Sacha Baron Cohen#Filmography

Sacha Noam Baron Cohen{{cite web |title=Baron Cohen, Sacha |website=BFI Film & TV Database |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/837355 |access-date=2006-11-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070212031312/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/837355 |archive-date=2007-02-12 |url-status=dead }} was born into a British family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/sacha-baron-cohen-the-men-in-his-life-1675107.html |title=Sacha Baron Cohen: The men in his life |date=2009-04-27 |work=The Independent |access-date=2018-05-25 |quote=He was born in 1971, the youngest of three boys in a middle-class family from west London. |archive-date=2018-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702131623/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/sacha-baron-cohen-the-men-in-his-life-1675107.html |url-status=live}} in the Hammersmith area of London on 13 October 1971.{{cite news |url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/10/13/UPI-Almanac-for-Tuesday-Oct-13-2020/8431602465730|title= UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020 |work= United Press International |date= 13 October 2020 |access-date= 24 May 2021 |quote= ...Sacha Baron Cohen in 1971 (age 49)... |archive-date= 13 October 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201013125524/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/10/13/UPI-Almanac-for-Tuesday-Oct-13-2020/8431602465730 |url-status= live }} His mother, photographer Daniella (née Weiser), was born in British Mandatory Palestine in 1939.{{cite book|title=Sacha Baron Cohen: The Unauthorized Biography: From Cambridge to Kazakhstan|author=Tracy, K.|date=2007|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=9781429993937|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lqMEpeNCwL0C|page=10|access-date=22 November 2014}}{{Cite news|url=http://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/15104|title=The musical Baron Cohen brother comes into his own|last=Pfefferman|first=Naomi|date=13 July 2007|work=Jewish Journal|access-date=25 May 2018|archive-date=25 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525205042/http://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/15104|url-status=live}} His father, editor-turned-clothing store owner Gerald "Jerry" Baron Cohen (1932–2016), was born into a Belarusian Ashkenazi Jewish family in London and grew up in the Welsh town of Pontypridd.{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=106695556|title=An Interview With The Real Sacha Baron Cohen|date=16 July 2009|work=NPR|access-date=25 May 2018|quote=Sacha Baron Cohen: "I'd say that I'm very, very proud of my Jewish identity. I'm proud to be a Jew"|archive-date=26 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180526040951/https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=106695556|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://nation.cymru/culture/borat-da-sacha-baron-cohens-welsh-roots-revealed|title='Borat da!' Sacha Baron Cohen's Welsh roots revealed|date=22 October 2020|website=Nation.Cymru|access-date=22 April 2021|archive-date=22 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422071104/https://nation.cymru/culture/borat-da-sacha-baron-cohens-welsh-roots-revealed|url-status=live}}{{cite journal|url=http://www.momentmag.com/moment/issues/2010/08/Baron-Cohen.html|title=The Provocative Baron Cohen Clan|journal=Moment|date=July–August 2010|access-date=31 July 2010|first=Sarah|last=Glazer|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726213426/http://www.momentmag.com/moment/issues/2010/08/Baron-Cohen.html|archive-date=26 July 2010}}{{Cite book|title=Who's who in Finance and Industry| volume =32|publisher=Marquis Who's Who|year=2001|page=38}}{{Cite news|last=Dowd|first=Maureen|date=2020-10-26|title=Sacha Baron Cohen: This Time He's Serious|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/style/sacha-baron-cohen-maureen-dowd-interview.html|access-date=2020-10-30|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=17 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017091411/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/style/sacha-baron-cohen-maureen-dowd-interview.html|url-status=live}} Baron Cohen's paternal grandfather, Morris Moses Cohen, added "Baron" to his surname.{{cite news| title =Valley G's wicked Welsh rootz| work =BBC News| date =28 March 2002| url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1898402.stm| access-date =22 November 2006| archive-date =25 November 2002| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20021125023155/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1898402.stm| url-status =live}} His maternal grandmother, Liesel (née Levi), lived in Haifa and trained as a ballet dancer in Germany before fleeing the Nazis in 1936.{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article1294842.ece |title=Borat's easy ... being me is odd |work=The Times |last=White |first=Roland |date=21 January 2007 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070619135236/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article1294842.ece |archive-date=19 June 2007 |url-status=dead |access-date=12 July 2018 }}{{cite magazine|last=Strauss|first=Neil|title=Sacha Baron Cohen: The Man Behind the Mustache|magazine=Rolling Stone|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/the-man-behind-the-mustache-20061130|date=30 November 2006|access-date=25 May 2018|archive-date=25 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525204457/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/the-man-behind-the-mustache-20061130|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last = Rayner|first = Jay|title = Mutha of invention|work = The Guardian|location = London|date = 24 February 2002|url = http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,656096,00.html|access-date = 6 November 2006|archive-date = 9 January 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080109191159/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,656096,00.html|url-status = live}} He has two older brothers: Erran, a composer with whom he often collaborates, and Amnon.{{cite news |author=Jay Rayner |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2002/feb/24/foodanddrink.comedy |title=Mutha of invention |work=The Observer |location=London |date=4 November 2005 |access-date=7 August 2010 |archive-date=21 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421150932/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2002/feb/24/foodanddrink.comedy |url-status=live }} His cousins include autism researcher Sir Simon Baron-Cohen, playwright Dan Baron Cohen, and filmmaker Ash Baron-Cohen.{{cite news|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2007/02/baron-cohen-autism-children|title=Nick Cohen meets Simon Baron-Cohen, Cambridge professor of developmental psychopathology|work=New Statesman|date=26 February 2007|access-date=1 November 2010|archive-date=18 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618102502/https://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2007/02/baron-cohen-autism-children|url-status=live}}

Baron Cohen was first educated at the independent Catholic St Columba's College in St Albans, before moving on to attend the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree.{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jun/07/sacha-baron-cohen-bruno-profile | title = Sacha Baron Cohen: The comic who is always in your face | author = Andrew Anthony | newspaper = The Observer | archive-date = 11 November 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111111170925/http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jun/07/sacha-baron-cohen-bruno-profile | date = 7 June 2009 | url-status=dead | df = dmy-all }} He then studied history with a focus on antisemitism at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1993 with upper-second-class honours.{{cite web |url=http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/alumni/distinguished-alumni/baron_cohen|publisher=Christ's College, Cambridge |title=Alumni: Distinguished Members: Sacha Baron Cohen |archive-date=13 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013202413/http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/alumni/distinguished-alumni/baron_cohen|url-status=dead }}[http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/alumni/distinguished-alumni/baron_cohen/ Christ's College – Alumni – Sacha Baron Cohen] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013202413/http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/alumni/distinguished-alumni/baron_cohen|date=13 October 2011}} 2008 Christ's College As an undergraduate, he wrote his thesis on the role of Jewish activists in the American civil rights movement.{{Citation|title=ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen at Never Is Now 2019| date=21 November 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM|language=en|access-date=24 November 2019|archive-date=13 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113210507/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM|url-status=live}} He was a member of the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club, where he performed in shows such as Fiddler on the Roof and Cyrano de Bergerac, as well as acted in shows with the Labour youth movement Habonim Dror.[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/sep/10/comedy Sacha Baron Cohen: Our man from Kazakhstan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507041304/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/sep/10/comedy |date=7 May 2021 }}. The Observer. 1 September 2006. He played the cello while growing up, and made his television debut as a cellist on Fanfare for Young Musicians.

Baron Cohen grew up as a fan of Monty Python and Peter Cook, but his greatest comedic influence was Peter Sellers, whom he saw as "this incredibly realistic actor, who was also hilarious and who managed to bridge the gap between comedy and satire".{{cite news |title=Sacha Baron Cohen: The comic who is always in your face |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jun/07/sacha-baron-cohen-bruno-profile |access-date=12 October 2019 |newspaper=The Guardian |archive-date=20 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220114541/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jun/07/sacha-baron-cohen-bruno-profile |url-status=live }}{{cite news|title=Sacha Baron Cohen is the Peter Sellers of our age|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/grimsby/sacha-baron-cohen-peter-sellers-characters|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/grimsby/sacha-baron-cohen-peter-sellers-characters|archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=30 May 2016}}{{cbignore}} Known for portraying a wide range of comic characters using different accents and guises, Sellers was referred to by Baron Cohen as "the most seminal force in shaping [his] early ideas on comedy".Saunders, Robert A. (2009). The Many Faces of Sacha Baron Cohen: Politics, Parody, and the Battle Over Borat. p. 22. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. After leaving university, Baron Cohen worked for a time as a fashion model. By the early 1990s, he was hosting a weekly programme on Windsor cable television's local broadcasts with Carol Kirkwood, who later became a BBC weather forecaster. In 1995, Channel 4 was planning a replacement for its series The Word, and disseminated an open call for new television presenters. Baron Cohen sent in a tape of himself, which caught the attention of a producer. Baron Cohen hosted Pump TV from 1995 to 1996.

