---
name: "Carlo Rota"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/carlo-rota"
fi1m_id: "carlo-rota"
imdb_id: "nm0744690"
tmdb_id: 54793
wikidata_id: "Q608695"
roles: []
born: "17 April 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-26T02:22:15.361100+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."
---

# Carlo Rota

## Identity

Carlo Rota

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/carlo-rota
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** carlo-rota
- **IMDb ID:** nm0744690
- **TMDB ID:** 54793
- **Wikidata ID:** Q608695
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Rota, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q608695, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0744690/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54793

Actor. Born 17 April 1961 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Born:** 17 April 1961, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 1993–2001
- **Also known as:** Carlo D. Rota, Carlos Rota, Carlo Dante Rota
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 85 (1), 2000s 64 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 69 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Action & Adventure 1, Adventure 1, Crime 1, Music 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $111m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Rota, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q608695, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0744690/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54793

## Biography

Carlo Rota is a British-Canadian actor. Born on 17 April 1961 in London, he worked in the restaurant industry before beginning his acting career around the age of 30.

His early screen credit was as the C.B.S. Producer in the 1993 film *Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould*. He has appeared in films including *The Boondock Saints* (1999) and *Saw V* (2008). On television he is known for recurring roles as Yasir Hamoudi in *Little Mosque on the Prairie* (2007–2012), Morris O'Brian in *24* (2006–2009) and Emilio Solano in *Jane the Virgin* (2014–2015). He also hosted the CBC series *Great Canadian Food Show*.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *24* (2001), Fi1m 78, as Morris O'Brian — [page](https://film.one/tv/24.md)
- *Mission to Mars* (2000), Fi1m 50, as Ambassador — [page](https://film.one/film/mission-to-mars.md)
- *Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould* (1993), Fi1m 85, as C.B.S. Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/thirty-two-short-films-about-glenn-gould.md)

