Sasha Baron Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. The characters invented by him - the Moldavian journalist Alex Crickler, the Gianglist Ali Ji, the Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiev, the Austrian homosexual Bruno, the Arab dictator Aladin - made him one of the most recognizable comedic actors. Father, a descendant of Eastern European Jews, led a small business, traded men's clothing in his own store, mother-Israeli, nee Weisers, worked as an instructor in physiotherapy exercises.

In total, there were three children in their typical middle -class family. A few years later, Gerald, a native of London himself, moved his family to his small homeland. There Sasha went to primary school. Even then, he became interested in the scene and comedic art, later, in high school, he formed a Breakdance College, and played in parallel in amateur performances of the Youth Jewish group.

In his youth, Sasha Baron Cohen was already studying at the College of Christ at the University of Cambridge, when, after the third attempt, a dramatic circle was accepted in a prestigious among students. The artist himself said that it was this drama circle, as well as his participation in the Youth Jewish Theater, who made of him what came of him. In the theater, Cohen was involved in two performances: “Sirano de Bergerak” and the famous Broadway musical in the student variation “Violinist on the roof”.

In his student years, Sasha Baron Cohen, the desire to become famous and earned to Sasha and to the modeling business, for some time he appeared on the covers of fashionable publications. But his active nature and temperament demanded a way out: Cohen decided to break into television, starting with the forecast of the weather on the cable channel. From there he soon left to become the host of the new youth project.

Then, for the first time from Cohen, the Moldavian reporter Alexei Krikler, whom he came up with, in order to attract the attention of the audience to his first F2F show. Sasha Baron Cohen began with humorous sketches on television, he was a host with Natasha Kaplinski, who later became a famous television journalist, and paced a studio in a head-heading hat, demanding from the audience the performance of the Moldovan hymn.

His hero constantly appeared in the frame with short, but funny sketches. The program was successful in youth circles. Cohen began to look for new images, this was his Albanian reporter Christo, with whom he switched to Channel, where he worked for several years, simultaneously advertising the brand products. Together with his brother Erran, who began to write music, Sasha began to create his first videos and work in the genre of political satire.

The creative path of real popularity came to Cohen along with the image of Ali Ji. In this fictitious image, he first appeared on the Channel 4 channel, and soon began to lead his own sprinkle “Ali Ji show”. In the framework of this project, other characters first appeared in his performance, for example, Kazakh Borat and German homosexual Bruno. Ali Ji, Borat and Bruno-the first characters of Sasha Baron Cohen in the image of Ali Ji Cohen made fun of the youth club subculture of late X and white people, thoughtlessly imitating African pop culture, as they would say now, Haip.

Show Ali Ji. The first issue of the character went far beyond the limits of television. After that, HBO acquired the right to show the show. In the year, Cohen shot a pseudo -documentary film, the central character of which was Borat Sagdiev. The provocative comedy, of course, outraged the inhabitants of Kazakhstan, because it had little to do with reality.

However, Cohen joked not so much over Kazakhstan as the inhabitants of the first world countries, in whose heads, stereotypes ridicuable in Borat are rooted in the Borat. However, after several years, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan expressed gratitude to Cohen for his contribution to the development of Kazakh tourism. In America, the picture beat the ratings of cash fees, Cohen became the owner of the Golden Globe.

The MTV prize for the best comedy male role also went to him. The film of the same name, in which Cohen caustically ridiculed the realities of modern society, caused a stormy resonance. At the MTV award ceremony, the artist shutted the audience, going down the cable in the image of Bruno in an angel costume almost to Raper Eminem's head. Once, to the question of one of the TV presenters, homosexual Lee Cohen, he immediately retorted: yes.

Twenty -three percent. We found out with the help of simple calculations. But this figure varies. Sometimes it decreases to seventeen percent, sometimes rises to thirty. Depending on the situation. For example, when I starred in Borat, it was thirty -one percent. Another performance with his participation was remembered by the ceremony of presenting the Charlie Chaplin Award at Britannia Awards.