In 1996, Baron Cohen began presenting the youth chat programme F2F for Granada Talk TV and had a small role in an advertisement for McCain Microchips, as a chef in a commercial entitled "Ping Pong".{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTwtvzqPgmY| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211028/QTwtvzqPgmY| archive-date=2021-10-28|title=McCain's Micro Chips Ping Pong TV Ad Commercial|date=20 May 2012|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} He took clown training in Paris, at the École Philippe Gaulier, studying under master-clown Philippe Gaulier. Of his former pupil, Gaulier says: "He was a good clown, full of spirit"Cavendish, Dominic (12 March 2001). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4722146/From-the-sublime-to-the-ridicule.html "From the sublime to the ridicule"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403223521/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4722146/From-the-sublime-to-the-ridicule.html |date=3 April 2018 }}. The Daily Telegraph while Baron Cohen remarks of Gaulier, "Without him, I really do doubt whether I would have had any success in my field".{{Cite web|title=From the sublime to the ridicule|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4722146/From-the-sublime-to-the-ridicule.html|access-date=2020-10-20|website=The Telegraph|date=12 March 2001 |language=en-GB|archive-date=3 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403223521/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4722146/From-the-sublime-to-the-ridicule.html|url-status=live}} He left TV journalist Rob Burley a note reading "Dear Rob, good luck baby, have fun and things, see you soon, Sacha.", when Burley left the programme.{{Cite book |last=Burley |first=Rob |title=Why is this Lying Bastard lying to me? |publisher=Mudlark |year=2023 |isbn=978-0-00-854251-1 |pages=91}} Baron Cohen made his first feature film appearance in the British comedy The Jolly Boys' Last Stand (2000). Also in 2000, he played the part of Super Greg for a series of TV advertisements for Lee Jeans; the advertisements never aired, but the website for Super Greg created an internet sensation.{{Cite news | last=Lauerman | first=Kerry | title=It's Borat Day! | work=Salon | date=3 November 2006 | series=Video Dog | url=http://archive.salon.com/ent/video_dog/comedy/2006/11/03/supergreg/index.html | access-date=12 August 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707020754/http://archive.salon.com/ent/video_dog/comedy/2006/11/03/supergreg/index.html | archive-date=7 July 2009 | df=dmy-all }}

{{Main|Ali G}}

File:AliG-Harv.jpg as Ali G at Harvard in 2004]]

Baron Cohen appeared during two-minute sketches as his fashion reporter Brüno on the Paramount Comedy Channel during 1998. He shot to fame with his comic character Ali G, a fictional stereotype of a British suburban male "chav" who imitates urban black British hip hop culture and British Jamaican culture, as well as speaking in rude boy-style English with borrowed expressions from Jamaican Patois. Hailing from Staines (a suburban town in Surrey, to the west of London), Ali G started appearing on the British television show The 11 O'Clock Show on Channel 4, which first aired on 8 September 1998. A year after the première of the show, GQ named Baron Cohen comedian of the year.Robert A. Saunders (2009) [https://books.google.com/books?id=U3G5hUhjAdUC&dq=sacha+baron+cohen++-+1999+british+comedy+award++-+best+newcomer&pg=PA41 The Many Faces of Sacha Baron Cohen: Politics, Parody, and the Battle Over Borat] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231007140712/https://books.google.com/books?id=U3G5hUhjAdUC&dq=sacha+baron+cohen++-+1999+british+comedy+award++-+best+newcomer&pg=PA41 |date=7 October 2023 }} Rowman & Littlefield, p.41. Retrieved 27 February 2012 He won Best Newcomer at the 1999 British Comedy Awards, and at the British Academy Television Awards he was nominated for Best British Entertainment Performance.

Da Ali G Show began in 2000, and won the BAFTA for Best Comedy in the following year.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1328946.stm The 2001 Bafta award winners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312021536/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1328946.stm |date=12 March 2012 }} BBC. Retrieved 27 February 2012 Also in 2000, Baron Cohen as Ali G appeared as the limousine driver in Madonna's 2000 video "Music", directed by Jonas Åkerlund, who was also responsible for directing the titles for Da Ali G Show. Baron Cohen is a supporter of the UK charity telethon Comic Relief, which is broadcast on the BBC, and as Ali G interviewed David Beckham and wife Victoria in 2001.{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P842Tmi6lrc |title=Ali-G Interviews Posh Spice and David Beckham |publisher=Youtube.com |date=26 February 2006 |access-date=17 January 2012 |archive-date=18 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118224202/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P842Tmi6lrc |url-status=live }}

In a 2001 Channel 4 poll Ali G was ranked eighth on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters.{{cite web |url=http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greatest/tv_characters/results.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090531160558/http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greatest/tv_characters/results.html |archive-date=31 May 2009 |title=100 Greatest TV Characters |access-date=26 May 2019 |publisher=Channel 4}}{{cite web |url=http://www.itnsource.com/en/shotlist/ITVProgs/2001/05/05/Y22090001|title=100 Greatest ... (100 Greatest TV Characters (Part 1)) |publisher=ITN Source |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221233837/http://www.itnsource.com/en/shotlist/ITVProgs/2001/05/05/Y22090001|archive-date=21 February 2015 |access-date=13 June 2014}} In 2002, Ali G was the central character in the feature film Ali G Indahouse, in which he is elected to the British Parliament and foils a plot to bulldoze a community centre in his home town, Staines.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/03/12/alig_in_da_house_2002_review.shtml Films – reviews: Ali G Indahouse (2002)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009231702/http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/03/12/alig_in_da_house_2002_review.shtml |date=9 October 2020 }} BBC. Retrieved 27 February 2012 His television show was exported to the United States in 2003, with new episodes set there, for HBO.

At the 2012 British Comedy Awards, 13 years after winning Best Newcomer at the 1999 Comedy Awards, Baron Cohen accepted the Outstanding Achievement Award from Sir Ben Kingsley in the guise of Ali G, and stated: "I is grown up now. I ain't living in my nan's house any more. I is living in her garage."{{cite news|title=Sacha Baron Cohen honoured at British Comedy Awards|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20696034|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-date=21 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421150935/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20696034|url-status=live}} In 2013, he received the BAFTA Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24030122 "Sacha Baron Cohen to get Bafta LA comedy award"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421150935/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24030122 |date=21 April 2018 }}. BBC. Retrieved 7 January 2014

Ali G's interviews with notable figures (especially politicians) gained notoriety partly because the subjects were not aware that Ali G, rather than being a real interviewer, was a comedic character. According to Rolling Stone magazine, Baron Cohen would always enter the interview area dressed as Ali G, carrying equipment while acting like an inconspicuous crew member. The crew would be accompanied by a man in a suit and tie, leading the subject to believe that this was the person who would interview them. Baron Cohen, as Ali G, would sit down to ask the interviewee some preliminary questions to give them the impression that this was a test run before the well-dressed man conducted the real interview; this continued until a few moments before the cameras started filming, revealing the suited man as the director and Ali G as the interviewer, granting Baron Cohen the element of surprise as the interviewee would be less likely to opt out of the interview so close to its start.{{cite magazine|last =Strauss|first =Neil|title =The man behind the mustache|magazine =Rolling Stone|date =14 November 2006|url =https://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/sacha_baron_cohen_the_real_borat_finally_speaks|access-date =14 August 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070102223451/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/sacha_baron_cohen_the_real_borat_finally_speaks|archive-date =2 January 2007|df =dmy-all}}

{{Main|Borat Sagdiyev}}

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The Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev was first developed for short skits on F2F on Granada Television in the UK that Baron Cohen presented in 1996–1997, with the character at this time being known as Alexi Krickler.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18105176 |title=Sacha Baron Cohen on mocking 'hilarious' Gaddafi |website=BBC News |date=18 May 2012 |access-date=19 October 2019 |archive-date=26 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326150300/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18105176 |url-status=live }} The character remained dormant while Baron Cohen concentrated on his Ali G persona, but with the subsequent success of Ali G, Baron Cohen revisited his Borat character. The character was featured in segments of Da Ali G Show.{{cite news |last1=Stewart |first1=Sara |title=Sacha Baron Cohen was nearly killed filming 'Bruno' |url=https://nypost.com/2016/03/03/sacha-baron-cohen-was-nearly-killed-filming-bruno|work=New York Post |date=3 March 2016 |access-date=21 October 2020 |archive-date=31 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031174730/https://nypost.com/2016/03/03/sacha-baron-cohen-was-nearly-killed-filming-bruno|url-status=live }} Borat's sense of humour derives from his mocking of society through outrageous sociocultural viewpoints, his deadpan violation of social taboos and use of vulgar language and behaviour.{{cite news |title=Sacha Baron Cohen: Our man from Kazakhstan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/sep/10/comedy |access-date=19 October 2019 |work=The Guardian |archive-date=7 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507041304/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/sep/10/comedy |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Guilt-free pleasures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2007/jan/03/comedy.television |access-date=19 October 2019 |work=The Guardian |archive-date=19 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019110803/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2007/jan/03/comedy.television |url-status=live }}

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, a feature film with Borat Sagdiyev at the centre, was screened at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and released in the United Kingdom on 2 November 2006, in the United States on 3 November 2006 and Australia 23 November 2006. The film follows Sagdiyev as he and his colleague Azamat Bagatov travel the US to produce a documentary about life in the country, as all the while Sagdiyev attempts to enter into marriage with celebrity Pamela Anderson. The film is a mockumentary which includes interviews with various Americans that poke fun at American culture, as well as sexism, racism, homophobia, antisemitism and jingoism. It debuted at the No. 1 spot in the US, taking in an estimated $26.4 million in just 837 theatres averaging $31,600 per theatre.{{cite news|title='Borat' takes U.S. by storm Finishes No. 1 with $26.4 mil on just 837 screens|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/borat-takes-us-by-storm-142051|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=9 October 2015|access-date=19 February 2020|archive-date=10 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200210082941/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/borat-takes-us-by-storm-142051|url-status=live}}

Baron Cohen won the 2007 Golden Globe for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy, his sixth such award. Although Borat was up for "Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy", the film lost to Dreamgirls. On 23 January 2007, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He shared his nomination with the film's co-writers, Ant Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips.

