Carlo Rota
Carlo Rota ( born April 17, 1961 in London, England) is a British- Canadian actor of Italian descent.
Life and achievements
Carlo Rota was born in London's Soho. He has a brother named Marco and two sisters. The father, Dante Rota, comes from the Piedmont and the mother, Rina, from Sardinia. The now retired father was a well-known chef, and his mother worked as a seamstress and cook. Carlo Rota learned the English and Italian language and grew up in Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. Carlo Rota worked in New York at Joe Allen's restaurant Orso and was voted the best maître d' hôtel of the year 1987. He also moved to Canada to participate in the restaurant operation with parents.
In the early 1990s, at the age of 29 years, Rota turned to another profession and took acting lessons. In Toronto he was doing theater. Rota's first and most major film role was in the award-winning film drama The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978 ) by director Ermanno Olmi. Smaller supporting roles embodied Rota, among others in the films Maximum Risk (1996 ), The Last Witness - Only dead witnesses mention (1999) with Natasha Henstridge, The Boondock Saints (1999), the space adventure Mission to Mars (2000), directed by Brian De Palma and if a mother's love to hell is ( 2000). In a larger appearance, he hired a annoying airline passenger in Flight 534 - Death on the Clouds ( 2001) with Eric Roberts dar.
Rota hosted at The Great Canadian Food Show in British television station CBC Television, the part of the State Broadcasting Corporation CBC / Radio -Canada. Rota traveled to show by Canada to the many culinary delights of the country in the 65 episodes of the five seasons. His culinary journalism was honored in 2001 by a nomination for the James Beard Award. He was also nominated as the 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 spy series Nikita (1997-2001) with Peta Wilson and Roy Dupuis. He has appeared in several television series, such as in several episodes of Traders (1998), where he had regular appearances in Relic Hunter (2001) and Queer as Folk ( 2003, 2004). He moved to Los Angeles and plays the CTU agents Morris O'Brian, who in the fifth, sixth, and seventh season (2006 and 2008), this real-time series occurs in the action series 24. 2009 Rota finally played the role of terrorists Kalil Abramson in the American television series NCIS: Los Angeles.
In 2013 he played the antagonist Majid Sadiq in Tom Clancy 's Splinter Cell: Blacklist, a video game from Ubisoft Montreal.