He was voted Personality of the year at the TV Quick awards in London, England, UK. [4 September 2000]
Studied History at Christ's College, Cambridge
Engaged to Australian actress Isla Fisher.
In contrast to his characters, he is a soft-spoken, gentlemanly Cambridge man who considered pursuing a PhD before going into comedy.
He plays three principal characters on "Da Ali G Show" (2003). The title character is Ali G, a lower-class white male who acts like an Jamaican Londoner and enrages his politically active and powerful guests with stupid questions. Another one is the Khazakstani TV reporter Borat, who naively searches for porn and outlets for his scatological, accidental humor and anti-Semitism. The last one is the superficial Austrian fashion-expert Bruno, who often talks up heartless fashionistas and makes macho men uncomfortable with his blatant homosexuality.
Gave 2004 Harvard class day address in character as Ali G.
As a rule, he only appears on chat shows in character (usually as Ali G or Borat) rather than as himself.
His cousin, Simon Baron Cohen, is a preeminent psychologist who became famous for his theory that autism is caused by an "extreme male brain."
Went to Haberdashers' Aske's School for Boys in Hertfordshire, the same school as "Little Britain" (2003) star Matt Lucas, comedian David Baddiel and former Formula 1 champion Damon Hill.
It took 6 weeks for Sacha to grow facial hair and eyebrows to play Borat.
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