Biography
The creative biography of the British Artist Sasha Baron Coen can not be called simple. He was able to succeed due to the creation of images of fictional characters: Dzhanglista and Kokney, a reporter from Kazakhstan, General Admiral and Austrian homosexual. Another public remembered Sasha with shocking tricks at the ceremonies of presenting prestigious awards. Now the artist continues to surprise the public by performances and original roles.Childhood and youth
The British actor and comedian was born on October 13, 1971 in Surrey County in the UK. The parents of the boy (by the nationality of the Jews), besides him, brought up two more children. The family was secured - the father kept a male clothing store, so that siblings did not need anything. One of the brothers, Erran Baron Cohen, became a composer. Later, they worked with Sasha together over the films.
Soon the family moved to the elite area of London. In childhood, Cohen studied in a prestigious school, and after graduation he entered the college of Christ in Cambridge, where he received a good education. There he opened an acting talent. He started with amateur student performances: Baron Cohen brightened on stage in the "Sirano Bergerac" and "Crimp on the roof".
In his youth, a pretty guy tried himself in the model business. He was lucky - soon the photographs of the young man were decorated with the covers and pages of fashion magazines. But this is a little the future star, he constantly looking for a place in life, tried to lead the weather forecast on the cable canal.
In 1995, Channel - 4 channel announced a competition for the position of lead. Sasha sent the film to the TV players on which he performed as Cristo, the correspondent from Albania. The producers approved a guy's candidacy, and the next few years Baron Cohen worked on this channel, participated in several projects and starred in advertising.
At the end of the college, the graduate got a job in a comedian club owned by Brother Sasha. The guy attracted political satire. In 1998, Sasha removed a two-minute roller in which he betrayed himself for the leading fashion show of the alternative orientation.
However, popularity came to him later when he created the image of Raper Ali Ji. A fictional character often began to appear on the channel Channel - 4, and in 2000 he had his own transfer. Acute satirical program enjoyed success in the audience. On the wave of popularity, the performer moved to America - the artist show constantly went out on one of the channels.
Personal life
Sasha Baron Cohen is married to actress from Canada Isle Fisher. They officially legalized the relationship in 2010, although before that they met 8 years. For three years, Koen's beloved woman studied Judaism, then accepted this faith so that her husband's parents were blessed with marriage.In the fall of 2007, the artist gave birth to the daughter of Olive. In the summer of 2010, the spouses appeared the second daughter, which Elul called. In March 2015, another important event was happening in the private life of Sasha - the wife gave the heir's wife, who was given the name of Montgomery Moses Brian Baron Cohen. The artist leads an officially verified instagram account under the connected name of four of its characters. He is divided with subscribers funny photos and videos.
Films
World recognition came to the actor in 2002, when the film "Ali Ji in Parliament" came out. The comedian himself called this work with a light warm-up, because he played the hero, who came up with himself and with the way he had already managed to affect. In 2006, the audience saw the Comedy "Brata", where Sasha appeared in a familiar fans of the actor's creativity of Brata Sagdiyev, a journalist from Kazakhstan. The provocation film outraged residents of the Central Asian country and was banned for display. But the scandals around the project played only on the hand of the actor.
However, in 2012, Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister thanked Sasha Baron Cohen for help in the development of tourism in the country. In 2006, the picture "Borat" became the leader in cash collecting, and Sasha Association of American film critics called the best actor of the year. At the beginning of next year, he received the Golden Globe for the best male role and the MTV premium for the best comedy role.
In an interview in 2019, the Contractor said that Kinokartina was the cause of the divorce between Pamela Anderson, who spoke in comedies in the role of Kameo, and her husband, an actress, Rock musician Kidd Rock. According to the scenario, the hero of Koen on the autograph-session of the star kidnates the beauty right in front of the fans to take the blonde to her homeland.
The artist wanted to achieve the effect of surprises - so the shooting was carried out in the shopping center with real pamela fans who did not know about the harvested "theft". The scene was able to take off only from the second double - when Sasha pounced on Anderson "the traditional wedding bag," he threw her over his shoulder and ran away, no one responded.
In 2007, Sasha appeared in the musical picture of Tim Berton "Susny Todd, a demon-hairdresser with fleet-street." The famous Johnny Depp and Helen Bonham Carter became colleagues in the artist on the site. The next television project involving Sasha was a comedy "Ricky Bobby: Road King". And after three years, in 2009, the audience saw the film "Bruno", in which modern society rigidly ridicled. The picture became the registraly in America, Canada, England, Australia. Interestingly, during filming, calls to the police came 91 times.
In the same 2009, the actor arrived at the MTV Video Music Awards MTV Ceremony in Bruno. According to the scenario, the Baron Cohen event was to descend on the scene on the cable in the angel's clothes. However, he landed with a fifth point practically on the face of the famous Raper Eminem, and he was very angry with the comedy trick.