Aside from the comic elements of his characters, Baron Cohen's performances are interpreted by some as reflecting uncomfortable truths about his audience. He juxtaposes his own Jewish heritage with the anti-Semitism of his character Borat.{{cite web|url=http://www.borat.tv/video/Throw_the_Jew_Down_the_Well.mov|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060327094957/http://www.borat.tv/video/Throw_the_Jew_Down_the_Well.mov|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 March 2006|title=Borat}}

In 2007, Baron Cohen published a travel guide as Borat, with dual titles: Borat: Touristic Guidings To Minor Nation of U.S. and A. and Borat: Touristic Guidings To Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.{{cite book|title=Borat: touristic guidings to glorious nation of Kazakhstan : touristic guidings to minor nation of U. S. and A.|author=Ant Hines, Borat Sagdiyev and Sacha Baron Cohen|year=2007|publisher=Boxtree|isbn=978-0-7522-2661-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PCeuGAAACAAJ|access-date=4 March 2012|archive-date=6 April 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240406063815/https://books.google.com/books?id=PCeuGAAACAAJ|url-status=live}} On 21 December 2007, Baron Cohen announced he was retiring the character of Borat.{{cite web |agency=AFP |url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jtYR_WcA82BkzB8Zu5SmiHjLX8CQ |title=Comedian Cohen says he is killing off Borat |date=21 December 2007 |access-date=31 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711111924/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jtYR_WcA82BkzB8Zu5SmiHjLX8CQ |archive-date=11 July 2011 }} 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.{{cite news|date=21 December 2007|title=Borat and Ali G are dead for Sacha Baron Cohen|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|url=http://www.actressarchives.com/news/baron-cohen-borat-and-ali-g-are-dead-to-me|url-status=dead|access-date=15 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104072349/http://www.actressarchives.com/news/baron-cohen-borat-and-ali-g-are-dead-to-me|archive-date=4 November 2012}} After the release of Brüno, he said he would retire that character.[http://digitaljournal.com/article/247826 Entertainment Sacha Baron Cohen to shed Borat persona for good] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029105043/http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/247826 |date=29 October 2020 }} digitaljournal.com, 15 July 2009

The character was brought back on a 2018 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live and appears in the 2020 sequel Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, for which he won another Golden Globe Award, as well as the 2022 Kennedy Center Honors where he did a standup routine as Borat for the induction of U2.{{citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ShB0YWRrNs&t=2s|title=Borat honors U2 - 45th Kennedy Honors|date=29 December 2022|access-date=22 August 2023|archive-date=22 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822162945/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ShB0YWRrNs&t=2s|url-status=live}}

{{Main|Brüno Gehard}}

Another alter ego Sacha Baron Cohen performed as is "Brüno", a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion show presenter who often lures his unwitting subjects into making provocative statements and engaging in embarrassing behaviour, as well as leading them to contradict themselves, often in the same interview. Brüno's main comedic satire pertains to the vacuity and inanity of the fashion and clubbing world. Brüno asks the subjects to answer "yes or no" questions with either "Vassup" (What's up) or "Ich don't think so" (I don't think so); these are occasionally substituted with "Ach, ja!" (Ah yes!) or "Nicht, nicht" ("Nicht" means "no" or "not" in German). In one segment on Da Ali G Show, he encouraged his guest to answer questions with either "Keep them in the ghetto" or "Train to Auschwitz".

In May 2009, at the MTV Movie Awards, Baron Cohen appeared as Brüno wearing a white angel costume, a white jockstrap, white go-go boots, and white wings; and did an aerial stunt where he dropped from a height (using wires) onto Eminem. Baron Cohen landed with his face on Eminem's crotch and with his crotch in Eminem's face, prompting Eminem to exit the venue with fellow rappers D12. Eminem later admitted to staging the stunt with Baron Cohen.{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eminem-idUSTRE55313820090604 |title=Eminem admits Bruno encounter was a stunt |publisher=Reuters |date=4 June 2009 |access-date=6 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106154803/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eminem-idUSTRE55313820090604 |archive-date=6 November 2023 |url-status=live }}

After an intense bidding war that included such Hollywood powerhouses as DreamWorks, Sony, and 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures won and paid a reported $42.5 million for the film rights to a collection of interviews Baron Cohen performed as the character Brüno.{{cite news | work=Forbes | url=https://www.forbes.com/home/digitalentertainment/2006/11/13/borat-cohen-money-tech-media-cz_lg_1114borat.html | title=Borat is Rich...NOT | date=13 November 2006 | access-date=21 November 2006 | archive-date=24 January 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124142604/http://www.forbes.com/home/digitalentertainment/2006/11/13/borat-cohen-money-tech-media-cz_lg_1114borat.html | url-status=dead }} To create these interviews a number of shill companies and websites were created to draw potential interviewees by creating an illusion of legitimacy.{{cite news | url=http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0319092bruno1.html | title=Sacha Baron Cohen's Guerilla Tactics | date=19 March 2009 | access-date=20 March 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322074259/http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0319092bruno1.html | archive-date=22 March 2009 | url-status=dead }} The film was released in July 2009.

{{Further|The Dictator (2012 film)}}

Baron Cohen's 2012 film, The Dictator, was described by its press as "the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed".{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12240086 | work=BBC News | title=Sacha Baron Cohen to make film of 'Saddam Hussein book{{'-}} | date=20 January 2011 | access-date=21 June 2018 | archive-date=21 April 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421150923/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12240086 | url-status=live }} Baron Cohen played Admiral General Aladeen, a dictator from a fictional country called the Republic of Wadiya.{{cite web |url=https://www.empireonline.com/News/story.asp?nid=31198 |title=First Official Shot From The Dictator |publisher=Empireonline.com |access-date=17 January 2012 |archive-date=20 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020195545/http://www.empireonline.com/News/story.asp?nid=31198 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.republicofwadiya.com|title=The Dictator Trailer & Official Movie Site |publisher=Paramount Pictures |access-date=6 January 2012 |archive-date=7 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207011121/http://www.republicofwadiya.com|url-status=live }} Borat and Brüno film director Larry Charles directed the film.{{cite news | url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/11/sacha-baron-cohen-the-dictator-goat-larry-charles.html | work=Los Angeles Times | title=A 'Borat' reunion on Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Dictator'? | date=15 November 2010 | access-date=16 November 2010 | archive-date=19 November 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119085944/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/11/sacha-baron-cohen-the-dictator-goat-larry-charles.html | url-status=live }} The main target of the film's satire was Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was still alive when the film was written.{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2012/05/21/153204627/sacha-baron-cohen-the-fresh-air-interview|title=Sacha Baron Cohen: The Fresh Air Interview|publisher=NPR|date=21 May 2012|access-date=24 May 2012|archive-date=23 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523235107/http://www.npr.org/2012/05/21/153204627/sacha-baron-cohen-the-fresh-air-interview|url-status=live}} The producers of the film were concerned it would anger Gaddafi, possibly even resulting in a terrorist attack, so they released deliberate misinformation saying that the film was loosely based on a romance novel written by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

On 26 February 2012, Baron Cohen claimed he was banned from attending the 84th Academy Awards in his role as Admiral General Aladeen but the rumour was denied by the Academy, saying "we haven't banned him, he is lying" but made it clear that "Cohen is not welcome to use the red carpet as a platform for a promotional stunt".{{cite journal| title=Academy: Sacha Baron Cohen Not 'Banned' From Oscars But 'Dictator' Stunt Unwelcome| date=22 February 2012| first=Matthew| last=Belloni| url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-sacha-baron-cohen-not-banned-the-dictator-293929| journal=The Hollywood Reporter| access-date=19 February 2020| archive-date=5 April 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200405031332/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-sacha-baron-cohen-not-banned-the-dictator-293929| url-status=live}} Baron Cohen eventually appeared at the awards' red carpet with a pair of uniformed female bodyguards, holding an urn which he claimed was filled with the ashes of Kim Jong-il. The "ashes", which Baron Cohen admitted to Howard Stern on the Tuesday, 8 May 2012 episode of The Howard Stern Show was flour, were "accidentally" spilt onto Ryan Seacrest.

{{Further|Who Is America?}}

Baron Cohen portrays various characters in Who Is America?, including Erran Morad, an Israeli anti-terrorism expert. The character is referred to as a colonel (and later captain, general, major, sergeant, brigadier, sergeant corporal and lieutenant) in the Israeli military and a former agent of Mossad (or "not in the Mossad", as he often interjects). Before Who Is America? aired on Showtime, some conservative public figures made statements saying that Baron Cohen had deceived them while in character.{{cite web |last1=Pedersen |first1=Erik |title=Sacha Baron Cohen Also Duped Ex-Congressman Joe Walsh – Who's Not Thrilled About It |url=https://deadline.com/2018/07/sacha-baron-cohen-duped-joe-walsh-who-is-america-showtime-1202424785|website=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=11 July 2018 |date=11 July 2018 |archive-date=11 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711214700/https://deadline.com/2018/07/sacha-baron-cohen-duped-joe-walsh-who-is-america-showtime-1202424785|url-status=dead }}{{cite web |last1=Haring |first1=Bruce |title=Sacha Baron Cohen Adds Alabama Judge Roy Moore To His Showtime Spoof Victims |url=https://deadline.com/2018/07/sacha-baron-cohen-adds-alabama-judge-roy-moore-to-his-showtime-spoof-victims-1202425938|website=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=12 July 2018 |date=12 July 2018 |archive-date=13 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713032113/https://deadline.com/2018/07/sacha-baron-cohen-adds-alabama-judge-roy-moore-to-his-showtime-spoof-victims-1202425938|url-status=dead }}{{cite web |last1=Resnick |first1=Gideon |title=Sacha Baron Cohen's Latest Victim Is GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz: 'They Totally Got Me' |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/sacha-baron-cohens-latest-victim-is-gop-rep-matt-gaetz-they-totally-got-me |website=The Daily Beast |access-date=14 July 2018 |date=13 July 2018 |archive-date=13 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713154836/https://www.thedailybeast.com/sacha-baron-cohens-latest-victim-is-gop-rep-matt-gaetz-they-totally-got-me |url-status=live }} Hours before the premiere, Showtime uploaded the "Kinderguardians" segment on their YouTube channel, in which Morad explains to Philip Van Cleave, the president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, of the proposal of a new program where children ages 3 to 16 are armed with guns. He also interviews other conservatives, such as Dana Rohrabacher, Joe Wilson, and Joe Walsh, who are openly supportive. Only Matt Gaetz expresses skepticism of Morad's proposal and declines to be in his video.

