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• SACHA BARON COHEN: I'M 23 PERCENT GAY (BUT IT FLUCTUAT)
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HE CRACKED UP VIEWERS BY WAY OF HIS WANNABE RAPPER'S TERVIEWS WH UNSPECTG CELEBRI ON DA ALI G SHOW AND LATER TRODUCED {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}BORAT, AN OVERSEXED VISOR OM KAZAKHSTAN, AND BRüNO, AN ATRIAN FASHN RRPONNT, ON THE BIG SCREEN. BARON COHEN HAS ALSO BUTED ORIGAL CHARACTERS THE DICTATOR AND GRIMSBY, AND APPEARED OTHER FEATUR LIKE TALLAGA NIGHTS, SWEENEY TODD, HUGO AND L MISéRABL. EARLY LIFESACHA NOAM BARON COHEN WAS BORN ON OCTOBER 13, 1971, LONDON, ENGLAND. A MIDDLE CHILD, HE GREW UP A LONDON SURBURB. HIS FATHER OPERATED A NUMBER OF CLOTHG STOR AND HIS MOTHER WORKED AS A FNS STCTOR. BARON COHEN VELOPED A PASSN FOR BREAKDANCG AS A TEEN AND BELONGED TO A JEWISH YOUTH GROUP THROUGH WHICH HE FIRST STARTED ACTG. AFTER SPENDG A YEAR AT A KIBBUTZ ISRAEL, BARON COHEN ENROLLED AT CHRIST'S COLLEGE, PART OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSY. HE WAS A HISTORY STUNT AND ALSO APPEARED PRODUCTNS BY THE CAMBRIDGE FOOTLIGHTS, THE UNIVERSY'S FAMED EDY TROUPE. OTHER FOOTLIGHTS ALUMNI CLU JOHN CLEE, PETER COOK, STEPHEN FRY, HUGH LRIE AND EMMA THOMPSON, TO NAME JT A FEW. FOR HIS THIS, BARON COHEN WROTE ABOUT THE VOLVEMENT OF JEWISH AMERINS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THE SOUTH DURG THE 1950S AND 1960S. HE EVEN STAYED ATLANTA FOR A TIME TO DO SOME REARCH AND TERVIEW ACTIVIST ROBERT PARRIS MOS. WHILE HE WAS ENURAGED TO NTUE HIS STUDI ON THE GRADUATE LEVEL, BARON COHEN WANTED TO FOLLOW A DIFFERENT PATH UPON PLETG HIS GREE.'DA ALI G SHOW'LIKE MANY EDIANS BEFORE HIM, BARON COHEN WORKED AT HIS CRAFT DOG STAND-UP EDY. HIS FIRST TELEVISN GIG WAS AS A HOST OF A YOUTH PROGRAM. LANDG A PART ON THE LATE NIGHT EDY PROGRAM THE 11 O'CLOCK SHOW THE LATE 1990S, BARON COHEN STOOD OUT WH HIS CHARACTER ALI G, A WHE WANNABE RAPPER. HE WAS LATER FEATURED HIS OWN SERI, DA ALI G SHOW, WHICH HAD THE BLGED-OUT CHARACTER NDUCTG TERVIEWS WH POLICIANS, WRERS AND OTHER DISTGUISHED PEOPLE, SEEG HOW THEY RPOND TO ALL SORTS OF OFF-THE-WALL QUTNS. GROWG POPULARY, ALI G MA A MEO APPEARANCE THE MIC VIO FOR MADONNA'S 2000 H "MIC." HE THEN GOT HIS OWN FEATURE FILM, ALI G INDAHOE, 2002. WHILE THAT FILM WAS NOT A SUCCS, BARON DID GET TO TRODUCE AMERIN DIENC TO THE BARELY LERATE, NEARLY PREHENSIBLE CHARACTER THROUGH A NEW VERSN OF DA ALI G SHOW. TALKG WH FORMER UNED NATNS SECRETARY-GENERAL BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI, HE ASKED "IS DISNEYLAND A MEMBER OF THE U.N.?" AND 60 MUT MENTATOR ANDY ROONEY GOT SO AGGRAVATED WH ALI G THAT HE END THE TERVIEW. BUT THIS WAS NOT BEFORE ALI G ASKED THE NEWS VETERAN, "HAS JOURNALISTS EVER PUT OUT TOMORROW'S NEWS BY MISTAKE?" BARON COHEN FACED HIS SHARE OF CRICISM FOR PERPETUATG NEGATIVE RACIAL AND CULTURAL STEREOTYP ON HIS PROGRAM, EVEN RECEIVG THREATS TO HIS PERSONAL WELL-BEG, ACRDG TO SOME REPORTS.BORAT CONTROVERSYTHE NEXT OF BARON COHEN'S CHARACTERS TO H BIG WAS BORAT SAGDIYEV, AN OVERSEXED, BIGOTED MAN-CHILD TELEVISN PERSONALY OM