Carlo Rota

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Carlo Rota played Morris O'Brian during Season 5 and Season 6 of 24.

[edit] Biography

Mr. Rota grew up in London, England with a brother and two sisters. Both of his parents were Italian and he grew up speaking both English and Italian. His father worked as a chef and his mother as a seamstress. Carlo has 9 nieces and nephews. He worked as a chef at Allen's in New York and when his parents moved to Toronto went there to work in the restaurant his parents had opened. While working there he acted and has been an actor ever since. He is best known for his role as Mafia Don "Pappa Joe" Yakavetta in The Boondock Saints, in which he acted with Michael Yavnieli, and as host of the Great Canadian Food Show.