Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Margaret Sagdiyev, a Kazakh information reporter who has attained intercontinental fame and notoriety just after the launch of his "documentary", and who has been imprisoned in Kazakhstan for the past fourteen many years for remaining perceived to have brought disgrace to the region. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. Marketing Science. 41 (2): 230-242. doi:10.