Sacha Baron Cohen
Also Known As: Sacha Noam Baron Cohen, ساشا بارون کوهن
Biography: Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (/ˈsæʃə/ SA-shə; Hebrew: סָשָׁה נֹעַם בָּרוֹן כֹּהֵן; born 13 October 1971) is an English comedian, actor, and performance artist. He is best known for his creation and portrayal of the fictional satirical characters Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Brüno Gehard, and Admiral General Haffaz Aladeen. At the 2012 British Comedy Awards, Baron Cohen received the Outstanding Achievement Award and accepted the award in-character as Ali G. In 2013, he received the BAFTA Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy. In 2018, The Times named him among the 30 best living comedians. Beginning his career in television, Baron Cohen was named Best Newcomer at the 1999 British Comedy Awards for The 11 O'Clock Show. He created and starred as his character Ali G in Da Ali G Show (2000–2004), receiving two BAFTA Awards. His next television project, Who Is America? (2018) for Showtime, saw him nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor—Television Series Musical or Comedy. In 2019, he portrayed Eli Cohen in the limited series The Spy for OCS and Netflix, for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor—Miniseries or Television Film. Baron Cohen has produced and/or performed in comedic films, such as Ali G Indahouse (2002), Borat (2006) and its sequel Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), Brüno (2009), and The Dictator (2012). He has also appeared in dramatic films including Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Hugo (2011), Les Misérables (2012), and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020). In 2016, he starred in Grimsby and co-starred in Alice Through the Looking Glass. His voice acting roles include King Julien XIII in the Madagascar film series (2005–2012) and Uncle Ugo in Luca (2021). Baron Cohen has two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and six Golden Globe Award nominations, resulting in three wins: two for Best Actor—Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his work in the feature film Borat and its sequel, and he also won the award for Best Motion Picture—Musical or Comedy as producer of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. In 2021, he received Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for his performance as Abbot "Abbie" Hoffman in The Trial of the Chicago 7. He has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Actors Branch since 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sacha Baron Cohen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Birthday: October 13, 1971
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Gender: Male
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Madagascar
Overview: Four animal friends get a taste of the wild life when they break out of captivity at the Central Park Zoo and wash ashore on the island of Madagascar.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-25
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Overview: Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-01
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Overview: Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals find a way to escape from Madagascar when the penguins reassemble a wrecked airplane. The precariously repaired craft stays airborne just long enough to make it to the African continent. There the New Yorkers encounter members of their own species for the first time. Africa proves to be a wild place, but Alex and company wonder if it is better than their Central Park home.
Genres: Family Adventure Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-30
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Ali G, Innit
Overview: Ali G travels throughout Britain, interviewing unsuspecting leaders and politicians.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-15
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Super Toys
Overview: Two groovy ’70s toy sales reps go on a life-and-death mission to save themselves, their marriage and their live-wire 12-year-old daughter while on the road in Middle America.
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Original Language: en
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Overview: The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big, hairy American winning machine, Ricky has everything a dimwitted daredevil could want, a luxurious mansion, a smokin' hot wife and all the fast food he can eat. But Ricky's turbo-charged lifestyle hits an unexpected speed bump when he's bested by flamboyant Euro-idiot Jean Girard and reduced to a fear-ridden wreck.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-04
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Ali G Indahouse
Overview: Ali G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the evil Chancellor's plot to overthrow the Prime Minister of Great Britain. However, instead of bringing the Prime Minister down, Ali is embraced by the nation as the voice of youth and 'realness', making the Prime Minister and his government more popular than ever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-21
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Overview: The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-20
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Hugo
Overview: Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-22
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Ali G, Aiii
Overview: Clips from Da Ali G Show with unaired sketches from the show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-20
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Brüno
Overview: Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-08
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Ali G: Bling Bling
Overview: Bling Bling is an assortment of Ali G's interviews; a couple of them with possibly the last people in Britain who didn't realise that someone was pulling their leg and several with American grandees of various sorts, including economist JK Galbraith and former CIA director Admiral Stansfield Turner. The real selling point, however, is Ali G's undeniably spectacular Comic Relief interview
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-31
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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
Overview: Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to Europe to find the penguins and chimps who broke the bank at a Monte Carlo casino. When French animal-control officer Capitaine Chantel DuBois picks up their scent, Alex and company are forced to hide out in a traveling circus.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-06
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Mandrake the Magician
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Original Language: en
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Les Misérables
Overview: An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-18
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The Dictator
Overview: The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-15
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Madonna: Celebration - The Video Collection
Overview: Celebration: The Video Collection is a greatest videos DVD compilation by American singer-songwriter Madonna. Released by Warner Bros. Records on September 29, 2009, the release accompanied the greatest hits Celebration. The collection follows on from her other greatest videos compilations The Immaculate Collection (1990) and The Video Collection 93:99 (1999).
