Editing Sacha Baron Cohen (section)

==Early life and education ==
Sacha Noam Baron [[Cohen]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Baron Cohen, Sacha |website=[[BFI Film & TV Database]] |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/837355 |access-date=2006-11-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070212031312/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/837355 |archive-date=2007-02-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was born into a British family of [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi Jewish]] descent<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/sacha-baron-cohen-the-men-in-his-life-1675107.html |title=Sacha Baron Cohen: The men in his life |date=2009-04-27 |work=[[The Independent]] |access-date=2018-05-25 |quote=He was born in 1971, the youngest of three boys in a middle-class family from west London. |archive-date=2018-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702131623/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/sacha-baron-cohen-the-men-in-his-life-1675107.html |url-status=live}}</ref> in the [[Hammersmith]] area of [[London]] on 13 October 1971.<ref name="upi">{{cite news |url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/10/13/UPI-Almanac-for-Tuesday-Oct-13-2020/8431602465730|title= UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020 |work= [[United Press International]] |date= 13 October 2020 |access-date= 24 May 2021 |quote= ...Sacha Baron Cohen in 1971 (age 49)... |archive-date= 13 October 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201013125524/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/10/13/UPI-Almanac-for-Tuesday-Oct-13-2020/8431602465730 |url-status= live }}</ref> His mother, photographer Daniella (née Weiser), was born in [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandatory Palestine]] in 1939.<ref name=bookref1>{{cite book|title=Sacha Baron Cohen: The Unauthorized Biography: From Cambridge to Kazakhstan|author=Tracy, K.|date=2007|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=9781429993937|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lqMEpeNCwL0C|page=10|access-date=22 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/15104|title=The musical Baron Cohen brother comes into his own|last=Pfefferman|first=Naomi|date=13 July 2007|work=Jewish Journal|access-date=25 May 2018|archive-date=25 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525205042/http://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/15104|url-status=live}}</ref> His father, editor-turned-clothing store owner Gerald "Jerry" Baron Cohen (1932–2016), was born into a Belarusian [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi Jewish]] family in London and grew up in the Welsh town of [[Pontypridd]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=106695556|title=An Interview With The Real Sacha Baron Cohen|date=16 July 2009|work=[[NPR]]|access-date=25 May 2018|quote=Sacha Baron Cohen: "I'd say that I'm very, very proud of my Jewish identity. I'm proud to be a Jew"|archive-date=26 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180526040951/https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=106695556|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nation.cymru/culture/borat-da-sacha-baron-cohens-welsh-roots-revealed|title='Borat da!' Sacha Baron Cohen's Welsh roots revealed|date=22 October 2020|website=Nation.Cymru|access-date=22 April 2021|archive-date=22 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422071104/https://nation.cymru/culture/borat-da-sacha-baron-cohens-welsh-roots-revealed|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=moment>{{cite journal|url=http://www.momentmag.com/moment/issues/2010/08/Baron-Cohen.html|title=The Provocative Baron Cohen Clan|journal=[[Moment (magazine)|Moment]]|date=July–August 2010|access-date=31 July 2010|first=Sarah|last=Glazer|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726213426/http://www.momentmag.com/moment/issues/2010/08/Baron-Cohen.html|archive-date=26 July 2010}}</ref><ref name=bwhsosg>{{Cite book|title=Who's who in Finance and Industry| volume =32|publisher=Marquis Who's Who|year=2001|page=38}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Dowd|first=Maureen|date=2020-10-26|title=Sacha Baron Cohen: This Time He's Serious|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/style/sacha-baron-cohen-maureen-dowd-interview.html|access-date=2020-10-30|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=17 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017091411/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/style/sacha-baron-cohen-maureen-dowd-interview.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Baron Cohen's paternal grandfather, Morris Moses Cohen, added "Baron" to his surname.<ref name=bwhsosg/><ref name=wales1>{{cite news| title =Valley G's wicked Welsh rootz| work =BBC News| date =28 March 2002| url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1898402.stm| access-date =22 November 2006| archive-date =25 November 2002| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20021125023155/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1898402.stm| url-status =live}}</ref> His maternal grandmother, Liesel (née Levi), lived in [[Haifa]] and trained as a ballet dancer in Germany before fleeing the [[Nazi Germany|Nazis]] in 1936.