The cherished cane of the legendary comedian was handed by the actress, who allegedly played with Chaplin. A lady in a wheelchair went to the stage, Cohen accepted the prize from her hands and leaned on the cane, which after that broke. In front of the amazed audience, Sasha fell into the actress, she and the stroller fell from the stage.The cry of horror rang out in the hall, someone rushed to call the doctor ...

And the laureate continued to continue the thanksgiving. In the Dictator, another shocking comedy that makes fun of both authoritarian regimes and left -wing radicals, Sasha played an extravagant ruler of the fictional Arab country of Vadia, who escaped after the attempt in the United States. A frame from the movie "Dictator" for the advertising campaign of the movie "Dictator" Cohen was kicked out of the Oscar ceremony in the year.

The actor appeared on the red carpet in the outfit of the leader of Vadia. In the urn, which he held in his hands, according to Cohen, lay the ashes of a real dictator - whom Chen Ira died shortly before. Sasha Baron Cohen: A scandal on Oscar in the year Tandem Cohen and Mark Strong in the new film “Brothers from Grimsby” ridiculed the morals of the stereotypical London working class.

Sasha played a stupid football fan, and Mark - his brother, a special agent who failed. Together, this couple should prevent the country from a deadly threat. Fans of the Queen group, all as one said that the similarity between it is phenomenal. The love of shocking antics related to shocking: Sasha admired Freddy's extravagant parties. But since the work on the film began in and was not moved from the dead point through the fault of one of the participants of Queen, whose name Cohen did not advertise, then Sasha dropped out of the project in his own way.

As a result, Mercury was played by Rami Malek, and the film saw the light in Freddie Mercury and Sasha Baron Cohen very similar in the year, the mini-series of Gideon Raff “Spy” with the main character, Eli Cohen, who has the ability to instantly change the image, was released in the screens. Thanks to this, the Israeli intelligence officer even made his way to the near circle of the Syrian government.

It turned out that Cohen feels very comfortable in the genre of historical drama and knows how to be serious. The picture was announced for the Golden Globe Award in the nomination "Best Actor of the Mini-series." A couple met for five years before Aile waited for the engagement. And after it three more years passed and only in the year, after Fisher accepted Judaism, their wedding took place.

Sasha Baron Cohen and Aila Fisher, the woman supports all the undertakings of her spouse, starred in his films and is not at all embarrassed to go out with him, even if Cohen “forgets” to put on trousers. So, he appeared at a rally of ultra-right conservatives in the image of a musician-deliberate and sang several non-prudent songs. The texts sounded calls “Pushing the Ugansky flu to all liberals”, especially Barack Obama.

And Hillary Clinton “Singer” urged to send behind bars. Sasha Baron Cohen Trollite Rednecov, the organizers of the rally did not manage to turn off the sound or remove Sasha from the stage, as he prudently protected himself by the guys from his own security service in order to finish the performance. The artist’s creative life also does not stand still. Aaron Sorokin occupied Sasha Baron Cohen in his new project, the biographical thriller “The Court of the Chicago Seven”.

The story of the events of the year in Chicago, when the seven activists who opposed the war in Vietnam were charged with a government conspiracy. The picture, according to preliminary statements, will appear on the Netflix platform in October. In the year, Cohen secretly removed the “Borat” sequel, which is completely called “Borat: a gift in the form of a pornographic monkey, Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Pence in the name of the recent people of Kazakhstan.” The film was released before the US presidential election, its goal is to attract young and active Americans to them.

The trailer film won two Golden Globes as the best comedy film and the best comedy male role, but Borat's fans met him coolly. From the jokes, Sasha expected much more topicality and much less political correctness, but the spirit of time did not spare him. Sasha Baron Cohen on the set of the second “Borat” despite this, Sasha, who celebrated the fly in the year, is not going to “kill” his beloved hero.

In the near future, he plans to release a short film “American Lokdown Borat” and the series “Borat's exposure”. Sasha Baron Cohen: The latest news and articles.