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Everything we know about Maria Bakalova, the 'Borat 2' star who duped Rudy Giuliani

  • Maria Bakalova is a 24-year-old Bulgarian actress who is the talk of Hollywood thanks to her performance in "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm."
  • In the "Borat" sequel she plays Tutar, the daughter of Borat (played by Sacha Baron Cohen).
  • She was chosen for the role after Cohen and his team auditioned 600 actresses.
  • Most notably, Bakalova duped former New York City mayor turned Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani in the movie, leading to a controversial moment when Giuliani put his hands inside his pants while in a hotel room with Bakalova.

14 years after the first "Borat" movie hit screens and became a cultural phenomenon, Sacha Baron Cohen has delivered a sequel, "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" (available now on Amazon Prime).

Cohen stars alongside unknown 24-year-old actress Maria Bakalova.

Playing the role of Tutar, Borat's 15-year-old daughter, Bakalova rides shotgun as Cohen once more travels the US as his Borat character and interacts with real people, oftentimes showing our nation's dark racial divide. But in a surprising twist, Tutar becomes the lifeblood of the movie as gradually the focus becomes less about Borat's antics and more about Tutar's evolution as an independent woman that, in typical Cohen comedy fashion, includes hilarious scenarios.

By the end of the movie we see that Bakalova has a talent for deception that can rival even Cohen as she comes face-to-face with Rudy Giuliani, which escalates into an inappropriate encounter that has since gone viral.

Here we introduce you to Bakalova, a Bulgarian actress who has been given the career break of a lifetime.

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