Carlo Rota

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Carlo Rota

Carlo Rota (born April 17, 1961 in London , England ) is a British - Canadian actor of Italian descent.

Life and accomplishments

Carlo Rota was born in Soho , London . He has a brother named Marco and two sisters. The father, Dante Rota, comes from Piedmont and the mother, Rina, from Sardinia . The now retired father was a well-known chef and the mother worked as a seamstress and cook. Carlo Rota learned the English and Italian languages ​​and grew up in Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. Carlo Rota worked in Joe Allen's Orso Restaurant in New York and was voted Best Maître d'hôtel of 1987. He also moved to Canada to work in his parents' restaurant business.

In the early 1990s, at the age of 29, Rota turned to another profession and took acting classes. In Toronto he played theater. Rota's first and at the same time larger film role was in the award-winning drama Der Holzschuhbaum (1978) directed by Ermanno Olmi . Rota embodied minor supporting roles in the films Maximum Risk (1996), The Last Witness - Nur tote Zeugen Schweigen (1999) with Natasha Henstridge , The Bloody Path of God (1999), the space adventure Mission to Mars (2000) directed by Brian De Palma and in When Mother's Love Turns to Hell (2000). In a larger appearance, he portrayed an annoying passenger in Flight 534 - Death Above the Clouds (2001) with Eric Roberts .

Rota hosted The Great Canadian Food Show on CBC Television , owned by the state broadcaster CBC / Radio-Canada . Rota traveled through Canada in the 65 episodes of the five seasons to show the diverse culinary delights of the country. His culinary journalism was recognized by a 2001 James Beard Award nomination . He was also nominated for Best Host for The Great Canadian Food Show at the Gemini Awards in 2001.

As a multi-layered Mick Schtoppel , Rota was often a guest star in the dramatic agent series Nikita (1997-2001) with Peta Wilson and Roy Dupuis . He has appeared in various television series, including several episodes of Traders (1998) where he made regular appearances, Relic Hunter (2001) and Queer as Folk (2003, 2004). He moved to Los Angeles and plays CTU agent Morris O'Brian in the action series 24 , who appears in the fifth, sixth and seventh seasons (2006 and 2008) of this real- time series. In 2009 Rota finally played the role of terrorist Kalil Abramson in the American television series Navy CIS: LA .

In 2013 he played the antagonist Majid Sadiq in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist , a video game from publisher Ubisoft Montreal .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1993: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (32 Variations on Glenn Gould )
  • 1994: TekWar: Excalibur - Sword of Power ( TekWar: TekLab )
  • 1995: Love to the Dead ( Friends at Last )
  • 1995: Death Behind the Mask ( Down Came a Blackbird )
  • 1996: Kiss of Death ( First Degree )
  • 1996: Maximum Risk
  • 1997: Joe's Wedding
  • 1997: A Killer Seldom Comes Alone ( The Wrong Guy )
  • 1998: Traders (TV series)
  • 1999: The Last Witness - Only dead witnesses are silent ( Caracara )
  • 1999: The Bloody Path of God ( The Boondock Saints )
  • 2000: Swap Hollywood for Love ( Catch a Falling Star )
  • 2000: Mission to Mars
  • 2000: When Mother's Love Turns to Hell ( Trapped in a Purple Haze )
  • 2000: The Megaplex-Phantom ( Phantom of the Megaplex )
  • 2001: A Colder Kind of Death
  • 1997–2001: Nikita ( La Femme Nikita , TV series, 15 episodes)
  • 2000-2001: Relic Hunter - The Treasure Hunter ( Relic Hunter , television series, three episodes, various roles)
  • 2001: Flight 534 - Death above the Clouds ( Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534 )
  • 2002: Help, all hell has broken loose in the castle! ( Global Heresy )
  • 2002–2004: Queer as Folk (TV series, nine episodes)
  • 2003: The Gospel of John (The Gospel of John)
  • 2005: Wedding Bells - If you don't want, you have to want! ( Cake )
  • 2006–2009: 24 (TV series, 29 episodes)
  • 2007–2011: Our Little Mosque ( Little Mosque on the Prairie , TV series, 69 episodes)
  • 2008: Saw V
  • 2009: Stargate Universe (TV series, two episodes)
  • 2010: Castle (TV series, episode 2x11)
  • 2010: Navy CIS: LA ( NCIS: Los Angeles , TV series, episode 1x21)
  • 2011: Human Target (TV series, episode 2x09)
  • 2011: Breaking Bad (TV series, episode 4x10)
  • 2011: Bones (TV series, episode 6x19)
  • 2011: Sanctuary - Guardian of Creatures ( Sanctuary , TV series, three episodes)
  • 2012: The Gates of the World ( World Without End , television multipart)
  • 2014: Grimm (TV series, episode 3x16)
  • 2014: Brick Mansions

literature

  • Christopher Heyn : Inside Section One: Creating and Producing TV's La Femme Nikita , Los Angeles: Persistence of Vision Press, September 2006, English, ISBN 0-9787625-0-9 . Pages 111-115 are about his role on the series and Carlo Rota, who was interviewed.

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personal data
SURNAME Rota, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Canadian actor and chef
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England, UK