KAZAKHSTAN. WH HIS ORIGS DA ALI G SHOW, BORAT BEME THE STAR OF HIS OWN MOCUMENTARY FILM 2006. BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNGS OF AMERI FOR MAKE BENEF GLOR NATN OF KAZAKHSTAN WAS A SURPRISE SMASH, BRGG MORE THAN $128 LN AT THE BOX OFFICE. WH THE PREMISE OF MAKG A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE UNED STAT, BORAT TRAVELED THE UNTRY, TERVIEWG PEOPLE AND GETTG VOLVED SOME UNUAL AND SOMETIM DISTURBG SUATNS. AS THE FILM'S WEBSE EXPLAED, BORAT'S "BACKWARDS BEHAVR GENERAT STRONG REACTNS AROUND HIM, EXPOSG PREJUDIC AND HYPOCRISI AMERIN CULTURE." TO DO THE SATIRE, BARON COHEN REMAED CHARACTER THROUGHOUT THE FILMG. "I HAD TO BE THAT WAY ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT, BEE EVEN IF THE TIT TAIL HAD GONE AWRY, ULD'VE MA THEM SPIC," HE TOLD THE LOS ANGEL TIM 2007. THE NVCG NATURE OF THIS PERSONA LED TO AN ANTI-SEMIC SGALONG A BAR AND AN ENUNTER WH SOME BTER AT BOYS AN RV WHO SPEWED A NUMBER OF MISOGYNISTIC AND PREJUDICIAL REMARKS, AMONG OTHER ADVENTUR. NOT EVERYONE WAS LGHG, HOWEVER. SEVERAL LAWSUS WERE FILED AFTER THE FILM'S RELEASE BY UNHAPPY PARTICIPANTS—CLUDG THE NOW NOTOR AT BOYS — CLAIMG THAT THEY WERE DUPED BY BARON COHEN. HE RPOND TO THIS CHARGE BY SAYG, "THIS WASN'T CANDID CAMERA ... I DON'T BUY THE ARGUMENT THAT, 'OH, I WOULDN'T HAVE ACTED SO RACIST OR ANTI-SEMIC IF I'D KNOWN THIS FILM WAS BEG SHOWN AMERI.' THAT'S NO EXCE," HE TOLD THE LOS ANGEL TIM. THE ERNMENT OF KAZAKHSTAN WAS ALSO NOT HAPPY WH HOW THE UNTRY WAS PORTRAYED ON SCREEN. IN THE FILM, BORAT SHOWED SOME OF THE PEOPLE HE ENUNTERED EXPLIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF HIM AND HIS "SISTER" AND SAID THAT THE UNTRY PRODUCED WE MA OM HORSE URE. YERZHAN ASHYKBAYEV, A SPOKPERSON FOR THE UNTRY'S FOREIGN MISTRY, SAID THEY WERE NSIRG LEGAL ACTN AGAST BARON COHEN. "WE DO NOT LE OUT THAT MR. COHEN IS SERVG SOMEONE'S POLIL ORR SIGNED TO PRENT KAZAKHSTAN AND S PEOPLE A ROGATORY WAY," HE SAID. DPE THE NTROVERSY AND THE LOOMG LEGAL BATTL, BORAT SRED BIG WH MOVIE GOERS AND CRICS ALIKE. BARON COHEN WON A GOLN GLOBE AWARD FOR BT PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR A MOTN PICTURE - MIL OR COMEDY AND EARNED AN AMY AWARD NOMATN FOR BT ADAPTED SCREENPLAY.BARON COHEN BROUGHT BORAT BACK TO LIFE THE 2020 SEQUEL BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM. THE MOVIE WENT ON TO W THE 2021 GOLN GLOBE FOR BT MOTN PICTURE - MIL OR COMEDY AND BARON COHEN WON BT PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR A MOTN PICTURE - MIL OR COMEDY.READ MORE: HOW SACHA BARON COHEN CREATED THE CHARACTER BORAT'BRüNO' AND 'THE DICTATOR'NEXT UP FOR THE ACTOR-EDIAN-PROVOTR WAS A FILM ABOUT ANOTHER ONE OF HIS CHARACTERS — BRüNO, A GAY, ATRIAN FASHN RRPONNT. THE FILM, BRüNO, WAS RELEASED JULY 2009.THE FILM AND S STAR GENERATED NTROVERSY EVEN BEFORE MAKG TO THEATERS; MAY 2009, A WOMAN FILED A LAWSU OVER CLAIMS THAT SHE WAS JURED DURG PRODUCTN OF THE FILM. SOON AFTERWARD, AT THE 2009 MTV MOVIE AWARDS, BARON COHEN, DRSED AS AN ANGEL, LAND RAPPER EMEM'S LAP AFTER A "PROBLEM" WH HIS WIRE HARNS. BARON COHEN THEN EXPOSED HIMSELF ONSTAGE TO