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Born 13 October 1971. Stand-up comedian, actor, writer and voice artist.

Biography

He was born in London into a Jewish family. His grandfather is a Holocaus surviver and his maternal grandmother lives in Haifa, Israel. He has two brothers, Erran, who works as a composer and contributed to several films of Baron Cohen, and Amnon. Simon Baron Cohen who is a worldwide autism researcher is his cousin.

Sasha Baron Cohen started his education at Hertfordshire in St Columba’s College Prep school and later in private school Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School. In search of his faith and roots he continued his study for one year in Israel at the Rosh Hanikra Kibbutz. Later he studied history at the University of Cambridge writing his thesis on Jewish involvement in the American Civil Rights movement. At Cambridge University he started to act in different plays and also had performances in Jewish theatre.

Cohen is most famous for his fictional unusual characters such as Ali G, Borat, Brüno and Admiral General Aladeen. These characters interact with people in a way that they are being set up for comic situations and make fun of themselves taking the characters as real persons. As soon as people became too familiar with his characters he retired them.

He was nominated for different awards. The most important ones are several Emmy nominations, a nomination for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay and a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his work in the film Borat: Cultural Learning of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Characters

Ali G

Alistair Leslie Graham nicknamed Ali G was born in a Council Estate. He has four siblings. At the age of fifteen and his mother giving birth to another child he decided to live with his grandmother. Negative point of view of the world and indecorousness are main attributes of this character.

Borat Sadiyev

Borat Sadiyev was born from a nine years old mother in the village of Kuzcek in Kazakhstan on 17 February 1972. His father Boltok is the famous rapist in the town. His older sister Natalya is a Prostitute and according to Borat the number four best one in Kazakhstan and his younger brother Bilo is mentally handicapped. He has three sons, Huey Lewis, Biram and Bilak. Borat is famous for being ethnocentric and pure Kazakh journalist and broadcaster.

Brüno Gehard

Brüno Gehard from Austria is a 19 year old gay fashion show presenter. He can’t help himself from insulting unfashionable people. He speaks English with a strong German accent. Mostly he wears tight pants and special shirts which show his chest without sleeves.

Admiral General Aladeen

His most recent character is Admiral General Aladeen, a powerful dictator of the Republic of Wadiya (North Africa). His guardians consist of only women and never let the oil of Wadiya be sold. He works on nuclear weapons development and he hates western countries.

Performer versus Characters

Sacha Baron Cohen mostly showed up in public with the personality of his characters which sometimes leads to confusion in the media. Two times he has presented the MTV Europe Music Awards, one time in 2001 as Ali G and one time in 2005 as Borat. In this time Hungarian news wire agency MTI reported that the host was “Borat Sagdiyev”. He appeared only one time out of his character in 2006 for the British Comedy Awards, because “Borat was a guest of honour at the Holocaust denial conference in Tehran.”

Personal Quotes

“Borat is based actually on a guy I met in southern Russia. I can’t remember his name. He was a doctor. The Moment I met him I was totally crying. He was a hysterically funny guy, albei totally unintentionally.” (source: http://suite101.com/article/borat-a29203)

“I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his quote was, ‘The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.’ I know it’s not very funny being a comedian talking about Holocaust, but I think it’s just an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. The just had to be apathetic.” (source: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2006/11/sacha_baron_coh.html)

“I've been in a bizarre situation, where a country has declared me as its number-one enemy. It's inherently a comic situation. I mean, it's always risky when you don't go down the normal route. I wish I would've been there at the briefing that Bush got about who I am, who Borat is. It would have had to be great.” (source: http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0056187/quotes)

“I think that, essentially, I'm a private person, and to reconcile that with being famous is a hard thing. So I've been trying to have my cake and eat it too - to have my character be famous yet still lead a normal life where I'm not trapped by fame and recognisability.” (source: http://www.movies.ie/interviews/interview_with_sacha_baron_cohen_for_bruno_)

“It's wonderful that the films are successful, but every new person who sees the movie is one less person I can be Borat or Bruno with again, so finishing a movie means having to say goodbye. Admitting that you're never going to play the character again is like saying goodbye to a loved one. And that's hard.” (source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1200145/Sacha-Baron-Cohen-Its-sad-I-kill-Bruno.html)

[on a scene in Hugo] “So I have a bath with the dog. What happens under the bubbles is our business. It seems to me that Marty (Scorsese) makes films for himself. He is an artist. And he's one of the last remaining artists out there, and I think we should respect that.” (source: http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0056187/quotes)

Sources

http://movies.yahoo.com/person/sacha-baron-cohen/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056187/

