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Discussing his Jewish identity, Baron Cohen has stated, "I wouldn't say I am a religious Jew. I am proud of my Jewish identity and there are certain things I do and customs I keep." He tries to keep kosher, attends synagogue about twice a year, and is fluent in Hebrew.
Sacha Baron Cohen was born October 13, 1971, in England to Daniella (née Weiser), born in Israel, and Gerald Baron Cohen, originally from Whales. He was the youngest of three sons in an Orthodox Jewish family. Before university, he spent a year at Kibbutz Rosh HaNikra and Kibbutz Beit HaEmek with Habonim Dror.
- He was born in 1971 to Jewish parents. His mother, Daniella Naomi, a fitness instructor and photographer, was born in Israel to a German Jewish mother, Liesel Weiser, a ballet dancer turned fitness instructor who escaped Nazi Germany before the Holocaust.
- He grew up in London and went to Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, where he met frequent collaborator Dan Mazer. When he was 12, he got into breakdancing, and his mother would drive him and his friends to Covent Garden to break some moves: “Essentially we were middle-class Jewish boys who were adopting this culture, which we thought was very cool.
- One of his first comedy bits was about a Hasidic Jew. For family Shabbats, Baron Cohen and his brother Erran sometimes developed musical skits. One, Erran told Moment Magazine in 2010, was “about a Hasidic guy wearing all these clothes making him schvitz [sweat].
- He volunteered in kibbutz Rosh HaNikra as part of a Habonim Dror gap year. Baron Cohen has definitely shown that he is passionate and connected to Israeli history
He is the son of Daniella (Weiser), a movement instructor, and Gerald Baron Cohen, a clothing store owner. His father, born in England and raised in Wales, was of Eastern European Jewish descent, while his mother was born in Israel, to German Jewish parents.
- October 13, 1971
Apr 30, 2024 · Sacha Baron Cohen (born October 13, 1971, London, England) is a British actor and comedian best known for his politically incorrect social satire. Baron Cohen was born into a devout Jewish family, and he studied history at the University of Cambridge .
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Mar 1, 2021 · Cohen was nominated as well for best actor in the drama category for his performance as Abbie Hoffman, a very Jewish icon of the anti-war movement of the 1960s and ’70s.
Mar 1, 2021 · Cohen was nominated as well for best actor in the drama category for his performance as Abbie Hoffman, a very Jewish icon of the anti-war movement of the 1960s and ’70s. (He was beaten out by...