EMEM'S CURSG AND THREATS. IT WAS LATER REVEALED THAT THE DUO HAD PLANNED THE GAG TOGETHER.THE ATTENTN HELPED FUEL SUCCS AT THE BOX OFFICE, AS BRüNO WAS AT NO. 1 FOLLOWG S OPENG WEEKEND. CRICS LARGELY RPOND WELL TO THE FEATURE, TOO, THOUGH SOME WERE TROUBLED BY THE OVER-THE-TOP LAMPOONG OF LGBT CULTURE.THE DICTATOR (2012) TOOK ELEMENTS OM THE IC'S PREV FILMS, AS FEATURED BARON COHEN AS ADMIRAL-GENERAL ALAEN, DICTATOR OF THE FICTNAL REPUBLIC OF WADIYA, ON HIS FISH-OUT-OF-WATER JOURNEY THROUGH NEW YORK CY. THIS TIME, THE SCREEN ACTN WAS DRAMATIZED — AS OPPOSED TO GENERATG LGHS OM UNWTG PARTICIPANTS — AND ALTHOUGH OFFERED BARON COHEN'S UAL ASSORTMENT OF OUTRAGEO GAGS, THE CRIL RPONSE WAS NOT AS FAVORABLE AS THOSE OM EARLIER EFFORTS.'TALLAGA NIGHTS' AND OTHER FILM ROLOUTSI OF HIS OWN CHARACTERS, BARON COHEN HAS TACKLED OTHER ROL ON THE BIG SCREEN. HE APPEARED AS A FRENCH RACE R DRIVER TALLAGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY (2006), WH WILL FARRELL, AND THE MIL SWEENEY TODD (2007), WH JOHNNY DEPP. TURNG TO VOICEOVER WORK, BARON COHEN PLAYED JULIEN, KG OF THE LEMURS, MADAGASR (2005) AND S TWO SEQUELS. ADDNALLY, THE ACTOR HAD A PROMENT SUPPORTG ROLE HUGO (2011), AS THE STATN SPECTOR, AND RETURNED TO THE MIL GENRE WH THE STAR-STUDD ST OF L MISéRABL (2012).BARON COHEN WAS BACK TO HIS OLD WAYS GRIMSBY (2016), A RNCHY, OUTRAGEO ACTN-EDY WHICH HIS CHARACTER TEAMS WH HIS MI6 AGENT BROTHER TO SAVE THE WORLD. HE THEN APPEARED ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKG GLASS (2016), THE SEQUEL TO THE 2010 ADAPTATN OF ALICE WONRLAND, AS THE Y-LIKE TIME, AND 2020'S THE TRIAL OF CHIGO 7, WHICH EARNED HIM SEVERAL AWARD NOMATNS CLUDG THE OSR FOR BT ACTOR A SUPPORTG ROLE.'WHO IS AMERI?'IN JULY 2018, SHORTLY AFTER NEWS SURFACED THAT BARON COHEN WAS TALKS WH SHOWTIME FOR A NEW TERVIEW PROGRAM, WAS ANNOUNCED THAT WHO IS AMERI? WOULD BUT ON THE BLE WORK ON JULY 15.BARON COHEN, WHO TWEETED AN OLD VIO CLIP OF A SEEMGLY IRRATED DONALD TMP SULTG HIM ON JULY 4, FOLLOWED WH ANOTHER CLIP, OM HIS UPG PROGRAM, WHICH HE GETS FORMER VICE PRINT DICK CHENEY TO SIGN HIS "WATERBOARDG K." ADDG MORE TRIGUE, ON JULY 10, FORMER ALASKA GOVERNOR SARAH PAL WROTE A LENGTHY FACEBOOK POST WHICH SHE PLAED ABOUT BEG DUPED TO AGREEG TO AN TERVIEW WH A DISABLED U.S. VETERAN, WHO TURNED OUT TO BE BARON COHEN DISGUISE.IN THE WHO IS AMERI? PREMIERE, BARON COHEN BUTED HIS RIGHT-WG NSPIRACY THEORIST BILLY WAYNE RUDDICK FOR AN TERVIEW WH BERNIE SANRS, LEAVG THE VERMONT SENATOR BEFUDDLED WH HIS PROPOSAL FOR WEALTH REDISTRIBUTN. OTHER NEW ALTER EGOS CLUD ISRAELI ANTI-TERRORIST EXPERT ERRAN MORAD, WHO NVC FORMER SENATE MAJORY LEAR TRENT LOTT AND OTHER STG NGRSMEN TO SUPPORT HIS "KRGUARDIANS" PROGRAM OF ARMG CHILDREN.MARRIAGE TO ISLA FISHER AND CHILDREN WHILE BARON COHEN IS EXTREMELY PRIVATE ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE, ONE B OF GOOD NEWS WAS MA PUBLIC 2007: HE AND HIS THEN-FIANCéE, ATRALIAN ACTRS ISLA FISHER, WELED THEIR FIRST CHILD, DGHTER OLIVE, THAT OCTOBER. FOLLOWG THEIR MARRIAGE PARIS MARCH 2010, THEY HAD TWO MORE CHILDREN — DGHTER ELULA, AUGT 2010, AND SON MONTGOMERY, MARCH {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