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1559883,00.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_G

http://mitbruno.com/bruno-news/whoisbruno.php

http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmitbruno.com%2Fbruno-news%2Ffunkyzeit-mit-bruno.php&ei=I33cT6bMKsnftAaX8syqDQ&usg=AFQjCNFipyHoTUuIQBCpySSjo9aPOef4IA

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6177591.stm

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-Born 13 October 1971. British stand-up comedian, actor, writer, voice artist and comedian. He is most widely known for his portrayal of unorthodox fictional characters: Ali G, Borat, Brüno and Admiral General Aladeen. In his routines, Baron Cohen's characters interact with unsuspecting people who do not realize they are being set up for comic situations and self-revealing ridicule.
+Born 13 October 1971. Stand-up comedian, actor, writer and voice artist.
-Baron Cohen was named Best Newcomer at the 1999 British Comedy Awards for ''The 11 O'Clock Show'', and since then, his work has been further recognised with two BAFTA Awards for ''Da Ali G Show'', several Emmy nominations, a nomination for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay and a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his work in the feature film ''Borat: Cultural Learning of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan''.
+== Biography ==
-After the release of the movie Borat, Baron Cohen stated that because the public had become too familiar with the characters, he would retire Borat and Ali G. Similarly, after the release of ''Brüno'', Baron Cohen has stated he would also retire the title Character.
+He was born in London into a Jewish family. His grandfather is a Holocaus surviver and his maternal grandmother lives in Haifa, Israel. He has two brothers, Erran, who works as a composer and contributed to several films of Baron Cohen, and Amnon. Simon Baron Cohen who is a worldwide autism researcher is his cousin.
-'''Family'''
+Sasha Baron Cohen started his education at Hertfordshire in St Columba’s College Prep school and later in private school Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School. In search of his faith and roots he continued his study for one year in Israel at the Rosh Hanikra Kibbutz. Later he studied history at the University of Cambridge writing his thesis on Jewish involvement in the American Civil Rights movement. At Cambridge University he started to act in different plays and also had performances in Jewish theatre.
-The man of many international faces was born in London on October 13, 1971, to parents who hailed from Israel and Wales. Sacha, the grandson of Holocaust survivor  is the second of three sons, with elder brother Erran and younger brother Amnon. His family is Jewish. His maternal grandmother who  lives in Haifa, Israel, trained as a ballet dancer in Germany. Erran is a composer and has worked on several of Baron Cohen's films. Internationally renowned autism researcher Simon Baron-Cohen is his cousin.
+Cohen is most famous for his fictional unusual characters such as Ali G, Borat, Brüno and Admiral General Aladeen. These characters interact with people in a way that they are being set up for comic situations and make fun of themselves taking the characters as real persons. As soon as people became too familiar with his characters he retired them.
-'''Education'''
+He was nominated for different awards. The most important ones are several Emmy nominations, a nomination for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay and a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his work in the film ''Borat: Cultural Learning of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.''
-Baron Cohen first attended St Columba's College Prep school, St Albans, Hertfordshire, before moving on to attend Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, a private school in Elstree, Hertfordshire, near London. He later spent a year at the Rosh Hanikra Kibbutz in Israel learning more about his roots and faith. He went on to the University of Cambridge, entering Christ College, where he read history under Niall Ferguson and wrote his dissertation on Jewish involvement in the American Civil Rights movement, with emphasis on the 1964 murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in Mississippi. At the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club, Baron Cohen acted in plays such as ''Fiddler on the Roof'' (in which he played Tevye) and ''Cyrano de Bergerac''. While at Cambridge, he performed in Habonim Dror Jewish theatre performances.
+== Characters ==
+===Ali G===
-'''Characters'''
+Alistair Leslie Graham nicknamed Ali G was born in a Council Estate. He has four siblings. At the age of fifteen and his mother giving birth to another child he decided to live with his grandmother. Negative point of view of the world and indecorousness are main attributes of this character.
+===Borat Sadiyev===
-Ali G
+Borat Sadiyev was born from a nine years old mother in the village of Kuzcek in Kazakhstan on 17 February 1972. His father Boltok is the famous rapist in the town. His older sister Natalya is a Prostitute and according to Borat the number four best one in Kazakhstan and his younger brother Bilo is mentally handicapped. He has three sons, Huey Lewis, Biram and Bilak. Borat is famous for being ethnocentric and pure Kazakh journalist and broadcaster.
