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• SACHA BARON COHEN: I'M 23 PERCENT GAY (BUT IT FLUCTUAT)
• SACHA BARON COHEN SAYS ALL MEN HAVE HOMOSEXUAL TENNCI AND CLAIMS HE’S ‘23 PER CENT GAY’
• US GAY MPAIGNG GROUP NOT GLAAD WH BNO
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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
• SACHA BARON COHEN: ‘I’M 23 PER CENT GAY’

SACHA BARON COHEN: I'M 23 PERCENT GAY (BUT IT FLUCTUAT)

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Flamboyant, gay Atrian Brüno looks for new fame Ameri.

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SACHA BARON COHEN SAYS ALL MEN HAVE HOMOSEXUAL TENNCI AND CLAIMS HE’S ‘23 PER CENT GAY’

He overdid his "gayns" to such a vlent extreme that he forced reactns out of people, some of whom are probably plenty openmd. He's no champn of gay rights, but he is certaly not an enemy eher and he reacted like any normal person would that nightmarish suatn.

US GAY MPAIGNG GROUP NOT GLAAD WH BNO

In 2009's Bno, edian Sacha Baron Cohen plays a gay fashnista who ph the lims. : Sacha Baron Cohen plays Bno, an over-the-top, outlandish, gay Atrian fashnista, who scrib himself as "the host of the top-rated late night fashn show any German-speakg untry… apart om Germany. When one of them figured out Bno was gay, the productn team found themselv facg off agast four armed and angry men, one of whom actually aimed his gun at a crew member.

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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

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. Bno me out 2009 and se Sacha take on the role of a flamboyant gay televisn reporter. For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsActor and edian Sacha Baron Cohen has said all men have homosexual tennci, claimg he is “23 per cent gay”.

SACHA BARON COHEN: ‘I’M 23 PER CENT GAY’

Speakg to the Sun, Cohen said every man has “homosexual leangs”, addg the terms “straight” and “gay” are trivial.

“Straight or gay are silly terms. I’m 23 per cent gay. When I was dog Borat and I had the tticl at my ch I was 31, ” he said, referrg to his past role playg a ntroversial man om 44-year-old, who was ted at Cambridge Universy, said studi show that homophobic mal are attracted to men.

In the film’s fal scene, Baron Cohen’s gay character has renounced his homosexualy and is performg as an ultimate fighter named “Straight Dave.

The third character om “Da Ali G Show” to get a standalone movie, Brüno is a gay Atrian fashn journalist who travels to the U.