Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Noam Baron Cohen(born October 13, 1971) is a British comedian and actor notable for his successful and controversial comic characters, including Ali G (a junglist from West Staines, England), Borat (a Kazakhstani reporter), and Brüno (a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter). All three characters are featured in Da Ali G Show, an often unscripted program in which Sacha Baron Cohen conducts interviews as one of his three characters with people who ostensibly believe that the interviews are sincere and legitimate. His work has been recognized with a BAFTA award, and earned an Emmy nomination.
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Dan Futterman (born June 8, 1967 in Silver Spring, Maryland, and grew up in Larchmont, New York) is an American actor and an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter.
Born Ken Watanabe on October 21, 1959, in Koide (now Uonuma), Niigata prefecture, Japan. His mother taught general education and his father taught calligraphy. After graduating from high school in 1978 Watanabe moved to Tokyo to begin his acting career, getting his big break with the Tokyo-based theater troupe Madoka. While with the troupe, he was cast as the hero in the play Shimodani Mannencho Monogatari, under Yukio Ninagawa’s direction. The role attracted critical and popular notice.
Daniel Baldwin was born on October 5, 1960 in Massapequa, the third of six children of a Long Island New York Catholic family. His father, Alexander Baldwin, was a hard charging high school history and football coach who died of lung cancer at 55 in 1983. His mother, Carol (Martineau) Baldwin, is a breast cancer survivor and the founder of the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Care Center of the University Hospital and Medical Center at Stony Brook.