<ref name=moment/><ref name=borateasy>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article1294842.ece |title=Borat's easy ... being me is odd |work=[[The Times]] |last=White |first=Roland |date=21 January 2007 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070619135236/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article1294842.ece |archive-date=19 June 2007 |url-status=dead |access-date=12 July 2018 }}</ref><ref name=rollingstone>{{cite magazine|last=Strauss|first=Neil|title=Sacha Baron Cohen: The Man Behind the Mustache|magazine=Rolling Stone|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/the-man-behind-the-mustache-20061130|date=30 November 2006|access-date=25 May 2018|archive-date=25 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525204457/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/the-man-behind-the-mustache-20061130|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=guardian1>{{cite news|last = Rayner|first = Jay|title = Mutha of invention|work = The Guardian|location = London|date = 24 February 2002|url = http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,656096,00.html|access-date = 6 November 2006|archive-date = 9 January 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080109191159/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,656096,00.html|url-status = live}}</ref> He has two older brothers: [[Erran Baron Cohen|Erran]], a composer with whom he often collaborates, and Amnon.<ref name="guardian2002">{{cite news |author=Jay Rayner |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2002/feb/24/foodanddrink.comedy |title=Mutha of invention |work=The Observer |location=London |date=4 November 2005 |access-date=7 August 2010 |archive-date=21 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421150932/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2002/feb/24/foodanddrink.comedy |url-status=live }}</ref> His cousins include autism researcher [[Simon Baron-Cohen|Sir Simon Baron-Cohen]], playwright [[Dan Baron Cohen]], and filmmaker [[Ash Baron-Cohen]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2007/02/baron-cohen-autism-children|title=Nick Cohen meets Simon Baron-Cohen, Cambridge professor of developmental psychopathology|work=[[New Statesman]]|date=26 February 2007|access-date=1 November 2010|archive-date=18 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618102502/https://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2007/02/baron-cohen-autism-children|url-status=live}}</ref>

Baron Cohen was first educated at the independent Catholic [[St Columba's College, St Albans|St Columba's College]] in [[St Albans]], before moving on to attend the independent [[Haberdashers' Boys' School|Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School]] in [[Elstree]].<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jun/07/sacha-baron-cohen-bruno-profile | title = Sacha Baron Cohen: The comic who is always in your face | author = [[Andrew Anthony]] | newspaper = [[The Observer]] | archive-date = 11 November 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111111170925/http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jun/07/sacha-baron-cohen-bruno-profile | date = 7 June 2009 | url-status=dead | df = dmy-all }}</ref> He then studied history with a focus on [[antisemitism]] at [[Christ's College, Cambridge]], graduating in 1993 with [[British undergraduate degree classification#Upper Second Class Honours|upper-second-class honours]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/alumni/distinguished-alumni/baron_cohen|publisher=[[Christ's College, Cambridge]] |title=Alumni: Distinguished Members: Sacha Baron Cohen |archive-date=13 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013202413/http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/alumni/distinguished-alumni/baron_cohen|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/alumni/distinguished-alumni/baron_cohen/ Christ's College – Alumni – Sacha Baron Cohen] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013202413/http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/alumni/distinguished-alumni/baron_cohen|date=13 October 2011}} 2008 Christ's College</ref><ref name=":0" /> As an undergraduate, he wrote his thesis on the role of Jewish activists in the [[Civil rights movement|American civil rights movement]].<ref>{{Citation|title=ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen at Never Is Now 2019| date=21 November 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM|language=en|access-date=24 November 2019|archive-date=13 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113210507/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM|url-status=live}}</ref> He was a member of the [[Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club]], where he performed in shows such as ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]'' and ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (play)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]'', as well as acted in shows with the [[Labor Zionism|Labour]] youth movement [[Habonim Dror]].<ref name="guardian.co.uk">[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/sep/10/comedy Sacha Baron Cohen: Our man from Kazakhstan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507041304/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/sep/10/comedy |date=7 May 2021 }}. ''The Observer''. 1 September 2006.</ref> He played the cello while growing up, and made his television debut as a cellist on ''Fanfare for Young Musicians''.<ref name=":0" />