In the second episode, Morad teaches Jason Spencer, a Republican state representative from Georgia, how to detect and repel terrorists by taking pictures up a woman's burqa with a selfie stick, walking backwards while baring his buttocks, and yelling racial epithets. After the airing of the episode, Spencer initially refused to step down, stating that he was exploited by the producers. In May 2018, Spencer lost his primary to a political novice, Steven Sainz,{{Cite news|url=https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/spencer-loses-primary-election-after-four-terms/article_1420fdb3-c353-53cb-8f8c-9d4eff04a8dd.html|title=Spencer loses primary election after four terms|last=Jackson|first=Gordon|work=The Brunswick News|access-date=15 September 2018|language=en|archive-date=24 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724032204/https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/spencer-loses-primary-election-after-four-terms/article_1420fdb3-c353-53cb-8f8c-9d4eff04a8dd.html|url-status=live}} but was expected to serve the rest of his term until November.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/07/23/georgia-state-representative-jason-spencer-says-sacha-baron-cohen-took-advantage-my-paralyzing-fear|title=Georgia state Rep. Jason Spencer says Sacha Baron Cohen 'took advantage of my paralyzing fear'|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en|access-date=15 September 2018|archive-date=16 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916022649/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/07/23/georgia-state-representative-jason-spencer-says-sacha-baron-cohen-took-advantage-my-paralyzing-fear|url-status=live}} He eventually did step down on 31 July 2018, leaving the seat vacant.{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/25/entertainment/jason-spencer-who-is-america-resigns/index.html|title=Georgia lawmaker who came under fire after yelling 'n-word' on 'Who Is America?' says he'll quit|first=Lisa|last=Respers France|date=25 July 2018|publisher=CNN|access-date=25 July 2018|archive-date=25 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725111942/https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/25/entertainment/jason-spencer-who-is-america-resigns/index.html|url-status=live}}

Baron Cohen has denied Who is America? will return for a second season, noting the publicity surrounding the show and his interviews would make it harder for him to dupe guests.{{cite web |last1=Sharf |first1=Zach |title='Who Is America?' Season 2 Never Happening, Sacha Baron Cohen Says It's 'Impossible' |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/who-is-america-season-2-not-happening-sacha-baron-cohen-1202029821|website=IndieWire |date=20 December 2018 |access-date=3 October 2020 |archive-date=14 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114191505/https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/who-is-america-season-2-not-happening-sacha-baron-cohen-1202029821|url-status=live }}

Baron Cohen guest-starred in the fifth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, with Dustin Hoffman, as a guide to Heaven. He also provided the voice of the ring-tailed lemur king, King Julien, in DreamWorks Animation's film series, Madagascar, and appeared as Will Ferrell's arch rival, the French Formula One speed demon Jean Girard, in the hit Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006).{{cite web|last1=Lundergaard|first1=Erik|title=An award for Sacha Baron Cohen? Darn right|url=http://www.today.com/id/15420637/ns/today-today_entertainment/t/award-sacha-baron-cohen-darn-right|website=Today|access-date=22 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313040550/http://www.today.com/id/15420637/ns/today-today_entertainment/t/award-sacha-baron-cohen-darn-right|archive-date=13 March 2016|url-status=dead}} He also appeared alongside Johnny Depp in the film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) as Signor Adolfo Pirelli, co-starred in Martin Scorsese's adventure film Hugo (2011), and portrayed Thénardier in the 2012 film version of the musical Les Misérables.{{cite web|title=Sacha Baron Cohen and His 'Sweeney Todd' Crotch Bulge|url=https://www.vulture.com/2007/12/sacha_baron_cohen_and_his_swee.html|website=Vulture|date=13 December 2007|access-date=22 February 2016|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175630/http://www.vulture.com/2007/12/sacha_baron_cohen_and_his_swee.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Dargis|first1=Manohla|title=Inventing a World, Just Like Clockwork|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/movies/martin-scorseses-hugo-with-ben-kingsley-and-sacha-baron-cohen-review.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111126025332/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/movies/martin-scorseses-hugo-with-ben-kingsley-and-sacha-baron-cohen-review.html |archive-date=2011-11-26 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|newspaper=The New York Times|date=22 November 2011 |access-date=22 February 2016}}{{cite journal| url=http://playbill.com/news/article/160818-Sacha-Baron-Cohen-Daniel-Evans-Linzi-Hateley-and-More-Confirmed-for-quotLes-Mizquot-Film| title=Sacha Baron Cohen, Daniel Evans, Linzi Hateley and More Confirmed for 'Les Miz' Film| last=Jones| first=Kenneth| date=16 March 2012| journal=Playbill| access-date=22 February 2016| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103181713/http://playbill.com/news/article/160818-Sacha-Baron-Cohen-Daniel-Evans-Linzi-Hateley-and-More-Confirmed-for-quotLes-Mizquot-Film| archive-date=3 January 2013| df=dmy-all}} He appeared as a BBC News Anchor in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013).{{cite web|url = http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2013/12/definitive-ranking-all-anchorman-2-cameos/356218|title = A Definitive Ranking of All the 'Anchorman 2' Cameos|last1 = Zuckerman|first1 = Esther| work=The Wire |date = 18 December 2013|publisher = Atlantic Monthly Group|access-date = 22 February 2016|archive-date = 11 May 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150511182809/http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2013/12/definitive-ranking-all-anchorman-2-cameos/356218|url-status = live}}

Baron Cohen has twice presented the MTV Europe Music Awards, first as Ali G on 8 November 2001, in Frankfurt, Germany, and then as Borat on 3 November 2005 in Lisbon, Portugal. 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 honour at the Holocaust denial conference in Tehran",{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6177591.stm |title=Merchant takes top comedy honour |date=14 December 2006 |work=BBC News |access-date=1 February 2010 |archive-date=15 December 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061215092445/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6177591.stm |url-status=live }} referring to the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust.

In September 2010, representatives for Baron Cohen confirmed that he was set to play Freddie Mercury in the Bohemian Rhapsody biopic about the rock singer.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9008440.stm|title=Sacha Baron Cohen to play Freddie Mercury in film|work=HARDtalk|publisher=BBC News|date=17 September 2010|access-date=17 September 2010|first=Brian|last=May|author-link=Brian May|archive-date=13 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113210509/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9008440.stm|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1648051/20100916/mercury_freddie.jhtml |title=Sacha Baron Cohen To Play Freddie Mercury 'Borat' star will portray legendary Queen frontman. |author=Mawuse Ziegbe |date=16 September 2010 |work=MTV |access-date=17 September 2010 |archive-date=19 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100919205732/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1648051/20100916/mercury_freddie.jhtml |url-status=dead }} He dropped out of the project in July 2013, citing "creative differences" between him and the surviving members of Queen.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2013/07/sacha-baron-cohen-exits-freddie-mercury-biopic-546717/|title=Sacha Baron Cohen Exits Freddie Mercury Biopic Over Creative Differences With Queen|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=22 July 2013|access-date=22 July 2013|first=Nikki|last=Finke|author-link=Nikki Finke|archive-date=23 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723202247/http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/sacha-baron-cohen-exits-freddie-mercury-biopic|url-status=live}} Queen guitarist Brian May later said that even though the band and Baron Cohen were on good terms, they felt that his presence would be "distracting". The role was later played by Rami Malek.[http://ultimateclassicrock.com/brian-may-speaks-on-queen-biopic-problems/ Brian May Speaks on Queen Biopic Problems] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625120658/http://ultimateclassicrock.com/brian-may-speaks-on-queen-biopic-problems|date=25 June 2017 }}. Ultimate Classic Rock. 19 October 2013. Baron Cohen shot a spread with model Alessandra Ambrosio for Marie Claire magazine to promote the film Brüno.{{cite web |url=http://www.elitemodels.com/details.aspx?navbtn=1&city=NY&modelid=245266&pic=472.jpg&subid=4670&mainsubid=4670&io=&indx=1|title=Marie Claire Spread |publisher=Elitemodels.com |access-date=31 July 2010 }}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In 2010, Baron Cohen guest-starred in The Simpsons episode, "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed", as Jakob, a quick-tempered Israeli tour guide.

In 2012, Baron Cohen and his production company Four By Two Films signed a first-look deal with Paramount Pictures,{{Cite magazine |last=Kroll |first=Justin |date=2012-02-29 |title=Par signs Baron Cohen to 3-year deal |url=https://variety.com/2012/film/news/par-signs-baron-cohen-to-3-year-deal-1118050878|magazine=Variety |access-date=10 September 2020 |archive-date=13 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113210515/https://variety.com/2012/film/news/par-signs-baron-cohen-to-3-year-deal-1118050878|url-status=live }} and the deal was renewed in 2014 for three years and a two-film commitment.{{Cite magazine |last=Kit |first=Borys |date=2014-02-13 |title=Sacha Baron Cohen Re-Ups With Paramount |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sacha-baron-cohen-ups-paramount-680135 |access-date=2020-09-10 |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |archive-date=4 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304034142/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sacha-baron-cohen-ups-paramount-680135 |url-status=live }} In Baron Cohen's Grimsby (2016; The Brothers Grimsby in the US), he plays the football hooligan brother of a British MI6 spy. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a failure at the box office.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/box-office-zootopia-10-cloverfield-lane-grimsby-1201728893|title=Box Office: 'Zootopia' Rules With $50 Million, Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Brothers Grimsby' Bombs|last=Lang|first=Brent|website=Variety|date=13 March 2016|language=en-US|access-date=14 March 2016|archive-date=14 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314010646/http://variety.com/2016/film/news/box-office-zootopia-10-cloverfield-lane-grimsby-1201728893|url-status=live}}