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HE CRACKED UP VIEWERS BY WAY OF HIS WANNABE RAPPER'S TERVIEWS WH UNSPECTG CELEBRI ON DA ALI G SHOW AND LATER TRODUCED {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}BORAT, AN OVERSEXED VISOR OM KAZAKHSTAN, AND BRüNO, AN ATRIAN FASHN RRPONNT, ON THE BIG SCREEN. BARON COHEN HAS ALSO BUTED ORIGAL CHARACTERS THE DICTATOR AND GRIMSBY, AND APPEARED OTHER FEATUR LIKE TALLAGA NIGHTS, SWEENEY TODD, HUGO AND L MISéRABL. EARLY LIFESACHA NOAM BARON COHEN WAS BORN ON OCTOBER 13, 1971, LONDON, ENGLAND. A MIDDLE CHILD, HE GREW UP A LONDON SURBURB. HIS FATHER OPERATED A NUMBER OF CLOTHG STOR AND HIS MOTHER WORKED AS A FNS STCTOR. BARON COHEN VELOPED A PASSN FOR BREAKDANCG AS A TEEN AND BELONGED TO A JEWISH YOUTH GROUP THROUGH WHICH HE FIRST STARTED ACTG. AFTER SPENDG A YEAR AT A KIBBUTZ ISRAEL, BARON COHEN ENROLLED AT CHRIST'S COLLEGE, PART OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSY. HE WAS A HISTORY STUNT AND ALSO APPEARED PRODUCTNS BY THE CAMBRIDGE FOOTLIGHTS, THE UNIVERSY'S FAMED EDY TROUPE. OTHER FOOTLIGHTS ALUMNI CLU JOHN CLEE, PETER COOK, STEPHEN FRY, HUGH LRIE AND EMMA THOMPSON, TO NAME JT A FEW. FOR HIS THIS, BARON COHEN WROTE ABOUT THE VOLVEMENT OF JEWISH AMERINS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THE SOUTH DURG THE 1950S AND 1960S. HE EVEN STAYED ATLANTA FOR A TIME TO DO SOME REARCH AND TERVIEW ACTIVIST ROBERT PARRIS MOS. WHILE HE WAS ENURAGED TO NTUE HIS STUDI ON THE GRADUATE LEVEL, BARON COHEN WANTED TO FOLLOW A DIFFERENT PATH UPON PLETG HIS GREE.'DA ALI G SHOW'LIKE MANY EDIANS BEFORE HIM, BARON COHEN WORKED AT HIS CRAFT DOG STAND-UP EDY. HIS FIRST TELEVISN GIG WAS AS A HOST OF A YOUTH PROGRAM. LANDG A PART ON THE LATE NIGHT EDY PROGRAM THE 11 O'CLOCK SHOW THE LATE 1990S, BARON COHEN STOOD OUT WH HIS CHARACTER ALI G, A WHE WANNABE RAPPER. HE WAS LATER FEATURED HIS OWN SERI, DA ALI G SHOW, WHICH HAD THE BLGED-OUT CHARACTER NDUCTG TERVIEWS WH POLICIANS, WRERS AND OTHER DISTGUISHED PEOPLE, SEEG HOW THEY RPOND TO ALL SORTS OF OFF-THE-WALL QUTNS. GROWG POPULARY, ALI G MA A MEO APPEARANCE THE MIC VIO FOR MADONNA'S 2000 H "MIC." HE THEN GOT HIS OWN FEATURE FILM, ALI G INDAHOE, 2002. WHILE THAT FILM WAS NOT A SUCCS, BARON DID GET TO TRODUCE AMERIN DIENC TO THE BARELY LERATE, NEARLY PREHENSIBLE CHARACTER THROUGH A NEW VERSN OF DA ALI G SHOW. TALKG WH FORMER UNED NATNS SECRETARY-GENERAL BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI, HE ASKED "IS DISNEYLAND A MEMBER OF THE U.N.?" AND 60 MUT MENTATOR ANDY ROONEY GOT SO AGGRAVATED WH ALI G THAT HE END THE TERVIEW. BUT THIS WAS NOT BEFORE ALI G ASKED THE NEWS VETERAN, "HAS JOURNALISTS EVER PUT OUT TOMORROW'S NEWS BY MISTAKE?" BARON COHEN FACED HIS SHARE OF CRICISM FOR PERPETUATG NEGATIVE RACIAL AND CULTURAL STEREOTYP ON HIS PROGRAM, EVEN RECEIVG THREATS TO HIS PERSONAL WELL-BEG, ACRDG TO SOME REPORTS.BORAT CONTROVERSYTHE NEXT OF BARON COHEN'S CHARACTERS TO H BIG WAS BORAT SAGDIYEV, AN OVERSEXED, BIGOTED MAN-CHILD TELEVISN PERSONALY OM KAZAKHSTAN. WH HIS ORIGS DA ALI G SHOW, BORAT BEME THE