---
name: "Erran Baron Cohen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/erran-baron-cohen"
fi1m_id: "erran-baron-cohen"
imdb_id: "nm1908116"
tmdb_id: 6739
wikidata_id: "Q2357693"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "1 January 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-22T02:37:10.966058+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Erran Baron Cohen

## Identity

Erran Baron Cohen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/erran-baron-cohen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** erran-baron-cohen
- **IMDb ID:** nm1908116
- **TMDB ID:** 6739
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2357693
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erran_Baron_Cohen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2357693, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1908116/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6739

Composer. Born 1 January 1968 in Islington, London, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 1 January 1968, Islington, London, UK
- **Active:** 2006–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Anthony Hines](https://film.one/person/anthony-hines.md), [Sacha Baron Cohen](https://film.one/person/sacha-baron-cohen.md), [Dan Mazer](https://film.one/person/dan-mazer.md), [Peter Baynham](https://film.one/person/peter-baynham.md), [Dan Swimer](https://film.one/person/dan-swimer.md), [Jay Roach](https://film.one/person/jay-roach.md), [Larry Charles](https://film.one/person/larry-charles.md), [Monica Levinson](https://film.one/person/monica-levinson.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 70 (2), 2010s 82 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 74 to 73 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 3
- **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $401m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erran_Baron_Cohen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2357693, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1908116/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6739

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan*](https://film.one/film/borat-cultural-learnings-of-america-for-make-benefit-glorious-nation-of-kazakhstan.md) (81), [*Brüno*](https://film.one/film/bruno.md) (58)
- **Apple TV:** [*Stath Lets Flats*](https://film.one/tv/stath-lets-flats.md) (82)

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## Biography

Erran Baron Cohen is an English composer and trumpet player. He is a founding member of the world music group Zohar and has written scores for film, television and stage, including music for the Barcelona football club.

He trained in music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Goldsmiths, University of London. Baron Cohen is known for his long collaboration with his younger brother, the actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, for whom he has composed the scores to *Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan* (2006), *Brüno* (2009), *The Dictator* (2012), *Grimsby* (2016) and *Borat Subsequent Moviefilm* (2020), as well as the television series *Da Ali G Show* and *Who Is America?*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, forward.com, theguardian.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Stath Lets Flats* (2018), Fi1m 82, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/stath-lets-flats.md)
- *Brüno* (2009), Fi1m 58, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/bruno.md)
- *Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan* (2006), Fi1m 81, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/borat-cultural-learnings-of-america-for-make-benefit-glorious-nation-of-kazakhstan.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ali G: Who Iz I?* (2026), Original Music Composer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/ali-g-who-iz-i.md)
- *Hitler's DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator* (2025), series, Original Music Composer
- *David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count* (2022), Music
- *Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Stath Lets Flats* (2018), series, Music — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/stath-lets-flats.md)
- *Grimsby* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Just Before I Go* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret* (2013), Music
- *TalhotBlond* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *The Dictator* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Two-Legged Rat Bastards* (2011), Music
- *The Infidel* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Brüno* (2009), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/bruno.md)
- *Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan* (2006), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/borat-cultural-learnings-of-america-for-make-benefit-glorious-nation-of-kazakhstan.md)
- *Pups* (1999), Music

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