Borat.”

  • Sacha’s Borat character is virulently anti-Semitic, but the actor is actually an observant Jew in real life.

  • Sacha recently announced he was retiring the characters of the clueless Kazakh journalist Borat, as well as his alter ego, aspiring rapper Ali G.