## Complete filmography (103)

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

- *Busboys* (2026), as Boyd
- *Pick One* (2025), Actor
- *Secret Level* (2024), series, as Sorcerer (voice)
- *The Edge of Sleep* (2024), series, as Dr. Luis Castaneda
- *Tracker* (2024), series, as Bennett Cranston
- *Six Guns for Hire* (2024), as The Bandit
- *High Desert* (2023), series, as Arman
- *True Lies* (2023), series, as Francois
- *Red Iron Road* (2023), series, as Popov
- *The Forest King* (2023), as Popov (voice)
- *Red Iron Road* (2022), as Popov (voice)
- *Me Time* (2022), as Alberto
- *Trigger Point* (2021), as Dwight Logan
- *A Perfect Plan* (2020), as Theo
- *FBI: Most Wanted* (2020), series, as Anatoly Sabzi
- *Salma's Big Wish* (2019), as Morlett
- *Trespassers* (2019), as Sergeant Daniels
- *The Diggers* (2019), as Mister Meister
- *Cliffs of Freedom* (2019), as Mustapha Bey
- *Hudson & Rex* (2019), series, as Archibald Parsons
- *State Like Sleep* (2019), Actor
- *The Rookie* (2018), series, as Anton Petrovich
- *Titans* (2018), series, as Oracle (voice)
- *Welcome to Nowhere* (2018), as The General
- *Spinning Man* (2018), as Santos
- *People You May Know* (2017), as Bill
- *Ransom* (2017), series, as Damian Delaine
- *Conviction* (2016), series, as Vince Scarlata
- *Lethal Weapon* (2016), series, as Guillermo Azoulay
- *The Player* (2015), series, as Daoud Raqiv
- *After the Ball* (2015), as Richard
- *Jane the Virgin* (2014), series, as Emilio Solano
- *The Flash* (2014), series, as Remington Meister
- *Scorpion* (2014), series, as General Savic
- *Brick Mansions* (2014), as George the Greek
- *Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.* (2013), series, as Luca Russo
- *Pegasus vs. Chimera* (2012), as King Orthos
- *World Without End* (2012), series, as Edmund
- *Scandal* (2012), series, as Ivan
- *Grimm* (2011), series, as Hedig
- *American Horror Story* (2011), series, as Anton LaVey
- *Ecstasy* (2011), as Solo
- *ThunderCats* (2011), series, as Ratar-O (voice)
- *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), series, as Sean Winston — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md)
- *Nikita* (2010), series, as Ian Damascus
- *The Good Guys* (2010), series, as Asher
- *Human Target* (2010), series, as Eli Rosko
- *Shark City* (2009), as Ventura Ritt
- *White Collar* (2009), series, as Ghovat
- *Stargate Universe* (2009), series, as Carl Strom
- *NCIS: Los Angeles* (2009), series, as Kalil Abramson
- *Castle* (2009), series, as Bahir Harun — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/castle.md)
- *Saw V* (2008), as Charles
- *Sanctuary* (2008), series, as Feodor 'Frank' Glazov, Richard Feliz
- *The Mentalist* (2008), series, as Dimitri Zubov — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mentalist.md)
- *Breaking Bad* (2008), series, as Benicio Fuentes — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/breaking-bad.md)
- *Cold Play* (2008), as Nigel
- *Little Mosque on the Prairie* (2007), series, as Yasir Hamoudi
- *Shark* (2006), series, as Anton Robitaille — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/tv/shark.md)
- *Time Bomb* (2006), as Musab Hyatti
- *At the Hotel* (2006), series, as Albert
- *Bones* (2005), series, as Lambert Chaisson — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/bones.md)
- *Cake* (2005), as Bob Jackman
- *Horsie's Retreat* (2005), as Spiro
- *This Is Wonderland* (2004), series, as Giuseppe Burelli
- *Il Duce Canadese* (2004), series, as Avvocato
- *The Gospel of John* (2003), as Chief of the Temple Guards
- *Veritas: The Quest* (2003), series, as Ali Hassan Rif
- *Adventure Inc.* (2002), series, as Sergi Borodin
- *Global Heresy* (2002), as Tony Manson
- *Street Time* (2002), series, as Arthur Marx
- *Recipe for Murder* (2002), Actor
- *24* (2001), series, as Morris O'Brian — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/24.md)
- *On Their Knees* (2001), as Walter
- *A Nero Wolfe Mystery* (2001), series, as Barry Fleming, Felix Courret, Spiros Papps
- *Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534* (2001), as Cal Matthews
- *Queer as Folk* (2000), series, as Gardner Vance
- *Phantom of the Megaplex* (2000), as Tyler Jesseman
- *CSI: Crime Scene Investigation* (2000), series, as Karl Schrute
- *Trapped in a Purple Haze* (2000), as David Lebeff
- *Mission to Mars* (2000), as Ambassador — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/mission-to-mars.md)
- *Catch a Falling Star* (2000), as Harry Goldberg
- *Relic Hunter* (1999), series, as Sultan, Lagenfeld
- *The Boondock Saints* (1999), as Yakavetta
- *Murder in a Small Town* (1999), as Charles
- *Total Recall 2070* (1999), series, Actor
- *Naked City: Justice with a Bullet* (1998), as Findlay Clerk
- *Highlander: The Raven* (1998), series, as Mario Cardoza
- *Earth: Final Conflict* (1997), series, as Margolis
- *City of Dark* (1997), as Plato
- *The Wrong Guy* (1997), as French Restaurant Waiter
- *La Femme Nikita* (1997), series, as Mick Stoppel, Mr. Jones, Mick Schtoppel
- *Maximum Risk* (1996), as Bohemia Bartender
- *The Sentinel* (1996), series, as Jack Buchanan
- *First Degree* (1995), as Joe Galeno
- *Friends at Last* (1995), as Neil
- *Young at Heart* (1995), as Bartender
- *Viper* (1994), series, as Harry Ibarra
- *Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould* (1993), as C.B.S. Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/thirty-two-short-films-about-glenn-gould.md)
- *Kung Fu: The Legend Continues* (1993), series, as Torquemada, Dassas
- *Forever Knight* (1992), series, Actor
- *General Hospital* (1963), series, as Jenz Sidwell
- *Finding Famiglia*, as Carlo

## Gallery

- ![Carlo Rota](https://film.one/media/person/1023450/gallery-499431b78f04.jpg) Carlo Rota — Krotasiks, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Carlo_Rota%2C_2009_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Carlo Rota (2007)](https://film.one/media/person/1023450/gallery-a13f72faddb7.jpg) Carlo Rota (2007) — slidercleo, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Carlo_Rota.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Carlo Rota](https://film.one/media/person/1023450/gallery-339c81414de5.jpg) Carlo Rota — Image via TMDB
- ![Carlo Rota](https://film.one/media/person/1023450/gallery-b8914cd1b399.jpg) Carlo Rota — Image via TMDB
- ![Carlo Rota](https://film.one/media/person/1023450/gallery-710f0d0bdf2c.jpg) Carlo Rota — Image via TMDB

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