STAR OF HIS OWN MOCUMENTARY FILM 2006. BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNGS OF AMERI FOR MAKE BENEF GLOR NATN OF KAZAKHSTAN WAS A SURPRISE SMASH, BRGG MORE THAN $128 LN AT THE BOX OFFICE. WH THE PREMISE OF MAKG A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE UNED STAT, BORAT TRAVELED THE UNTRY, TERVIEWG PEOPLE AND GETTG VOLVED SOME UNUAL AND SOMETIM DISTURBG SUATNS. AS THE FILM'S WEBSE EXPLAED, BORAT'S "BACKWARDS BEHAVR GENERAT STRONG REACTNS AROUND HIM, EXPOSG PREJUDIC AND HYPOCRISI AMERIN CULTURE." TO DO THE SATIRE, BARON COHEN REMAED CHARACTER THROUGHOUT THE FILMG. "I HAD TO BE THAT WAY ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT, BEE EVEN IF THE TIT TAIL HAD GONE AWRY, ULD'VE MA THEM SPIC," HE TOLD THE LOS ANGEL TIM 2007. THE NVCG NATURE OF THIS PERSONA LED TO AN ANTI-SEMIC SGALONG A BAR AND AN ENUNTER WH SOME BTER AT BOYS AN RV WHO SPEWED A NUMBER OF MISOGYNISTIC AND PREJUDICIAL REMARKS, AMONG OTHER ADVENTUR. NOT EVERYONE WAS LGHG, HOWEVER. SEVERAL LAWSUS WERE FILED AFTER THE FILM'S RELEASE BY UNHAPPY PARTICIPANTS—CLUDG THE NOW NOTOR AT BOYS — CLAIMG THAT THEY WERE DUPED BY BARON COHEN. HE RPOND TO THIS CHARGE BY SAYG, "THIS WASN'T CANDID CAMERA ... I DON'T BUY THE ARGUMENT THAT, 'OH, I WOULDN'T HAVE ACTED SO RACIST OR ANTI-SEMIC IF I'D KNOWN THIS FILM WAS BEG SHOWN AMERI.' THAT'S NO EXCE," HE TOLD THE LOS ANGEL TIM. THE ERNMENT OF KAZAKHSTAN WAS ALSO NOT HAPPY WH HOW THE UNTRY WAS PORTRAYED ON SCREEN. IN THE FILM, BORAT SHOWED SOME OF THE PEOPLE HE ENUNTERED EXPLIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF HIM AND HIS "SISTER" AND SAID THAT THE UNTRY PRODUCED WE MA OM HORSE URE. YERZHAN ASHYKBAYEV, A SPOKPERSON FOR THE UNTRY'S FOREIGN MISTRY, SAID THEY WERE NSIRG LEGAL ACTN AGAST BARON COHEN. "WE DO NOT LE OUT THAT MR. COHEN IS SERVG SOMEONE'S POLIL ORR SIGNED TO PRENT KAZAKHSTAN AND S PEOPLE A ROGATORY WAY," HE SAID. DPE THE NTROVERSY AND THE LOOMG LEGAL BATTL, BORAT SRED BIG WH MOVIE GOERS AND CRICS ALIKE. BARON COHEN WON A GOLN GLOBE AWARD FOR BT PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR A MOTN PICTURE - MIL OR COMEDY AND EARNED AN AMY AWARD NOMATN FOR BT ADAPTED SCREENPLAY.BARON COHEN BROUGHT BORAT BACK TO LIFE THE 2020 SEQUEL BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM. THE MOVIE WENT ON TO W THE 2021 GOLN GLOBE FOR BT MOTN PICTURE - MIL OR COMEDY AND BARON COHEN WON BT PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR A MOTN PICTURE - MIL OR COMEDY.READ MORE: HOW SACHA BARON COHEN CREATED THE CHARACTER BORAT'BRüNO' AND 'THE DICTATOR'NEXT UP FOR THE ACTOR-EDIAN-PROVOTR WAS A FILM ABOUT ANOTHER ONE OF HIS CHARACTERS — BRüNO, A GAY, ATRIAN FASHN RRPONNT. THE FILM, BRüNO, WAS RELEASED JULY 2009.THE FILM AND S STAR GENERATED NTROVERSY EVEN BEFORE MAKG TO THEATERS; MAY 2009, A WOMAN FILED A LAWSU OVER CLAIMS THAT SHE WAS JURED DURG PRODUCTN OF THE FILM. SOON AFTERWARD, AT THE 2009 MTV MOVIE AWARDS, BARON COHEN, DRSED AS AN ANGEL, LAND RAPPER EMEM'S LAP AFTER A "PROBLEM" WH HIS WIRE HARNS. BARON COHEN THEN EXPOSED HIMSELF ONSTAGE TO EMEM'S CURSG AND THREATS. IT WAS LATER REVEALED THAT THE