-Ali G (born Alistair Leslie Graham), a boorish, uneducated, faux-streetwise poseur with a deeply stereotypical view of the world was born on a Council Estate to mother Tina. He has an older sister and an older brother. He has a younger sister and other younger siblings. When Ali was fifteen he went to live with his grandmother when his mother had another baby and there was no room for him and his older brother and sister, who went to live with their father. Ali's baby brothers are called Rory, Jamie and Guy.
+===Brüno Gehard===
-Borat Sadiyev
+Brüno Gehard from Austria is a 19 year old gay fashion show presenter. He can’t help himself from insulting unfashionable people. He speaks English with a strong German accent. Mostly he wears tight pants and special shirts which show his chest without sleeves.
-Borat (born 17 February 1972) is a racist, misogynistic, antiziganist, and genuine Kazakh journalist and broadcaster. He was born in the village of Kuzcek in Kazakhstan to Asimbala Sagdiyev and Boltok the Rapist, the town rapist who is also stated to be his maternal grandfather as well as his brother and uncle. His mother gave birth to him when she was nine years old. He has a thirteen-year-old (born 1994) son named Huey Lewise and twelve–year–old (born 1995) twin boys named Biram and Bilak. He has an older sister named Natalya (who he has claimed at different times to be “the number four best prostitute in Kazakhstan”) and a younger brother named Bilo (who he describes as being mentally retarded, with hair all over his face and entire body).
+===Admiral General Aladeen===
-Brüno Gehard
+His most recent character is Admiral General Aladeen, a powerful dictator of the Republic of Wadiya (North Africa). His guardians consist of only women and never let the oil of Wadiya be sold. He works on nuclear weapons development and he hates western countries.
-He is a 19-year-old, gay, Austrian fashion show presenter who just can't tolerate unfashionable people and would gladly put them onto a train to Auschwitz. He speaks in a high pitch moany voice in English with his German accent, he will always throw in a German slang term probably from the hardcore gay scene or Austrian youth.
+== Performer versus Characters ==
-Brüno dresses in a tight fitting edgy outfit showing his arms and maybe his midriff if the seasonal fashion allows it. If you don’t meet his high fashion standards he will look down on you like a piece of dirt and won’t hesitate to throw an insult your way.
-Admiral General Aladeen
+Sacha Baron Cohen mostly showed up in public with the personality of his characters which sometimes leads to confusion in the media. Two times he has presented the MTV Europe Music Awards, one time in 2001 as Ali G and one time in 2005 as Borat. In this time Hungarian news wire agency MTI reported that the host was “Borat Sagdiyev”.
+He appeared only one time out of his character in 2006 for the British Comedy Awards, because “Borat was a guest of honour at the Holocaust denial conference in Tehran.”
-Admiral General Hafez Aladeen is a dictator of the Republic of Wadiya (North Africa), who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country. He is a childish, lecherous, anti-western and anti-Semitic despot who surrounds himself with female bodyguards, refuses to allow Wadiyan oil to be sold internationally and is working on developing nuclear weapons.
+== Personal Quotes ==
-Performer versus Characters
-Baron Cohen has often been confused with the identity of one of his characters. When he posed as Borat to host the MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon (He has twice presented the MTV Europe Music Awards, first as Ali G on 8 November 2001, in Frankfurt and then as Borat on 3 November 2005 in Lisbon, Portugal)  the central Hungarian news wire agency MTI reported that the host was “Borat Sagdiyev”.
-Baron Cohen appeared out of character to accept an award at the British Comedy Awards in December 2006. He said at the time that Borat could not make it to the awards as “he’s guest of honor at the Holocaust denial conference in Tehran”, referring to the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust.
-Personal Quotes [sources?? have to be given after each individual quote!!]
 “Borat is based actually on a guy I met in southern Russia. I can’t remember his name. He was a doctor. The Moment I met him I was totally crying. He was a hysterically funny guy, albei totally unintentionally.” (source: http://suite101.com/article/borat-a29203)
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 “It's wonderful that the films are successful, but every new person who sees the movie is one less person I can be Borat or Bruno with again, so finishing a movie means having to say goodbye. Admitting that you're never going to play the character again is like saying goodbye to a loved one. And that's hard.” (source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1200145/Sacha-Baron-Cohen-Its-sad-I-kill-Bruno.html)
-[on a scene in ''Hugo'') “So I have a bath with the dog. What happens under the bubbles is our business. It seems to me that Marty (Scorsese) makes films for himself. He is an artist. And he's one of the last remaining artists out there, and I think we should respect that.” (source: http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0056187/quotes)
+[on a scene in ''Hugo''] “So I have a bath with the dog. What happens under the bubbles is our business. It seems to me that Marty (Scorsese) makes films for himself. He is an artist. And he's one of the last remaining artists out there, and I think we should respect that.” (source: http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0056187/quotes)
-Sources:
+'''Sources'''
 http://movies.yahoo.com/person/sacha-baron-cohen/