Baron Cohen portrayed political activist/anarchist Abbie Hoffman in the drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, with Aaron Sorkin writing and directing. The film was released in September 2020 to positive reviews.{{cite web | url=https://collider.com/aaron-sorkin-to-direct-trial-of-the-chicago-7-sacha-baron-cohen| title=Aaron Sorkin to Direct "Trial of the Chicago Seven" Starring Sacha Baron Cohen | work=Collider | date=26 October 2018 | access-date=26 October 2018 | archive-date=27 October 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027025659/http://collider.com/aaron-sorkin-to-direct-trial-of-the-chicago-7-sacha-baron-cohen| url-status=live }} He is set to star opposite Keke Palmer in the David O. Russell film Super Toys.{{cite web|url= https://variety.com/2023/film/news/keke-palmer-sacha-baron-cohen-super-toys-david-o-russell-1235518419|title= Keke Palmer and Sacha Baron Cohen to Star in David O. Russell's 'Super Toys'|website= Variety|date= 9 February 2023|accessdate= February 12, 2023|archive-date= 12 February 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230212151048/https://variety.com/2023/film/news/keke-palmer-sacha-baron-cohen-super-toys-david-o-russell-1235518419|url-status= live}}

Baron Cohen is a campaigner and philanthropist.{{Cite news |last=Shoard |first=Catherine |date=2021-02-19 |title=Sacha Baron Cohen: 'If you're protesting against racism, you're going to upset some racists' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/feb/19/sacha-baron-cohen-borat-trial-chicago-7-facebook-trump |access-date=2025-01-07 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |last=Puente |first=Maria |title=Sacha Baron Cohen, Isla Fisher donate $1 million for Syrian refugees |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/12/28/sacha-baron-cohen-isla-fisher-donate-1-million-for-syrian-refugees/77983010/ |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}} He has donated to numerous causes and children's charities in countries including Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia. He is a founding member of Stop Hate For Profit,{{Cite web |date=2020-09-15 |title=Kim Kardashian West, other celebrities to freeze Facebook and Instagram accounts in protest |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/kim-kardashian-west-other-celebrities-freeze-facebook-instagram-accounts-protest-n1240156 |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=NBC News |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Nolan |first=Emma |date=2020-09-16 |title=Every Celebrity Boycotting Facebook and Instagram |url=https://www.newsweek.com/every-celebrity-boycotting-instagram-facebook-stop-hate-profit-kim-kardashian-1532247 |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=Newsweek |language=en}} a vocal critic of social media companies, and has spoken publicly against racism, antisemitism, and online hate speech.{{Cite magazine |last=Cohen |first=Sacha Baron |date=2023-08-26 |title=Read Sacha Baron Cohen's Speech on Standing Against Hate |url=https://time.com/6308730/sacha-baron-cohen-mlk-march-on-washington-speech-anniversary/ |access-date=2024-10-24 |magazine=TIME |language=en}}

On 28 December 2015, Baron Cohen and his wife, Australian actress Isla Fisher, donated £335,000 ($500,000) to Save the Children as part of a programme to vaccinate children in northern Syria against measles; they donated the same amount to the International Rescue Committee, also aimed at helping Syrian refugees.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35188351 "Sacha Baron Cohen donates £670,000 for Syria"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108103038/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35188351|date=8 November 2020}}, BBC, Retrieved 29 December 2015. Baron Cohen has also donated to support children and families in Somalia during a severe hunger crisis, and funded the building of a maternity hospital in Hodeidah, Yemen.{{Cite web |last=Gardner |first=Chris |date=2024-10-24 |title=Sacha Baron Cohen Donates $500K to Children in Sudan Amid Hunger Crisis |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/sacha-baron-cohen-donation-sudan-hunger-crisis-1236044713/ |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Hipes |first=Patrick |date=2024-10-24 |title=Sacha Baron Cohen Donates $500K To Charities In Sudan |url=https://deadline.com/2024/10/sacha-baron-cohen-donation-sudan-charities-1236157565/ |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=25 October 2024 |title=Actor Sacha Baron Cohen donates US$500,000 to Save the Children and the International Rescue Committee for Sudan |url=https://www.savethechildren.net/news/actor-sacha-baron-cohen-donates-us500000-save-children-and-international-rescue-committee |access-date=30 October 2024 |website=Save The Children}}

In 2019, Baron Cohen was awarded the Anti-Defamation League's International Leadership Award for opposing bigotry and prejudice. In accepting the award, Baron Cohen gave an impassioned speech directing criticism at internet companies, singling out Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter as part of "the biggest propaganda machine in history" and claiming that their rules on hate speech meant "they would have let Hitler buy ads".{{cite web |title=Sacha Baron Cohen's Keynote Address at ADL's 2019 Never Is Now Summit on Anti-Semitism and Hate |url=https://www.adl.org/news/article/sacha-baron-cohens-keynote-address-at-adls-2019-never-is-now-summit-on-anti-semitism |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191124084554/https://www.adl.org/news/article/sacha-baron-cohens-keynote-address-at-adls-2019-never-is-now-summit-on-anti-semitism |archive-date=24 November 2019 |access-date=24 November 2019 |website=adl.org |publisher=Anti-Defamation League |language=en}}{{cite news |author=Ben Weich |date=22 November 2019 |title=Sacha Baron Cohen attacks Mark Zuckerberg for facilitating 'hate and violence' as he accepts ADL International Leadership Awards |url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/sacha-baron-cohen-attacks-mark-zuckerberg-for-facilitating-hate-violence-as-he-accepts-adl-interna-1.493497 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204233502/https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/sacha-baron-cohen-attacks-mark-zuckerberg-for-facilitating-hate-violence-as-he-accepts-adl-interna-1.493497 |archive-date=4 December 2019 |access-date=4 December 2019 |publisher=The Jewish Chronicle}}

In 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher partnered with Marc Benioff to send a planeload of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to National Health Service workers in the UK.{{Cite web |last=Rosseinsky |first=Katie |date=2020-04-30 |title=Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher donate planeload of PPE for NHS |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/sacha-baron-cohen-isla-fisher-donate-ppe-nhs-a4428486.html |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=The Standard |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Lord |first=Annie |date=30 April 2020 |title=Coronavirus: Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher send planeload of PPE to NHS workers |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/coronavirus-sacha-baron-cohen-isla-fisher-ppe-nhs-donation-hospital-a9491471.html |access-date=30 October 2024 |website=Independent}}

In August 2023, Baron Cohen spoke alongside Martin Luther King III and Rev. Al Sharpton at the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington.{{Cite web |title=Sacha Baron Cohen Remarks at 60th Anniversary of March on Washington {{!}} C-SPAN.org |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5082377/sacha-baron-cohen-remarks-60th-anniversary-march-washington |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=www.c-span.org}}

In October 2024, Baron Cohen donated $500,000 to Save the Children and the International Rescue Committee to help support their work tackling a displacement crisis and famine in Sudan, and called for more aid to support the cause.

In 2023, he was one of the actors to sign an open letter to President Biden calling for the release of all hostages taken by Hamas.{{Cite web |last=Patten |first=Dominic |date=2023-10-23 |title=Thank You Joe Biden! Gal Gadot, Chris Rock, Constance Wu, Sacha Baron Cohen & Dozens More A-Listers Praise POTUS For Israel Stance & Hostage Releases |url=https://deadline.com/2023/10/hollywood-thanks-joe-biden-israel-hostages-letter-1235581070|access-date=2024-02-20 |website=Deadline |language=en-US |archive-date=20 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240220221253/https://deadline.com/2023/10/hollywood-thanks-joe-biden-israel-hostages-letter-1235581070|url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |last1=Culture |first1=Ryan Smith Senior Pop |last2=Reporter |first2=Entertainment |date=2023-10-24 |title=Full List of celebrities demanding release of all Hamas hostages |url=https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-celebrities-demanding-release-all-hamas-hostages-1837190 |access-date=2024-02-20 |website=Newsweek |language=en |archive-date=20 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240220221254/https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-celebrities-demanding-release-all-hamas-hostages-1837190 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Donnelly |first=Matt |date=2023-10-23 |title=Hollywood Stars and Executives Thank President Biden for Leadership, Call for Release of All Hamas Hostages |url=https://variety.com/2023/film/news/hamas-hostages-hollywood-stars-open-letter-biden-1235765726/ |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

In October 2023, Baron Cohen was among the members of the Writers Guild of America that called out its guild leaders for not speaking in support of Israel during the Gaza war.{{cite news |last=Cabildo |first=Aldous |date=October 17, 2023 |title=Sacha Baron Cohen and Other Members of WGA Call Out Guild for Not Supporting Israel |url=https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sacha-baron-cohen-other-members-wga-call-out-guild-not-supporting-israel-1720710 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120221734/https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sacha-baron-cohen-other-members-wga-call-out-guild-not-supporting-israel-1720710 |archive-date=20 November 2023 |access-date=November 20, 2023 |newspaper=International Business Times}}{{better source|date=April 2025}}

In November 2023, Baron Cohen was among more than a dozen creators and celebrities who challenged TikTok executives on the subject of content moderation and the safety of Jewish users amidst the early stages of the Gaza war.{{cite news |last=Maheshwari |first=Sapna |author-link=Sapna Maheshwari |date=November 16, 2023 |title=Jewish Celebrities and Influencers Confront TikTok Executives in Private Call |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/technology/tiktok-jewish-open-letter-antisemitism.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120132323/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/technology/tiktok-jewish-open-letter-antisemitism.html |archive-date=20 November 2023 |access-date=November 20, 2023 |newspaper=The New York Times}}

For much of the early part of his career, Baron Cohen avoided doing interviews out of character. However, in 2004, he did the talk show circuit appearing as himself on Late Show with David Letterman, The Opie and Anthony Show, The Howard Stern Show,{{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://howardstern.com/rundown.hs?j=n&d=1093158000 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061031020450/http://www.howardstern.com/rundown.hs?j=n&d=1093158000 |archive-date=31 October 2006 |access-date=12 November 2006}} The Howard Stern Show and others to promote the forthcoming season of his show on HBO. He was also interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered and did an interview with Rolling Stone, published in November 2006, that the magazine labelled as "his only interview as himself". He also appeared in an interview out of character with Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air on 4 January 2007.[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6723074 Meet the Real Sacha Baron Cohen] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421150902/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6723074 |date=21 April 2018 }}. Fresh Air. 4 January 2007 (advance to 21:10 in the interview).

