Carlo Rota

Carlo Rota

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Birth name: Carlo Rota
Date of birth: 17 April 1961
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Nickname: Carlo
Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)

Famous Quote: “I love acting, I absolutely love it. I love the process, I love being able to tell a story through a character, I love all aspects of the performance. It literally hit me one day, that what I really did well, was that I wasn’t a food restaurateur or great business man, actually I was a pathetic business man. But what I did do well and what I really enjoyed was the performance, so that is what I decided to do.”

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Carlo Rota
Edna Talent Management Ltd.
318 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON M5T 1G5, Canada 

Biography:  Carlo Rota is a London-born actor of Italian origin who, after many years living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is now based in Los Angeles, California. He has appeared in numerous popular TV series including 24, Queer as Folk (US version), La Femme Nikita, A Nero Wolfe Mystery and Traders. Currently, Rota co-stars in a new CBC sitcom called Little Mosque on the Prairie, playing Lebanese-Canadian construction contractor Yasir Hamoudi.

He grew up in Soho with two sisters and one brother. Through his life he has lived in many sections of the world, including China, the Philippines, Italy and New York City. Carlo Rota recently made the move from Canada to Los Angeles to advance his acting career in the United States. He is best known to American audiences for his five seasons as Mick Schtoppel on the USA Network’s smash hit “La Femme Nikita” (1997). Joel Surnow, executive producer of the show, created this role specifically for him, and then moved along to create Carlo’s role on “24″ (2001). He also appeared on Showtime’s “Queer as Folk” (2000), The Boondock Saints (1999) and numerous other television shows and movies.

Carlo is well-traveled. Born in London and raised in Italy, Hong Kong, the Bahamas and Canada, his father, an internationally renowned chef, instilled in him a passion for fine cuisine. This led to Carlo co-creating, hosting and directing a popular documentary-styled show on Canada’s Food Network for five seasons. His other interests include trivia, motorcycles and learning to embrace the California lifestyle.

On 24 he plays Morris O’Brian, the arrogant but brilliant computer scientist and ex-husband of Chloe O’Brian. On the TV series La Femme Nikita he had a recurring role as the smarmy greenlisted terrorist informant Mick Schtoppel, and in the 1999 movie The Boondock Saints, Rota starred as crime boss Giuseppe “Papa Joe” Yakavetta.

Rota’s father was a world-renowned chef, and Rota worked in the culinary industry for many years until he decided to abruptly switch careers to acting. According to his interview in the book Inside Section One: Creating and Producing TV’s La Femme Nikita, he said of this decision: “ To turn around and tell everyone at the tender age of 30, “Now I’m going to be an actor,” most people just think that you’re going through something. ” 

Almost immediately thereafter, Rota landed roles in the Canadian TV series Street Legal and the critically-acclaimed independent film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Because of his experience prior to acting, he now hosts the Great Canadian Food Show for CBC television in Canada, a series which was nominated for the prestigious James Beard Award for Excellence in Culinary Journalism.

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