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.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2007100 Films and a Funeral — Self - Narrator (voice)