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-27
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Ali G-Da UK Seereez
Overview: This 2-disc edition DVD includes the complete UK series of Da Ali G Show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-24
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Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
Overview: The cast and crew of "Hugo" discuss the process of adapting the book to screen, the work of director Martin Scorsese, the story's themes, the origins of the book, casting, costuming, adding the dogs to the cast, working with 3D and its benefits for the film, set design and special effects and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-28
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Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
Overview: A humorous short piece that looks at Sacha Baron Cohen's approach to his role in the film "Hugo."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-28
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The Last Laugh
Overview: Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-18
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Chelm: The Smartest Place on Earth
Overview: Set in the mythical “Town of Fools” and originally told in Yiddish, this animated special shares the absurdist humor and interpretive questioning that is a nod to Jewish intellectual traditions and features a fresh take on the silly antics and exaggerated conflicts of the town, while also preserving the essence and heart of the classic folktales.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Overview: With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-18
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Ali G Before He Was Massiv
Overview: Documentary exploring comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's rise to fame through rare archive video of his early television appearances and interviews with former associates.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-26
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Out for Love... Be Back Shortly
Overview: Dan Katzir's autobiographical film expresses the outcry of his generation, as it struggles to find love and privacy amidst the reality of daily terror and hate. Mr. Katzir, a former officer and paratrooper intimately reveals his loves story with Iris, a charming girl about to begin her army service. A truly poetic film filled with beauty innocence and wisdom. This film is also an important historic document with rare and shocking footage from the era of assassinated prime minister Yitzchak Rabin. Made with much love and humour, this brave film examines Israel's most painful scars.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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Grimsby
Overview: Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-24
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Overview: Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-25
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The Best of Borat
Overview: Series of reports from Borat Karabzhanov, the Kazakhstani TV journalist, a character featuring in DA ALI G SHOW, as he travels in Britain looking at British culture and customs, including visits to Henley Regatta, Saville Row and a tea party, and looking at aspects such as fox hunting. Made up of footage taken from DA ALI G SHOW plus new footage and links comparing life in Britain and Kazakhstan
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-18
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Spyz
Overview: A short film made by the people who make Ali G. Used to sell the idea to Hollywood producers
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-06
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Past Forward
Overview: A surreal, futuristic silent dreamscape with multiple actors replaying scenes in shifting combinations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-15
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Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity
Overview: Seth Rogen and friends combine stand-up, sketches and music for an outrageous comedy special that could only come from the mind of Seth. Guests include Tiffany Haddish, Sarah Silverman, Michelle Wolf, John Mulaney, Michael Che, David Chang, Ike Barinholtz, Chelsea Peretti, Kumail Nanjiani, Jon Lovitz, Jeff Goldblum, Sacha Baron Cohen, Nick Kroll, Post Malone, Chris Hardwick, and Craig Robinson & The Nasty Delicious.
Genres: Comedy Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-06
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The Jolly Boys' Last Stand
Overview: The story revolves around a group of "Lads". The "leader" of this group of twenty somethings starts to head away the group's usual juvenile direction and head into career and marriage pursuits. The Best Man decides to create a video of the friends as a wedding present. In reality the video is supposed to help bring the leader back into the fold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-18
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The Trouble Agent
Overview: This is what happened after “The Brothers Grimsby” … Trouble Agent, is a sequel to Grimsby, and it actually stars Sacha Baron Cohen as his character, Nobby.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-11
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The Trial of the Chicago 7
Overview: What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-25
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Les Misérables: The History of the World's Greatest Story
Overview: From Victor Hugo`s classic French novel of the nineteenth century to Tom Hooper`s award winning blockbuster, Les Misérables has undergone one of the most successful transitions from book to stage to screen. In this new documentary, the scintillating journey of Hugo`s universal story is traced from book to stage to screen with contributions from those who have starred in and helped to create the entertainment phenomenon which has captured a place in everyone`s hearts. Helmed by entertainment and celebrity journalist Neil Sean, this insightful documentary traces the events of the Paris insurrection in 1832 and features excerpts from the restored 1978 Les Misérables lm starring Anthony Perkins alongside interviews with Frances Ruffelle, Hugh Jackman, Nick Jonas, Tom Hooper, Alfie Boe, Amanda Seyfried, Sir Cameron Mackintosh and Anne Hathaway.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-01
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
Overview: A general making-of piece featuring principal members of the cast and crew. A brief history of the demon barber is provided, as well as the actors' preparation for their singing roles and glimpses of the set design and general production.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-01
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Overview: 14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter, and reveals more about the culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-23
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Borat: VHS Cassette of Material Deemed “Sub-Acceptable” by Kazakhstan Ministry of Censorship and Circumcision
Overview: Never before seen footage from the award-winning movie Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-25
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Luca
Overview: Luca and his best friend Alberto experience an unforgettable summer on the Italian Riviera. But all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.
Genres: Animation Comedy Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-17
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Ladies First
Overview: An unrepentant womanizer finds himself in a parallel world dominated by women. A fiery female counterpart makes things even more complicated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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