Sacha Baron Cohen's idol is Peter Sellers.
 Baron Cohen sent in a tape of himself in the character of Kristo, an Albanian fictional television reporter (who developed into the Kazakh Borat Sagdiyev), which caught the attention of a producer
 His father, editor-turned-clothing store owner Gerald Jerry Baron Cohen (19322016), was born in London to a family of Ashkenazi Belarusian Jews who had moved there and to Pontypridd in Wales, and was raised in Wales

