Carlo Dante Rota (April 17, 1961) is a British-Canadian actor best known for The Boondock Saints, Saw V, and Othello The Tragedy Of The Moore. Thanks to personal and family histories that span Europe, Asia, and the Americas, he's mixed in both skin and accent, giving him a versatile range that has allowed him to play any number of roles.
He is married to actress Nazneen Contractor and they have two children.
Film Roles
- Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould as C.B.S. Producer
- Tek War Tek Lab as Doorman
- Friends At Last as Neil
- First Degree as Joe Galeno
- Down Came A Blackbird as Sgt. Manuel Ortega
- Maximum Risk as Bohemia Bartender
- The Wrong Guy as French Restaurant Waiter
- City Of Dark as Plato
- Naked City Justice With A Bullet as Findlay Clerk
- Murder In A Small Town as Charles
- The Boondock Saints as Yakavetta
- The Last Witness as Mr. Zander
- Catch A Falling Star as Harry Goldberg
- Mission to Mars as Ambassador
- Trapped In A Purple Haze as David Lebeff
- Phantom of the Megaplex as Tyler Jesseman
- A Colder Kind Of Death as Hairdresser
- Rough Air Danger On Flight 534 as Cal Matthews
- Rock My World as Tony Manson
- The Gospel of John as Chief Temple Guard
- The Last Hit as Mario
- Cake 2005 as Bob Jackman
- Time Bomb as Musab Hyatti
- Cold Play as Nigel
- Othello The Tragedy Of The Moor as Othello
- Saw V as Charles
- Shark City as Ventura Ritt
- Ecstasy as Solo (TV Movie)
- Man On The Train as Max
- Pegasus Vs Chimera as King Orthos
- ''Small Time' as Panama Hat Man
- Brick Mansions as George the Greek
- After The Ball as Richard
- People You May Know as Bill
- Spinning Man as Santos
- State Like Sleep as Dr. Iyengar
- Welcome To Nowhere as The General
- Trespassers as Sgt. Daniels
- Cliffs Of Freedom as Mustapha Bey
- ''The Big Wish' as Morlett
- The Diggers as Mister Meister
- A Perfect Plan as Theo
- Trigger Point as Dwight Logan
Television Roles
- Street Legal as Waiter (1 episode)
- Matrix as Roche (1 episode)
- Forever Knight as Roy Martin (1 episode)
- Viper as Harry Ibarra (1 episode)
- Kung Fu: The Legend Continues as Dassas/Torquemada (2 episodes)
- The Sentinel as Jack Buchanan (1 episode)
- Traders as Brunet (9 episodes)
- La Femme Nikita as Mick Schtoppel/Mr. Jones (15 episodes)
- Highlander: The Raven as Mario Cardoza (1 episode)
- Black Harbour as Grant (1 episode)
- Total Recall 2070 as Kelly
- Earth: Final Conflict as Margolis (1 episode)
- Psi Factor as Bert Kay (1 episode)
- Canada A Peoples History as David Samwell (1 episode)
- Relic Hunter as Sultan/Lagerfeld (2 episodes)
- Doc as Jason Hemmings (1 episode)
- A Nero Wolfe Mystery as various (4 episodes)
- Adventures Inc as Sergi Borodin (1 episode)
- Queer as Folk (US) as Gardner Vance (9 episodes)
- Veritas The Quest as Ali Hassan Rif (1 episode)
- Street Time as Arthur Marx (2 episodes)
- Show Me Yours as Paul (1 episode)
- This is Wonderland as Giuseppe Burelli (1 episode)
- 24 as Morris O'Brian (29 episodes)
- Little Mosque on the Prairie as Yasir Hamoudi (69 episodes)
- Shark as Anton Robitaille (1 episode)
- White Collar as Ghovat (1 episode)
- Stargate Universe as Carl Strom (2 episodes)
- Castle as Bahir Harun (1 episode)
- CSI: NY as Joseph Vance (1 episode)
- NCIS: Los Angeles as Kalil Abramson (1 episode)
- The Good Guys as Asher (1 episode)
- Goldilocks as Ivan (3 episodes)
- Human Target as Eli Rosko (1 episode)
- Bones as Lambert Chaisson (1 episode)
- Breaking Bad as Benicio Fuentes (1 episode)
- The Mentalist as Dimitri Zubov (1 episode)
- Sanctuary as Richard Feliz/Feodor 'Frank' Glazov (3 episodes)
- Nikita as Ian Damscus (1 episode)
- ThunderCats (2011) as Ratar-O (1 episode)
- World Without End as Edmund (4 episodes)
- Hawaii Five-0 as Sean Winston (1 episode)
- Cracked (2013) as Mandar Kush (1 episode)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as Luca Russo (1 episode)
- CSI as Karl Schrute (1 episode)
- Grimm as Hedig (1 episode)
- Scandal as Ivan (3 episodes)
- Sequestered as Niles (2 episodes)
- Jane the Virgin as Emilio Solano (8 episodes)
- The Player as Daoud Raqiv (1 episode)
- Dark Matter (2015) as Warden (2 episodes)
- Beauty and the Beast (2012) as Dr. Albert Garrus (1 episode)
- Major Crimes as Alfred de Concini (1 episode)
- Swedish Dicks as Dimitri Nobakov (1 episode)
- Conviction (2016) as Vince Scarlata (1 episode)
- Lopez as Danny Green (1 episode)
- Scorpion as Gen. Savic (1 episode)
- Jean-Claude Van Johnson as Dragan (3 episodes)
- Lethal Weapon (2016) as Guillermo Azoulay (2 episodes)
- Ransom as Damian Delaine (3 episodes)
- American Horror Story as Anton LaVey
- American Horror Story: Apocalypse as Anton LaVey (3 episodes)
- The Flash (2014) as Remington Meister (1 episode)
- Borrasca as Officer Jameson/Pastor (2 episodes)
Video Game Roles
- Splinter Cell: Blacklist as Majid Sadiq
- Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (Definitive Edition) as various
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla as Basim/Loki
