--- description: Sacha Baron Cohen is a three-time Academy Award nominee, the recipient of the Anti-Defamation League’s International Leadership Award, an actor, writer and anti-racist advocate. His undergraduate thesis, which was researched at the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta, focused on cooperation between Black and Jewish communities during the civil rights movement. He is a founding member of Stop Hate for Profit. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Sacha Baron Cohen ## Sacha Baron Cohen Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close _Sacha Baron Cohen is a three-time Academy Award nominee, the recipient of the Anti-Defamation League’s International Leadership Award, an actor, writer and anti-racist advocate. His undergraduate thesis, which was researched at the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta, focused on cooperation between Black and Jewish communities during the civil rights movement. He is a founding member of Stop Hate for Profit._ ## Sacha Baron Cohen Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Aug 26, 2023 ### [Read Sacha Baron Cohen's Speech on Standing Against Hate](https://time.com/6308730/sacha-baron-cohen-mlk-march-on-washington-speech-anniversary/) Cohen gave a speech at the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 8, 2020 ### [Sacha Baron Cohen: We Must Save Democracy From Conspiracies](https://time.com/5897501/conspiracy-theory-misinformation/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/sacha-baron-cohen/","name":"Sacha Baron Cohen"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/sacha-baron-cohen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/sacha-baron-cohen/"},"name":"Sacha Baron Cohen","jobTitle":null,"description":"Sacha Baron Cohen is a three-time Academy Award nominee, the recipient of the Anti-Defamation League’s International Leadership Award, an actor, writer and anti-racist advocate. His undergraduate thesis, which was researched at the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta, focused on cooperation between Black and Jewish communities during the civil rights movement. He is a founding member of Stop Hate for Profit.","url":"https://time.com/author/sacha-baron-cohen/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```