Sacha Baron Cohen

Sacha Noam Baron Cohen born 13 October 1971 is an English actor comedian writer and producer He is best known for his creation and portrayal of the fictional satirical characters Ali G Borat Sagdiyev Brüno Gehard and Admiral General Aladeen He adopts a variety of accents and guises for his characters and interacts with unsuspecting subjects who do not realise they have been set up At the 2012 British Comedy Awards he received the Outstanding Achievement Award and accepted the award incharacter as Ali G In 2013 he received the BAFTA Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy In 2018 The Times named him among the 30 best living comedians Baron Cohen has produced andor performed in comedic films such as Ali G Indahouse 2002 Borat 2006 and its sequel Borat Subsequent Moviefilm 2020 Talladega Nights The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 2006 Brüno 2009 and The Dictator 2012 He has also appeared in dramatic films including Tim Burtons Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 Martin Scorseses Hugo 2011 Tom Hoopers Les Misérables 2012 and Aaron Sorkins The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020 He made a cameo as a BBC News anchor in Anchorman 2 The Legend Continues 2013 In 2016 he appeared in the comedy film Grimsby and costarred in the fantasy sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass His voice acting roles include King Julien XIII in the Madagascar film series 20052012 and Uncle Ugo in Luca 2021 Beginning his career in television Baron Cohen was named Best Newcomer at the 1999 British Comedy Awards for The 11 OClock Show He created and starred in Da Ali G Show 20002004 receiving two BAFTA Awards His next television project Who Is America 2018 for Showtime saw him nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Television Series Musical or Comedy In 2019 he portrayed Eli Cohen in the limited series The Spy for OCS and Netflix for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Miniseries or Television Film Baron Cohen has two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay three Golden Globe Award nominations resulting in two wins for Best Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his work in the feature film Borat and its sequel In 2021 he received Academy Award Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for his performance as Abbot Abbie Hoffman in The Trial of the Chicago 7 He has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Actors Branch since 2008 After the release of Borat Baron Cohen said he would retire Borat and Ali G because the public had become too familiar with the characters After the release of Brüno he said he would retire that character However the character of Borat was brought back for the 2020 sequel Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Description above from the Wikipedia article Sacha Baron Cohen licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia