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Sacha Baron Cohen was born on the 13th of October 1971 in the Hammersmith area of London, into a Jewish family. His father Gerald Baron Cohen was born in London to a Belarusian Jewish family, and his mother Daniella was born in British Mandatory Palestine in 1939.
Sacha Baron Cohen has won two British Academy Television Awards, three Golden Globes, and the BAFTA Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy in 2013. He has also received nominations for three Academy Awards and six Primetime Emmy Awards.
Baron Cohen first developed the Borat character, then known as Alexi Krickler, during short skits on the Granada Talk TV programme F2F in 1996-1997. The character remained dormant while Baron Cohen focused on Ali G, before being revived in segments of Da Ali G Show and eventually the 2006 feature film.
Baron Cohen would arrive at the interview location dressed as Ali G while acting like an inconspicuous crew member. A separate man in a suit accompanied the group, leading the subject to believe that person would conduct the interview. Baron Cohen would then take the seat for what appeared to be a pre-interview run-through, only revealing himself as the actual interviewer moments before filming began.
Borat debuted at number one in the United States, taking an estimated $26.4 million in just 837 theatres and averaging $31,600 per theatre in its opening weekend.
Baron Cohen attended St Columba's College in St Albans and then Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree. He studied history with a focus on antisemitism at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1993 with upper-second-class honours. His undergraduate thesis examined the role of Jewish activists in the American civil rights movement.