Born in England, Carlo Rota lived in Hong Kong and the Bahamas before his family settled in Toronto, Ontario. He worked in the culinary industry for many years but when he turned 30 he announced he was changing careers and set out to become an actor. Based on his impressive list of credits it’s safe to assume he made the right decision.
Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
L’âge des images III: Comment filmer Dieu (VR-1994)
TekWar: TekLab (TV-1994)
Friends at Last (TV-1995)
Down Came a Blackbird (TV-1995)
First Degree (VR-1996)
Maximum Risk (1996)
Joe’s Wedding (1996)
Small Potatoes: A Cautionary Comedy (1997)
The Wrong Guy (1997)
City of Dark (1997)
Clutch (1998)
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet (TV-1998)
Have Mercy (1999)
Jigsaw (VR-1999)
Murder in a Small Town (TV-1999)
Bonanno: A Godfather’s Story (TV-1999)
The Boondock Saints (1999)
Caracara (TV-1999)
Passengers (2000)
Catch a Falling Star (TV-2000)
Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (TV-2000)
Mission to Mars (2000)
Trapped in a Purple Haze (TV-2000)
Phantom of the Megaplex (TV-2000)
A Colder Kind of Death (TV-2001)
On Their Knees (2001)
Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534 (TV-2001)
Recipe for Murder (TV-2002)
Global Heresy (2002)
Countdown (2002)
The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John (2003)
Horsie’s Retreat (2005)
Cake (2005)
The Last Hit (2005)
I Am an Apartment Building (TV-2006)
Time Bomb (TV-2006)
Cold Play (2008)
Othello (TV-2008)
Saw V (2008)
Mortimer (2009)
Shark City (2009)
Love Letters (TV-2010)
The Conversation (2010)
The Day the Old Man Knocked (2010)
Man on the Train (2011)
The Blood of Pegasus (TV-2011)
Rehab (2011)
Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy (2011)
Man on the Train (2011)
Pegasus Vs. Chimera (TV-2012)
The Golden Ticket (2013, short)
Beverly Hills Cop (2013)
Small Time (2014)
Brick Mansions (2014)
After the Ball (2015)
People You May Know (2017)
Welcome to Nowhere (2017)
State Like Sleep (2018)
Hell Is Where the Home Is (2018)
Cliffs of Freedom (2019)
The Diggers (2019)
A Perfect Plan (2020)
Trigger Point (2021)
Six Guns For Hire (2022)
Me Time (2022)
TV Series – Cast:
Traders (1996-1998)
Nikita (1997-2001)
Il duce canadese (2004, mini-series)
Queer as Folk (2002-2004)
At the Hotel (2006)
24 (2006-2009)
Little Mosque on the Prairie (2007-2012)
World Without End (2012, mini-series)
Recipe to Riches (host, 2012)
Back in Time for Dinner (host, 2018)
TV Series – Guest appearances:
Street Legal (1992)
Counterstrike (1993)
Matrix (1993)
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1995)
Forever Knight (1996)
Viper (1996)
The Sentinel (1996)
Highlander: The Raven (1998)
Black Harbour (1998)
Total Recall 2070 (1999)
Earth: Final Conflict (1999)
PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1999)
Doc (2001)
Relic Hunter (2000, 2001)
A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2002)
Adventure Inc. (2002)
Street Time (2003)
Veritas: The Quest (2003)
Show Me Yours (2004)
Shark (2008)
White Collar (2009)
SGU Stargate Universe (2009)
Castle (2009)
CSI: NY (2010)
NCIS: Los Angeles (2010)
The Good Guys (2010)
Goldilocks (2010, 2011, 2012)
Human Target (2011)
Bones (2011)
Breaking Bad (2011)
Sanctuary (2011)
Nikita (2012)
Thundercats (voice, 2012)
Hawaii Five-0 (2012)
Top Chef Canada (2012)
Cracked (2013)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2014)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2014)
Grimm (2014)
Scandal (2014)
Sequestered (2014)
Jane the Virgin (2014, 2015)
The Player (2015)
Dark Matter (2016)
Beauty and the Beast (2016)
Major Crimes (2016)
Swedish Dicks (2016)
Conviction (2016)
Lopez (2017)
Scorpian (2017)
Jean-Claude Van Johnson (2017)
Lethal Weapon (2017, 2018)
Ransom (2017, 2018)
American Horror Story (2018)
The Flash (2019)
The Left Right Game (2020)
Borrasca (2020)
Titans (2021)
High Desert (2022)
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