In 2010, Sasha had to play Freddie Mercury in a biographical film, but because of disagreements with the musicians, the plan was not realized. The actor wished to portray the leader of the British group Queen without hiding the characteristics of the personal life of the musician and his addiction. Such an approach did not apply to Briana Mei and Roger Taylor, who wanted to demonstrate to the audience the history of the team without intimate details - for example, without mentioning parties with dwarfs and drugs.
Then for the Bayopic, which as a result, the name "Bohemian Rhapsodia", held a new casting, rewritten the script. On the main role instead of Sasha invited the young artist Rami Malek. The musicians of the band were satisfied with the result, considering that the actor perfectly reincarnated into the image of Freddie. However, among Queen fans were also those who criticized the project for "cropping", stressing that Cohen would manage to better pass on the screen Harizm Mercury.
In the film "Dictator", the shooting of which began in 2011, Sasha Baron Cohen moved away from previous standards. He played two main roles - the ruler of Haffase Aladin and his twin, but did it so that the motives and actions of the heroes were clear to the audience. In 2012, the film project was published on international rental and received wrestling reviews of critics. In the first week of the show, the film gathered more than $ 60 million.
To draw the attention of the public to his new creation, the actor appeared on the 84th Oscar award ceremony in a suit reminiscent of the one who wore the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Also, the artist kept the urn in his hands, convincing the gathered that there was a dust of the former rulers of the DPRK Kim Jong Ira.
In the midst of the event, the comedian overturned the contents of the urn on the leading Ryan Seakrest, after which he was removed from the hall of the police. In addition, in the image of the Kohen dictator appeared in the "Evening Urgant" transmission. True, the interview was not conducted in the studio itself, but through teleexer.
Among other projects of the actor - films "Molded", "Guardian of Time", "Brothers from Grimsby", Alice in the Watercalcale. Sasha voiced the leader of Lemurov Julian in three parts of the popular cartoon "Madagascar".
In addition, he worked on a project called "Kerlya Oxide and Vic Trill". In 2013, Sasha Baron Cohen was invited to present Britannia Awards award. When the comedians called on the stage for the arrival of Charlie Chaplin's prize, which is awarded for outstanding comedic achievements, then announced that the award will give a woman - the actress, who played the film with Chaplin and lived to our time.
When the artist handed over the cherished cane Charlie Chaplin, Sasha thanked the actress and leaned over to the support. And here the cane was broken. Baron Cohen clumsy fell on a woman and threw off the wheelchair from the scene. The audience were horrified, thinking that the actor killed the old woman. Someone even gathered to call a doctor. But when Sasha Baron Cohen did not happen anything, then the gathered realized that they were victims of the prepared draw.
In April 2018, the elected filmography of the artist was replenished with a six-party mini-series "Spy". Baron Cohen reincarnated in an Israeli intelligence officer Eli Cohen, known in the years that in the 60s of the 20th century managed to penetrate the circles to the Government of Syria. Reveal the scout in 1965 and sentenced to death.
Also, in 2018, the political and satirical series "Who is America?" Was released on the screens, in which Sasha performed all the roles, depicted typical residents of the states.
Sasha Baron Cohen now
In 2020, the artist continued to shock the public and film. In January, together with his wife, the artist appeared on the Red Walkway "Golden Globe". Cohen nominated for a prize in the category "Best actor in a mini-series or television film" for the role in the "Spy" project.In June, the comedian decided to play supporters of the President of Donald Trump. To this end, the artist performed at the rally, surrounding the farmer from the depths. The performer went on stage and sang a song containing non-procurement statements. He offered to introduce into the blood of the liberals of the "flu from the uhang", as well as deal with the representatives of WHO.
In the fall, the comedy "Borat-2" came out. In "Instagram" Sasha laid out the original poster announcement of this picture. In the photo, the artist appeared in front of the audience in the new "bathing suit." This time the famous neon-green accessory has changed a medical mask, covering his male nature. The snapshot escorted the slogan "won't be mask. Save life, "becoming a reference to the problem of propagation of coronavirus infection.
Filmography
- 2000-2004 - "Show Ali Ji"
- 2002 - "Ali Ji in Parliament"
- 2006 - "Ricky Bobby: Road King"
- 2006 - "Brath: cultural studies of America in favor of the glorious state of Kazakhstan"
- 2007 - "Susini Todd, a demon-hairdresser with fleet-street"
- 2009 - "Bruno"
- 2011 - "Guardian of Time"
- 2012 - "Dictator"
- 2012 - "Rejected"
- 2013 - "TV presenter 2: and hello again"
- 2016 - "Brothers from Grimsby"
- 2016 - "Alice in the Looking Gallery"
- 2018 - "Who is America?"
- 2019 - "Spy"
- 2020 - "Court of Chicago Seven"
- 2020 - "Borat-2"