Borat director Larry Charles explains that Baron Cohen generally appears in character partly to "protect his weakness", by focusing public interest on his characters rather than himself.{{cite web |last=Gordon |first=Devin |title=Newsweek article |url=http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15560972/site/newsweek|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070828075624/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15560972/site/newsweek|archive-date=28 August 2007 |access-date=31 July 2010 |publisher=MSNBC}} His other reason, Newsweek claims, is that Baron Cohen is fiercely private: "...according to the UK press, his publicists denied that he attended a party for the London premiere of Borat and that a party even occurred".

Baron Cohen was featured in the Time 100 list for 2007.{{cite magazine |last=Barr |first=Roseanne |date=4 May 2007 |title=Sacha Baron Cohen, Time 100 |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1595332_1616201,00.html |url-status=dead |magazine=Time |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070505051148/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1595332_1616201,00.html |archive-date=5 May 2007 |access-date=4 May 2007}}

Sports Illustrated{{'s}} 6 November 2006 issue contains a column called "Skater vs. Instigator", which illustrates various amusing "parallels" between Baron Cohen and figure skater Sasha Cohen, ranging from their mutually held personal significance of the number 4{{Cite web |title=4 is the Supreme Number of the Universe – CubicAO |url=http://www.cubicao.tk/theory/4supreme.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430022623/http://www.cubicao.tk/theory/4supreme.html |archive-date=30 April 2008 |website=www.cubicao.tk}} to their shared romantic interests in redheads.

In 2018, The Times named him among the 30 best living comedians.{{cite news |title=From Hannah Gadsby to Sacha Baron Cohen: the 30 best living comedians |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/from-hannah-gadsby-to-sacha-baron-cohen-the-30-best-living-comedians-t3x0wxltp |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201015111822/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/from-hannah-gadsby-to-sacha-baron-cohen-the-30-best-living-comedians-t3x0wxltp |archive-date=15 October 2020 |access-date=19 October 2019 |newspaper=The Times}}

Baron Cohen has been criticized for the racist or prejudiced comments his characters have made. HBO spokesman Quentin Schaffer replied to the criticism and said, "Through his alter-egos, [Baron Cohen] delivers an obvious satire that exposes people's ignorance and prejudice in much the same way All in the Family did years ago."{{cite news|url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=9732 |title=Did Ali G Go Too Far?|first=Liel|last=Leibovitz|work=The Jewish Week|location=New York|date=26 August 2004|access-date=10 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040826111026/http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=9732|archive-date=26 August 2004}} Regarding his portrayal as the anti-Semitic Borat, Baron Cohen says the segments are a "dramatic demonstration of how racism feeds on dumb conformity, as much as rabid bigotry" rather than a display of racism by Baron Cohen himself.{{Cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20060908/115774501000.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070323100516/https://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20060908/115774501000.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 March 2007|title=Yahoo! Movies: Movie News -|date=23 March 2007|access-date=7 August 2018}} He said, "Borat essentially works as a tool. By himself being anti-Semitic, he lets people lower their guard and expose their own prejudice." Addressing the same topic in an NPR interview with Robert Siegel, he said, "People really let down their guard with [Borat] because they're in a room with somebody who seems to have these outrageous opinions. They sometimes feel much more relaxed about letting their own outrageous, politically incorrect, prejudiced opinions come out."{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3613548|first=Robert|last=Siegel|title=Ali G: Fooling Serious Interviewees, All for a Laugh|work=NPR|date=23 July 2004|access-date=31 July 2010|archive-date=12 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100812012853/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3613548|url-status=live}} Baron Cohen said he also wishes in particular to expose the role of indifference in the Holocaust: "When I was in university, there was this major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw, who said, 'The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.' I know it's not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but it's an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic." Regarding the enthusiastic response to his song "In My Country There Is Problem" (also known as "Throw the Jew Down the Well"), he said, "Did it reveal that [the cheering audience] were anti-Semitic? Perhaps. But maybe it just revealed that they were indifferent to anti-Semitism."

In an interview with former Tory MP politician Neil Hamilton in 2000, Ali G offered Hamilton what was allegedly cannabis, which Hamilton accepted and smoked, creating some minor controversy in the British media.{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/607608.stm | work=BBC News | title=Hamilton 'shared joint' with Ali G | date=18 January 2000 | access-date=10 April 2010 | archive-date=13 November 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113210509/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/607608.stm | url-status=live }}

The government of Kazakhstan threatened Baron Cohen with legal action following the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards ceremony in Lisbon, and the authority in charge of the country's country-code top-level domain name removed the website that he had created for his character Borat (previously: http://www.borat.kz) for alleged violation of the law—specifically, registering for the domain under a false name. The New York Times, among others, has reported that Baron Cohen (in character as Borat) replied: "I'd like to state that I have no connection with Mr. Cohen and fully support my government decision to sue this Jew".{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/british-comic-responds-to-legal-threat-against-borat-1.535929|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070224150143/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2005/11/25/borat-lawsuit-051125.html|url-status=live|archive-date=24 February 2007|title=CBC.ca Arts – British comic responds to legal threat against 'Borat'|date=24 February 2007|access-date=7 August 2018}} He was, however, defended by Dariga Nazarbayeva, a politician and the daughter of Kazakhstan's then-President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who stated, "We should not be afraid of humour and we shouldn't try to control everything...".{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/daughter-of-kazakhstan-s-president-defends-borat-1.574044?ref=rss|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211132450/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/04/21/borat-kazakhstan-defence.html?ref=rss|url-status=live|archive-date=11 February 2007|title=CBC.ca Arts – Daughter of Kazakhstan's president defends Borat|date=11 February 2007|access-date=7 August 2018}} The deputy foreign minister of Kazakhstan later invited Baron Cohen to visit the country, stating that he could learn that "women drive cars, wine is made of grapes, and Jews are free to go to synagogues".[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6066040.stm "Kazakh invite for Borat creator"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090120235544/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6066040.stm |date=20 January 2009 }}, BBC News, 19 October 2006. After the success of the Borat film, the Kazakh government, including the president, altered their stance on Baron Cohen's parody, tacitly recognising the valuable press coverage the controversy created for their country.Saunders, Robert A. (Spring 2008), "Buying into Brand Borat: Kazakhstan's Cautious Embrace of Its Unwanted 'Son{{'"}}, Slavic Review, 67 (1): 63–80.

At the 2006 MTV Movie Awards, Borat introduced Gnarls Barkley's performance of "Crazy",{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1533515/mtv-movie-awards-will-ferrell-freaks-out-jessica-simpson-dusts-off-daisy-dukes|title=MTV Movie Awards: Will Ferrell Freaks Out; Jessica Simpson Dusts Off Daisy Dukes|work=MTV News|access-date=5 October 2015|archive-date=16 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160516143808/http://www.mtv.com/news/1533515/mtv-movie-awards-will-ferrell-freaks-out-jessica-simpson-dusts-off-daisy-dukes|url-status=dead}} where he made a comment about Jessica Simpson, saying that he liked her mouth and that he could see it clearly through her denim pants.{{cite web|url=http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/special_feature_300/379_sacha-baron-cohen-5-things-you-didnt-know.html|title=Sacha Baron Cohen: 5 Things You Didn't Know|author=Ryan McKee|work=AskMen|access-date=5 October 2015|archive-date=6 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006044015/http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/special_feature_300/379_sacha-baron-cohen-5-things-you-didnt-know.html|url-status=live}}

At the 2006 UK premiere of Borat, he arrived in Leicester Square in a cart pulled by a mule and a number of "Kazakh women," announcing: "Good evening, gentleman and prostitutes. After this, I stay in a hotel in Kings Cross. We will all drink, wrestle with no clothes on and shoot dogs from the window".[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/9107985/Oscars-2012-Sacha-Baron-Cohen-spills-Kim-Jong-ils-ashes-on-Ryan-Seacrest.html Oscars 2012: Sacha Baron Cohen spills 'Kim Jong-il's ashes' on Ryan Seacrest] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403223523/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/9107985/Oscars-2012-Sacha-Baron-Cohen-spills-Kim-Jong-ils-ashes-on-Ryan-Seacrest.html |date=3 April 2018 }} Telegraph. Retrieved 27 February 2012

Two of the three University of South Carolina students who appear in Borat sued the filmmakers, alleging that they were duped into signing release forms while drunk, and that false promises were made that the footage was for a documentary that would never be screened in the US. On 11 December 2006, a Los Angeles judge denied the pair a restraining order to remove them from the film. The lawsuit was dismissed in February 2007.{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/borat-has-last-laugh-after-lawsuit-fails-20080121-gdrxmx.html|title=Borat has last laugh after lawsuit fails|date=21 January 2008|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=13 August 2019|archive-date=13 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813233546/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/borat-has-last-laugh-after-lawsuit-fails-20080121-gdrxmx.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://defamer.com/hollywood/celeb-jurisprudence/borat-frat-boys-lawsuit-dismissed-by-judge-who-secretly-knows-sacha-baron-cohens-golden-globes-speech-by-heart-237454.php |title=Borat Frat Boys Lawsuit Dismissed By Judge Who Secretly Knows Sacha Baron Cohen's Golden Globes Speech By Heart |publisher=Defamer.com |date=16 February 2007 |access-date=31 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201171926/http://defamer.com/hollywood/celeb-jurisprudence/borat-frat-boys-lawsuit-dismissed-by-judge-who-secretly-knows-sacha-baron-cohens-golden-globes-speech-by-heart-237454.php |archive-date=1 February 2009 }}