DUO HAD PLANNED THE GAG TOGETHER.THE ATTENTN HELPED FUEL SUCCS AT THE BOX OFFICE, AS BRüNO WAS AT NO. 1 FOLLOWG S OPENG WEEKEND. CRICS LARGELY RPOND WELL TO THE FEATURE, TOO, THOUGH SOME WERE TROUBLED BY THE OVER-THE-TOP LAMPOONG OF LGBT CULTURE.THE DICTATOR (2012) TOOK ELEMENTS OM THE IC'S PREV FILMS, AS FEATURED BARON COHEN AS ADMIRAL-GENERAL ALAEN, DICTATOR OF THE FICTNAL REPUBLIC OF WADIYA, ON HIS FISH-OUT-OF-WATER JOURNEY THROUGH NEW YORK CY. THIS TIME, THE SCREEN ACTN WAS DRAMATIZED — AS OPPOSED TO GENERATG LGHS OM UNWTG PARTICIPANTS — AND ALTHOUGH OFFERED BARON COHEN'S UAL ASSORTMENT OF OUTRAGEO GAGS, THE CRIL RPONSE WAS NOT AS FAVORABLE AS THOSE OM EARLIER EFFORTS.'TALLAGA NIGHTS' AND OTHER FILM ROLOUTSI OF HIS OWN CHARACTERS, BARON COHEN HAS TACKLED OTHER ROL ON THE BIG SCREEN. HE APPEARED AS A FRENCH RACE R DRIVER TALLAGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY (2006), WH WILL FARRELL, AND THE MIL SWEENEY TODD (2007), WH JOHNNY DEPP. TURNG TO VOICEOVER WORK, BARON COHEN PLAYED JULIEN, KG OF THE LEMURS, MADAGASR (2005) AND S TWO SEQUELS. ADDNALLY, THE ACTOR HAD A PROMENT SUPPORTG ROLE HUGO (2011), AS THE STATN SPECTOR, AND RETURNED TO THE MIL GENRE WH THE STAR-STUDD ST OF L MISéRABL (2012).BARON COHEN WAS BACK TO HIS OLD WAYS GRIMSBY (2016), A RNCHY, OUTRAGEO ACTN-EDY WHICH HIS CHARACTER TEAMS WH HIS MI6 AGENT BROTHER TO SAVE THE WORLD. HE THEN APPEARED ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKG GLASS (2016), THE SEQUEL TO THE 2010 ADAPTATN OF ALICE WONRLAND, AS THE Y-LIKE TIME, AND 2020'S THE TRIAL OF CHIGO 7, WHICH EARNED HIM SEVERAL AWARD NOMATNS CLUDG THE OSR FOR BT ACTOR A SUPPORTG ROLE.'WHO IS AMERI?'IN JULY 2018, SHORTLY AFTER NEWS SURFACED THAT BARON COHEN WAS TALKS WH SHOWTIME FOR A NEW TERVIEW PROGRAM, WAS ANNOUNCED THAT WHO IS AMERI? WOULD BUT ON THE BLE WORK ON JULY 15.BARON COHEN, WHO TWEETED AN OLD VIO CLIP OF A SEEMGLY IRRATED DONALD TMP SULTG HIM ON JULY 4, FOLLOWED WH ANOTHER CLIP, OM HIS UPG PROGRAM, WHICH HE GETS FORMER VICE PRINT DICK CHENEY TO SIGN HIS "WATERBOARDG K." ADDG MORE TRIGUE, ON JULY 10, FORMER ALASKA GOVERNOR SARAH PAL WROTE A LENGTHY FACEBOOK POST WHICH SHE PLAED ABOUT BEG DUPED TO AGREEG TO AN TERVIEW WH A DISABLED U.S. VETERAN, WHO TURNED OUT TO BE BARON COHEN DISGUISE.IN THE WHO IS AMERI? PREMIERE, BARON COHEN BUTED HIS RIGHT-WG NSPIRACY THEORIST BILLY WAYNE RUDDICK FOR AN TERVIEW WH BERNIE SANRS, LEAVG THE VERMONT SENATOR BEFUDDLED WH HIS PROPOSAL FOR WEALTH REDISTRIBUTN. OTHER NEW ALTER EGOS CLUD ISRAELI ANTI-TERRORIST EXPERT ERRAN MORAD, WHO NVC FORMER SENATE MAJORY LEAR TRENT LOTT AND OTHER STG NGRSMEN TO SUPPORT HIS "KRGUARDIANS" PROGRAM OF ARMG CHILDREN.MARRIAGE TO ISLA FISHER AND CHILDREN WHILE BARON COHEN IS EXTREMELY PRIVATE ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE, ONE B OF GOOD NEWS WAS MA PUBLIC 2007: HE AND HIS THEN-FIANCéE, ATRALIAN ACTRS ISLA FISHER, WELED THEIR FIRST CHILD, DGHTER OLIVE, THAT OCTOBER. FOLLOWG THEIR MARRIAGE PARIS MARCH 2010, THEY HAD TWO MORE CHILDREN — DGHTER ELULA, AUGT 2010, AND SON MONTGOMERY, MARCH {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

