And judging by the footage now circulating globally, so too was the gleeful pandemonium that Sacha Baron Cohen has spent nearly three decades perfecting. Reports had already surfaced that Baron Cohen had secretly wrapped production on a new Ali G film, the first since 2002's Ali G Indahouse. Sacha Baron Cohen was born in Hammersmith to a Jewish family whose roots span London, Wales, Belarus, and Mandatory Palestine. But here is what most people do not know, and what makes the Baron Cohen story genuinely extraordinary. He too was born into the same Jewish family in London.