Sacha Baron Biography

Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - Sacha Baron Cohen, comedian

Birthdate: October 13, 1971

Birthplace: London, England

Sign: Libra

Sacha Noam Baron Cohen is the youngest of three sons of a Jewish family. He attended a private boys' school in Elstree, Hertfordshire and later on to Christ's College in Cambridge. He participated in plays at the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club, developing his acting skills further.

He started hosting a weekly program on Windsor cable television's local broadcasts in the early 1990s, but was fired when he aired a lewd presentation for Valentine's Day. He sent an audition tape for Channel 4, wherein he played a fictional television reporter from Albania named Kristo. The producers of the series "The Word" saw a potential in him. The character was later developed as the more famous Borat from Kazakhstan.

In 1998, Baron Cohen had appeared in a 2-minute sketch on the Paramount Comedy Channel as the fictional fashion reporter Bruno. He then shot to fame as the idiotic Junglist Ali G, appearing on "The Eleven O'Clock Show" on Channel 4.

His character was given his own show, "Da Ali G Show," in 2000. As Ali G, he often had interviews with high profile celebrities and politicians such as astronaut Buzz Aldrin, writer Gore Vidal, and real estate tycoon Donald Trump.

Borat's feature film, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," debuted #1 at the U.S. box office. The mockumentary not only earned $26.4 million, a stunning feat for a film that opened in just 837 theaters, but also garnered several lawsuits from unsuspecting co-stars.

He won the 2007 Golden Globe for Best Actor in Musical or Comedy for the role.

Baron Cohen is currently shooting a film featuring his Bruno character entitled "Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt."

He is engaged to actress Isla Fisher. They have a daughter together named Olive, who was born in October 2007.