PASSAU, Germany, June 16, 2009 — -- Brish edian Sacha Baron Cohen's new movie about a fictnal gay Atrian fashn fanatic who wants to be "the most famo Atrian sce Adolf Hler" has some Atrians up arms even before s release next lead character, Bno, sometim spelled Brüno, is also a TV prenter reportg for the "Voice of Atrian Youth TV. "I have three thgs mon wh the lead character Bno; I'm male, I'm gay and I'm Atrian.

For example, when asked if he's gay, Cohen (who is married to actrs Isla Fisher) rpond, "I'm 23 percent gay. I'm 23 percent gay, " but add that the number tends to fluctuate.

GAY ATRIAN IN SHERMAN OAKS LOOKS SPICLY LIKE SACHA BARON COHEN

In the new edy Brüno, Sacha Baron Cohen plays an outlandish gay Atrian TV host and fashn reporter who wreaks havoc the Uned Stat. Do Atria have an pecially thrivg gay muny? ) In terms of gay-iendls, only started tchg up wh s Wtern European unterparts, like England and Germany, the last or so.

But nowadays, Vienna do have bars, clubs, rtrants, and bath ho that ter to the gay muny. Vienna even markets self to gay tourists, boastg s history of “[g]ay emperors, generals or posers of days gone by.

