Carlo Rota
Acting
Biography
Carlo Dante Rota (born April 17, 1961) is a British-Canadian-American actor, best known for his roles as construction contractor Yasir Hamoudi on Little Mosque on the Prairie, systems analyst Morris O'Brian on the FOX series 24, Emilio Solano on Jane the Virgin, informant Mick Schtoppel on La Femme Nikita (1997-2001) He has guest starred on TV series including AMC's Breaking Bad, NCIS: LA, CSI: NY, Castle, The Mentalist, Bones, Grimm, 24, White Collar, Queer as Folk (US), Human Target, Relic Hunter, Adventure Inc, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, The Gospel of John, and Traders. Because of his experience prior to acting, he also hosted the Great Canadian Food Show for CBC television in Canada. In 2008, Rota portrayed Charles, who was a journalist for The Herald, in Saw V.
Born: April 17, 1961
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
Back in Time for Dinner
Follow an adventurous family on the time-travelling journey of a lifetime as they take on iconic trends in food, design and domestic gadgetry, beginning in the 1940s. Guided by host Carlo Rota, each week the Campus family from southern Ontario will live through a new decade of Canadian food and domestic trends.
This Is Wonderland
Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the backroom deals that make the system work accompanied by the usual eccentric characters.
Breaking Bad
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.
Adventure Inc.
From his base in the Florida Keys, Judson Cross has assembled a team of young renegades, each with their own extraordinary skills and willing to risk it all for the love of adventure.
The Rookie
Starting over isn't easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being an LAPD officer. As the force's oldest rookie, he’s met with skepticism from some higher-ups who see him as just a walking midlife crisis.
The Mentalist
Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.
Hudson & Rex
Detective Charlie Hudson teams up with what he calls his "highly trained law enforcement animal" German Shepherd dog named Rex who he prefers to team up with because he doesn't talk his ear off.
Grimm
After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.
Scorpion
Eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits comprise the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats of the modern age. As Homeland Security’s new think tank, O’Brien’s “Scorpion” team includes Toby Curtis, an expert behaviorist who can read anyone; Happy Quinn, a mechanical prodigy; and Sylvester Dodd, a statistics guru.
Bones
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
Filmography
as Sorcerer (voice)
as Dr. Luis Castaneda
as Arman
as Francois
as Popov
as Alberto
as Dwight Logan
as Theo
as Anatoly Sabzi
as Morlett
as Sergeant Daniels
as Mister Meister
as Mustapha Bey
as Archibald Parsons
as Anton Petrovich
as Oracle (voice)
as The General
as Santos
as Bill
as Damian Delaine
as Vince Scarlata
as Guillermo Azoulay
as Daoud Raqiv
as Richard
as Emilio Solano
as Remington Meister
as General Savic
as George the Greek
as Luca Russo
as King Orthos
as Edmund
as Ivan
as Hedig
as Anton LaVey
as Solo
as Ratar-O (voice)
as Sean Winston
as Ian Damascus
as Asher
as Eli Rosko
as Ventura Ritt
as Ghovat
as Carl Strom
as Kalil Abramson
as Bahir Harun
as Charles
as Richard Feliz
as Feodor 'Frank' Glazov
as Dimitri Zubov
as Benicio Fuentes
as Nigel
as Yasir Hamoudi
as Anton Robitaille
as Musab Hyatti
as Lambert Chaisson
as Bob Jackman
as Spiro
as Giuseppe Burelli
as Avvocato
as Chief of the Temple Guards
as Ali Hassan Rif
as Sergi Borodin
as Tony Manson
as Arthur Marx
as Morris O'Brian
as Cal Matthews
as Gardner Vance
as Tyler Jesseman
as Karl Schrute
as David Lebeff
as Ambassador
as Harry Goldberg
as Sultan
as Lagenfeld
as Yakavetta
as Charles
as Findlay Clerk
as Mario Cardoza
as Margolis
as Plato
as Mick Stoppel
as Mr. Jones
as Bohemia Bartender
as Jack Buchanan
as Joe Galeno
as Neil
as Bartender
as Harry Ibarra
as C.B.S. Producer
as Torquemada
as Dassas
as Jenz Sidwell