On 26 September 2008, Baron Cohen walked onto the runway during the Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada fashion show in Milan. In-character as Brüno, he was wearing a costume made of velcro. He appeared on the stage with a blanket and items of clothing stuck to his velcro suit. Lights were turned off while security intervened and escorted him off the stage, and the fashion show resumed normally shortly thereafter. Baron Cohen and his team had allegedly accessed the fashion show using fake IDs.{{Cite web|url=http://omg.yahoo.com/news/sacha-baron-cohen-kicked-out-of-milan-fashion-week/13579|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929202711/http://omg.yahoo.com/news/sacha-baron-cohen-kicked-out-of-milan-fashion-week/13579|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 September 2008|title=Sacha Baron Cohen Kicked Out of Milan Fashion Week – omg! news on Yahoo!|date=29 September 2008|access-date=7 August 2018}}

During the filming of Bruno, Baron Cohen was chased through Jerusalem by an angry, rock-throwing Jewish mob. He had outraged Hasidic Jews in the city by dressing in a "camp version" of their traditional clothing.{{Cite web |last=Jefferies |first=Mark |date=2012-05-17 |title="They wanted to really kill me": How Sacha Baron Cohen fled for his life as angry mob tried to stone him |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/sacha-baron-cohen-fled-for-his-life-837963 |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Daily Mirror |language=en}} He escaped the incident by hiding in a shop. The scene was cut from the film.{{Cite web |date=2012-05-15 |title='They wanted to really kill me' - Cohen details Bruno disaster (+video) |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/they-wanted-to-really-kill-me-cohen-details-bruno-disaster-video/DJDHESQZFHHWCCBOULOAT6VIJY/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=NZ Herald |language=en-NZ}}

On 22 May 2009, a charity worker at a seniors' bingo game sued Baron Cohen, claiming an incident shot for Brüno at a charity bingo tournament left her disabled.{{Cite web|url=http://newsbizarre.com/2009/06/richelle-olson-bruno-austrian.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823054628/http://newsbizarre.com/2009/06/richelle-olson-bruno-austrian.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 August 2011|title=The News Bizarre: Richelle Olson: Bruno the Austrian Fashionista Sued|date=23 August 2011|access-date=7 August 2018}} However, the worker later retracted her statement, saying the "actor never struck her", but that he "beat her down emotionally to the point she's now confined to a wheelchair".{{cite web |url=https://www.tmz.com/2009/07/10/sacha-baron-cohen-bingo-re-sued|title=Sacha Baron Cohen – BINGO! Re-Sued |publisher=TMZ.com |date=13 January 2012 |access-date=17 January 2012 |archive-date=12 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112010302/http://www.tmz.com/2009/07/10/sacha-baron-cohen-bingo-re-sued |url-status=live }} The scene did not make the final cut for the film. The case was dismissed in late November 2009 on Anti-SLAPP grounds, with all lawyer's fees to be paid by the charity worker. The dismissal was appealed and upheld on 12 September 2011.{{cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11921955609583072528 |title=Olson v. Cohen Cal: Court of Appeal, 2nd Appellate Dist., 7th Div., 2011 |access-date=17 January 2012 |archive-date=30 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930145843/http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11921955609583072528 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Gardner |first=Eriq |date=13 September 2011 |title=Universal Wins 'Bruno' Lawsuit Over Woman Injured in Bingo Hall |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/universal-wins-bruno-lawsuit-woman-234614 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813235026/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/universal-wins-bruno-lawsuit-woman-234614 |archive-date=13 August 2019 |access-date=13 August 2019 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}}

On 30 April 2010, Palestinian Christian grocer Ayman Abu Aita filed a lawsuit against Baron Cohen. In the film, Abu Aita was described as a member of Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. Abu Aita's lawsuit stated that he had been defamed by false accusations that he was a "terrorist" in the movie Bruno, adding that, though he had been a member of Fatah, he had never been a member of Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade and was a non-violent activist and a board member of Holy Land Trust, a non-profit. He had agreed to the interview under the impression it was a documentary about the daily life of Palestinians.{{Cite news |last=Shabi |first=Rachel |date=2009-07-31 |title=The non-profit worker from Bethlehem who was branded a terrorist by Bruno |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/31/bruno-israel-terrorist |access-date=2025-04-13 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} Aita included David Letterman in the suit based on comments made during a 7 July 2009 appearance by Baron Cohen on the Late Show with David Letterman in which he claimed that Abu Aita was a "terrorist".[http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=6f3b0cc6-fb7a-4b9d-990b-984020fbefc8 Complaint filed in the District of Columbia, Case No. 2010CA002966] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713093339/http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=6f3b0cc6-fb7a-4b9d-990b-984020fbefc8 |date=13 July 2011 }}, retrieved on 30 May 2010 Unlike the other lawsuits, Aita did not sign a release form, and his case centred around whether Baron Cohen's portrayal of Aita was false, not whether he was defrauded.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/arts/television/sacha-baron-cohen-lawsuits-who-is-america.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820052348/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/arts/television/sacha-baron-cohen-lawsuits-who-is-america.html |archive-date=2018-08-20 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Sacha Baron Cohen Pranked Me, Can I Sue? Yes. Win? Not So Much.|first=Sopan|last=Deb|newspaper=The New York Times|date=19 August 2018}} The case was initially dismissed, as Abu Aita was not an American citizen.{{Cite web |last=Banks • • |first=Kathy |date=2010-05-24 |title="Bruno" Defamation Lawsuit Moves to D.C. Superior Court |url=https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/bruno-defamation-lawsuit-moves-to-dc-superior-court/2095840/ |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=NBC4 Washington |language=en-US}} In September 2012, the defamation claim was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.{{Cite web|url=http://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/iscroll/SQLData.jsp?IndexNo=102524-2011#|title=Scroll|website=iapps.courts.state.ny.us|access-date=24 May 2012|archive-date=24 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160124073257/http://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/iscroll/SQLData.jsp?IndexNo=102524-2011|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Sacha Baron Cohen settles slander suit over grocer portrayed as terrorist in film|date=20 July 2012|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/9413864/Sacha-Baron-Cohen-settles-slander-suit-over-grocer-portrayed-as-terrorist-in-film.html|access-date=1 April 2018|archive-date=9 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009063640/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/9413864/Sacha-Baron-Cohen-settles-slander-suit-over-grocer-portrayed-as-terrorist-in-film.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/david-letterman-sacha-baron-cohen-bruno-lawsuit--352162|title=Palestinian Portrayed as 'Terrorist' Settles 'Bruno' Suit Against Sacha Baron Cohen, David Letterman|website=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=14 August 2019|archive-date=14 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814071605/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/david-letterman-sacha-baron-cohen-bruno-lawsuit--352162|url-status=dead}}

In 2018, former Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama sued Baron Cohen for $95 million relating to a mock interview in Who is America? and allegations of paedophilia.{{Cite web |last1=Sutton |first1=Joe |last2=Chavez |first2=Nicole |date=2018-09-06 |title=Roy Moore is suing Sacha Baron Cohen over his 'Who is America?' prank |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/06/entertainment/roy-moore-sacha-baron-cohen-lawsuit/index.html |access-date=2024-06-24 |website=CNN |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Izadi |first=Elahe |date=2021-12-02 |title=Sacha Baron Cohen's latest prank: Using a fake pedophile detector on Roy Moore |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/07/30/sacha-baron-cohens-latest-prank-using-a-fake-pedophile-detector-on-roy-moore/ |access-date=2024-06-24 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}} On 13 July 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the lawsuit after finding that Moore had signed a consent agreement barring his claims.{{cite journal |last1=Gutterman |first1=Roy S. |title=Liable, Naaaht: The Mockumentary: Litigation, Liability and the First Amendment in the Works of Sacha Baron Cohen |journal=Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law |date=April 7, 2022 |volume=13 |issue=1 |page=178 |url=https://harvardjsel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2022/04/13-1-Gutterman.pdf |access-date=29 November 2022 |archive-date=20 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520103448/https://harvardjsel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2022/04/13-1-Gutterman.pdf |url-status=live }} Moore has filed notice of his intent to appeal the decision.{{Cite news|last=Stempel|first=Jonathan|date=July 13, 2021|title=Sacha Baron Cohen, Showtime win dismissal of Roy Moore defamation lawsuit|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/sacha-baron-cohen-showtime-win-dismissal-roy-moore-defamation-lawsuit-2021-07-13|access-date=July 13, 2021|archive-date=13 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713215546/https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/sacha-baron-cohen-showtime-win-dismissal-roy-moore-defamation-lawsuit-2021-07-13|url-status=live}} On 8 July 2022, Baron Cohen defeated the lawsuit.{{cite news |date=2022-07-08 |title=Sacha Baron Cohen defeats Roy Moore's $95m lawsuit over 'pedophile detector' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jul/07/sacha-baron-cohen-defeats-roy-moore-lawsuit |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 July 2022 |archive-date=7 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707235159/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jul/07/sacha-baron-cohen-defeats-roy-moore-lawsuit |url-status=live }}