BNO STAR SACHA BARON COHEN: I’M 23 PERCENT GAY

Homosexualy was illegal Atria until 1971. At that pot, the all-out ban on gay sex acts was replaced by another set of rtrictns, cludg a ban on gay and lbian anizatns, a ban on male prostutn (female prostutn is legal), and an age-of-nsent law that prohibed sex between a male olr than 18 and a male younger than 18 (even though the heterosexual age of nsent was 14). Atria only started allowg gay anizatns to operate aboveboard after joed the European Unn 1995 and didn’t repeal the age of nsent law until 2002.

Gay marriage remas illegal Atria, although a uple is allowed to marry if one member gets a sex change. Atria has few proment gay figur.

SACHA BARON COHEN ATTEMPTS TO APPEASE GAY MUNY BY POSG FOR ATTU MAGAZE

Perhaps the most famo Atrian homosexual was J Hair (no relatn to Alfons), the longtime lear of the far-right Atrian Freedom Party and Alliance for the Future of Atria, who died a r crash after leavg a gay bar. ” For years, a T-shirt monly seen at gay pri paras said, “I’m Hair’s Boyiend.

The movie went on to w the 2021 Goln Globe for Bt Motn Picture - Mil or Comedy and Baron Cohen won Bt Performance by an Actor a Motn Picture - Mil or MORE: How Sacha Baron Cohen Created the Character Borat'Brüno' and 'The Dictator'Next up for the actor-edian-provotr was a film about another one of his characters — Brüno, a gay, Atrian fashn rrponnt.

· I saw Sacha Baron Cohen dog filmg as Bno (gay Atrian) at On Your Marks Stud Sherman Oaks on Feb. ‘Bno’ star Sacha Baron Cohen is apparently exactly 23 percent gay. He discsed the orig of his gay Atrian character Bno, speakg about bag “rednecks” and homophob as the character, and narrowly pg a large amount of vlent, who is married to Atralian actor Isla Fisher, said: “Particularly Bno, ’s a different form of prejudice.

You have anti-Semism, you have racism, but homophobia means fear of the homosexual. He ntued: “Where there’s fear that n turn to vlence – and people who don’t like gay people are sred of them, and that n transn to vlence pretty quickly.

“There was a study where they found out (…) homophob who are most likely to be vlent agast gay people are those who had some crease blood show to their gro while seeg naked men. “Straight or gay… they’re silly terms bee ’s a sle, and everyone is somewhere on the sle.

He joked: “I’m 23 percent gay. I’m 23 percent gay.

They clu a journalist om England named Ali G, and Bno, a flamboyantly gay Atrian fashn reporter. Sacha Baron Cohen plays a flamboyantly gay Atrian fashn reporter the new film Bno.

Bt-known for the fx documentary Borat, which he played a bumblg reporter om Kazakhstan, Cohen plays a flamboyantly gay Atrian fashn reporter his new film Bno. Sacha Baron Cohen is hopg to w over some of his fierct crics wh his latt magaze Bno star appears on the ver of Attu this month followg accatns om some sectns of the gay muny that his character promot rather than satiris ntroversial edian, who plays a flamboyant Atrian signer his latt big screen film, peeled right off for the ont ver of the UK's bt sellg gay magaze.

Sacha Baron Cohen appears on the ver of gay magaze Attu as his ntroversial alter ego Bno The photograph appears unr the tag le: 'Comedy geni of the most homophobic film ever ma? 'In the terview, which Cohen nducted as his outrageo alter ego, he c his favoure gay ins as X Factor boss Simon Cowell and sgers Kylie and Dannii Mogue.

Bno, who has also appeared on GQ and Marie Claire, said: 'Simon Cowell is my gay in. ' The edian, seen here at the LA premiere last week, has jetted around the globe to promote his new film The ver follows claims Bno is offensive and perpetuat gay Robson, of the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, said last month: 'Some people our muny may like this movie, but many are not gog to be OK wh .

'Actor Peter Paige, om US TV seri Queer As Folk, echoed the sentiment, sayg: 'When you see a Bno clip a room full of gay men, everyone lghs and ’s fe. Universal Pictur cled to nfirm or ny the reports but a statement, the stud said the 'overwhelmg majory of the dience' would unrstand that the film seeks to lampoon homophobia. Sacha Baron Cohen attempts to appease gay muny by posg for Attu magaze.