---
name: "Lee Kern"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lee-kern"
fi1m_id: "lee-kern"
imdb_id: "nm1745272"
tmdb_id: 1739435
wikidata_id: "Q60041869"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T01:01:57.569851+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."
---

# Lee Kern

## Identity

Lee Kern

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lee-kern
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lee-kern
- **IMDb ID:** nm1745272
- **TMDB ID:** 1739435
- **Wikidata ID:** Q60041869
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60041869, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1745272/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1739435

Writer. Born 1 January 2000 in London.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 2000, London
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Anthony Hines](https://film.one/person/anthony-hines.md), [Dan Mazer](https://film.one/person/dan-mazer.md), [Dan Swimer](https://film.one/person/dan-swimer.md), [Sacha Baron Cohen](https://film.one/person/sacha-baron-cohen.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60041869, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1745272/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1739435

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Who Is America?*](https://film.one/tv/who-is-america.md) (58)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Lee Kern is a British writer, comedian and producer. He wrote episodes of the Sacha Baron Cohen series *Who Is America?* (2018), on which he also served as co-producer, and received a screenplay credit on the film *Borat Subsequent Moviefilm* (2020), for which he was also an associate producer.

Kern created and wrote the prank series *Celebrity Bedlam* (2012) and wrote for *Bad Robots* (2014–2015). His work on *Borat Subsequent Moviefilm* earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and a Writers Guild of America Award in the same category.

He studied at the University of Cambridge and began his career working in documentary production in Oxford before moving into television comedy and prank formats.

*Sources: leekern.org, imdb.com, it.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Who Is America?* (2018), Fi1m 58, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/who-is-america.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan* (2020), Screenplay, Associate Producer
- *Who Is America?* (2018), series, Writer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/tv/who-is-america.md)
- *The Day They Came to Suck Out Our Brains!* (2013), series, as Mr. Smith
- *Hallo Panda* (2006), as Lee
- *The Edgware Walker* (2004), Director

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2021: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Borat Subsequent Moviefilm*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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