In June 2020, Baron Cohen crashed the right-wing "March for Our Rights 3" protest in Olympia, Washington, a counter-protest to the March for Our Lives demonstration as a result of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Disguised under heavy make-up, Baron Cohen sang a song telling listeners to attack liberals, CNN, the World Health Organization, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates and "mask-wearers". The crowd, which initially sang along, realized they were being pranked when counter-protestors recognized Baron Cohen and began laughing. Baron Cohen's security stopped the organizers from taking him off stage and turning off the power, and Baron Cohen was forced to flee in a private ambulance from the crowd.{{Cite web |last1=Haring |first1=Bruce |date=2 June 2020 |title=Sacha Baron Cohen Crashes Right Wing Event, Leads Absurd Sing-Along |url=https://deadline.com/2020/06/sacha-baron-cohen-crashes-right-wing-event-leads-singalong-1202972079 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630010309/https://deadline.com/2020/06/sacha-baron-cohen-crashes-right-wing-event-leads-singalong-1202972079 |archive-date=30 June 2020 |access-date=30 June 2020 |website=Deadline Hollywood |language=en}}{{cite episode |title=Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeff Tweedy |url=https://www.cbs.com/shows/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/video/x3eb5Ugihg2JIKxr2TQ5Tf_or3DVSQy2/the-late-show-10-26-20-sacha-baron-cohen-jeff-tweedy- |series=The Late Show with Stephen Colbert |series-link=The Late Show with Stephen Colbert |last=Colbert |first=Stephen |network=CBS All Access |date=October 26, 2020 |season=6 |number=24 |language=en-US, en-GB |access-date=November 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031224832/https://www.cbs.com/shows/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/video/x3eb5Ugihg2JIKxr2TQ5Tf_or3DVSQy2/the-late-show-10-26-20-sacha-baron-cohen-jeff-tweedy- |url-status=live |archive-date=October 31, 2020}} The incident was later revealed to have been organized as part of filming for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, with Baron Cohen in-character as Borat in disguise.{{cite news |last=Ivie |first=Devon |date=28 June 2020 |title=Sacha Baron Cohen Apparently Emerged From Quarantine to Prank Alt-Right Rally |url=https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/sacha-baron-cohen-pranks-alt-right-militia-event-watch.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225010921/https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/sacha-baron-cohen-pranks-alt-right-militia-event-watch.html |archive-date=25 February 2021 |access-date=27 February 2021 |work=Vulture}}

Baron Cohen first met Australian actress Isla Fisher at a party in Sydney in 2001, and they became engaged in 2004.{{cite news|url=https://people.com/celebrity/buzz-sacha-baron-cohen-and-isla-fisher-wed/|title=Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher Wed|work=People|date=22 March 2010|access-date=6 May 2010|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165936/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1563299,00.html|url-status=live}} She later converted to Judaism,{{cite news|url=http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/201210309889/isla-fisher-sacha-baron-cohen|title=Isla Fisher says marriage with Sacha Baron Cohen is like 'winning the lottery'|date=30 October 2012|work=Hello Magazine|access-date=20 October 2016|archive-date=24 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224162457/https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/201210309889/isla-fisher-sacha-baron-cohen|url-status=live}} and they were married in a Jewish ceremony on 15 March 2010 in Milan and Paris.{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/isla-fisher-and-sacha-baron-cohen-finally-wed/story-e6frfmvr-1225843610980 |title=Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen finally wed |work=News.com.au |date=22 March 2010 |access-date=31 July 2010 |archive-date=24 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100324115645/http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/isla-fisher-and-sacha-baron-cohen-finally-wed/story-e6frfmvr-1225843610980 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://showbiz.sky.com/weddings-and-engagements-2010 |title=Isla Fisher and Sasha Baron Cohen Wed |website=Showbiz.sky.com |access-date=31 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325082044/http://showbiz.sky.com/weddings-and-engagements-2010 |archive-date=25 March 2010 }}{{cite magazine|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20353831,00.html|title=Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen's Secret, Six-Guest Wedding|magazine=People|access-date=25 May 2010|archive-date=30 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160830021017/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20353831,00.html|url-status=dead}} They have two daughters (born 2007{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22616372-662,00.html |title=It's a baby girl for Borat |work=Herald Sun |date=20 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026042500/http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22616372-662,00.html |archive-date=26 October 2007}} and 2010){{cite web |url=http://www.usmagazine.com/momsbabies/news/revealed-find-out-the-name-of-isla-fishers-baby-2011103 |title=Find Out The Name of Isla Fisher's Baby |work=Us Weekly |date=10 March 2011 |access-date=11 March 2011 |archive-date=20 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020080014/http://www.usmagazine.com/momsbabies/news/revealed-find-out-the-name-of-isla-fishers-baby-2011103 |url-status=live }} and a son (born 2015).{{cite news|url=https://www.tmz.com/2015/04/16/sacha-baron-cohen-isla-fisher-baby-boy-birth-certificate|title=Sacha Baron Cohen & Isla Fisher Holy Moses It's A Boy!!|work=TMZ|date=16 April 2015|access-date=16 April 2015|archive-date=3 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503123612/https://www.tmz.com/2015/04/16/sacha-baron-cohen-isla-fisher-baby-boy-birth-certificate|url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/confidential/isla-fisher-and-sacha-baron-cohen-have-welcomed-a-baby-boy-his-name-has-been-revealed-ng-a1ba361a6048de06699fb4a74f1b2179 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=Perth, Australia |date=17 April 2015 |title=Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen have welcomed a baby boy! His name has been revealed |access-date=22 February 2021 |quote=the celebrity couple have named their third child Montgomery Moses Brian Baron Cohen. |via=Perth Now |archive-date=25 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210525200319/https://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/confidential/isla-fisher-and-sacha-baron-cohen-have-welcomed-a-baby-boy-his-name-has-been-revealed-ng-a1ba361a6048de06699fb4a74f1b2179 |url-status=live }} They previously divided their time between the Marylebone district of London and the Laurel Canyon neighbourhood of Los Angeles,{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/isla-fisher-s-my-london-6527835.html|title=Isla Fisher's My London|first=Hannah|last=Nathanson|date=10 April 2012|website=www.standard.co.uk|access-date=18 May 2021|archive-date=18 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518213121/https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/isla-fisher-s-my-london-6527835.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/borat-and-isla-fishers-new-mansion/news-story/74af4e9216a4a388e8654ad3b2c1eb18?sv=db9ffd3a99b32a4753e2f161f715b238 |title=Borat and Isla Fisher's New Mansion |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=Australia |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=13 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113210510/https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/borat-and-isla-fishers-new-mansion/news-story/74af4e9216a4a388e8654ad3b2c1eb18?sv=db9ffd3a99b32a4753e2f161f715b238&nk=eda90cd9197bef62ced467d58cdf454d-1605301510 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/10/15/isla-fisher-on-living-with-borat-and-ali-g-and-keeping-up-with-t|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/10/15/isla-fisher-on-living-with-borat-and-ali-g-and-keeping-up-with-t|archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-status=live |title=Isla Fisher on living with Borat and Ali G, and Keeping up with the Joneses |newspaper=The Telegraph |url-access=subscription |date=15 October 2016 |access-date=22 February 2021 |last=Lipworth |first=Elaine }}{{cbignore}} before settling in Sydney.{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/isla-fishers-my-london-6527835.html|title=Isla Fisher's My London|website=Standard.co.uk|date=10 April 2012|access-date=14 March 2021|archive-date=11 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011014720/https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/isla-fishers-my-london-6527835.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2010/dirt/news/sacha-baron-cohen-lists-and-goes-big-in-los-angeles-1201230570|title=Sacha Baron Cohen Lists and Goes Big In Los Angeles|first=Mark|last=David|date=26 July 2010|website=Variety|access-date=14 March 2021|archive-date=6 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106131003/https://variety.com/2010/dirt/news/sacha-baron-cohen-lists-and-goes-big-in-los-angeles-1201230570|url-status=live}} On 5 April 2024, they jointly revealed that they had filed for divorce at the end of 2023.{{cite web |last1=Speakman |first1=Kimberlee |title=Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher Reveal They're Divorcing After 13 Years of Marriage |url=https://people.com/sacha-baron-cohen-isla-fisher-reveal-divorce-7965107 |website=People |access-date=5 April 2024 |archive-date=5 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240405172144/https://people.com/sacha-baron-cohen-isla-fisher-reveal-divorce-7965107 |url-status=live }}

Baron Cohen has said of his Jewish identity, "I wouldn't say I am a religious Jew. I am proud of my Jewish identity and there are certain things I do and customs I keep." He tries to keep kosher, attends synagogue about twice a year, and is fluent in Hebrew.{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/film/profile-sacha-baron-cohen-and-the-making-of-bruno-6772832.html|title=Profile: Sacha Baron Cohen and the making of Bruno|work=London Evening Standard|date=18 June 2009|access-date=24 April 2018|archive-date=24 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424202450/https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/film/profile-sacha-baron-cohen-and-the-making-of-bruno-6772832.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/dec/20/israelandthepalestinians|title=Secret of Borat's fluent Kazakh – it's Hebrew|last=Staff and agencies|date=20 December 2006|website=The Guardian|access-date=8 October 2016|archive-date=14 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414153633/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/dec/20/israelandthepalestinians|url-status=live}} He first acted in theatrical productions with the Labour youth movement Habonim Dror.{{cite news| url = http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1883923,00.html| title = He becomes the character, certainly with Ali G and Borat. He has a mix of Sellers's acting and Rod Hull's bottle| access-date = 16 January 2007| last = Scott| first = Kirsty| date = 29 September 2006| series = Features| work = The Guardian| location = UK| quote = First acted with the Habonim Dror Jewish youth group and at Cambridge in plays such as Cyrano de Bergerac and Fiddler on the Roof.| archive-date = 6 July 2008| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080706204324/http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1883923,00.html| url-status = live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-nerd-factor-in-sacha-baron-cohens-past|title=Before 'The Dictator' and 'Borat', Friends Recall, Sacha Baron Cohen Was a Very Nerdy, Very Funny, Israel-Oriented Guy |first=Jessica |last=Steinberg |date=11 May 2012 |work=The Times of Israel |access-date=30 June 2014 |archive-date=7 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107093140/https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-nerd-factor-in-sacha-baron-cohens-past|url-status=live }} He spent a year in Israel as a kibbutz volunteer at Rosh HaNikra and Beit HaEmek as part of the Shnat Habonim Dror, also taking part in the programme Machon L'Madrichei Chutz La'Aretz for Jewish youth movement leaders.

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