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Sacha Baron Cohen Biography Actor, comedian. Born October 13, 1971, in London, England. While his comic personas Borat, Bruno, and Ali G have stirred up all kinds of controversy, Sacha Baron Cohen has largely hidden from the media spotlight. A middle child, he grew up in a London surburb. His father operated a number of clothing stores and his mother worked as a fitness instructor. Cohen developed a passion for breakdancing as a teen and belonged to a Jewish youth group through which he first started acting. After spending a year at a kibbutz in Israel, Cohen enrolled at Christ's College, part of Cambridge University. He was a history student and also appeared in productions by the Cambridge Footlights, the university's famed comedy troupe. Other Footlights alumni include John Cleese, Peter Cook, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, and Emma Thompson to name just a few. For his thesis, Cohen wrote about the involvement of Jewish Americans in the civil rights movement in the ...