Sammi Rotibi

Sammi Rotibi
Sammi Rotibi
Born	Nigeria
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997–present

Sammi Rotibi is a Nigerian-American film and television actor. His most notable roles are Rodney in Django Unchained^[1] and General Amajagh in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.^[2] His acting idols are Sidney Poitier and Peter O'Toole.

Background

Rotibi was born and grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. He attended schools in Nigeria; Miami, Florida; and Los Angeles, California. He is the youngest child of a large family.^[3] He decided to become an actor at 18 while working as a part-time bank teller in Miami when a client who owned a talent-agency suggested it as a profession to him.^[4]^[1]

Filmography

Film


Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Extramarital	Tyrone
2003	Tears of the Sun	Arthur Azuka
2003	The Wounded	Noa	Direct-to-video
2004	Lord of War	Andre Baptiste Junior
2006	Yellow	Red
2009	Blue	Lamont
2011	CIS: Las Gidi	Officer Bolaji Ladejo
2011	Okoto the Messenger	Mr. Reuben
2011	40-Life	Tourist
2012	LUV	Jamison
2012	Maniac	Jason
2012	The Punisher: Dirty Laundry	Goldtooth	Short
2012	Django Unchained	Rodney
2014	Cru	Adisa Ewansiha
2015	Bad Asses on the Bayou	Geoffrey	Direct-to-video
2016	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	General Amajagh
2016	Broken Vows	Sam
2016	Blue: The American Dream	Lamont
2017	Once Upon a Time in Venice	Gigi
2018	The Darkest Minds	Paul Daly
2018	El Africano	Aaron Bello
2019	The Obituary of Tunde Johnson	Adesola Johnson
2021	The Forbidden Wish	Nate
2021	The Forever Purge	Darius
2023	57 Seconds		Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997, 2003	NYPD Blue	Dele Okafor / Nigerian #1	2 episodes
1998	Always Outnumbered	Marlow Bitta	Television film
2001	The District	Young Officer Noland	Episode: "A Southern Town"
2001	18 Wheels of Justice	Marchand	Episode: "Come Back, Little Diva"
2001	Special Unit 2	Cop #2	Episode: "The Waste"
2001	Son of the Beach	African Worker	Episode: "The Sexorcist"
2001	The Jennie Project	Kwele	Television film
2001	The Invisible Man	Jarod	Episode: "Den of Thieves"
2003	JAG	Louis Clair	Episode: "The One That Got Away"
2004	The Division	Adam Baker	Episode: "That's Them"
2008	CSI: NY	Arthur Bodie	Episode: "Taxi"
2012	The Secret Circle	Eben	6 episodes
2014	Matador	Didi Akinyele	8 episodes
2015	NCIS: New Orleans	Solomon Ekpo	Episode: "My City"
2015	Scorpion	Jonas Madaky	Episode: "US vs. UN vs. UK"
2016–2018	Mars	Robert Foucault	12 episodes
2017	MacGyver	Hasan	Episode: "Screwdriver"
2017	The Blacklist	Geoffroy Keino	Episode: "The Forecaster (No. 163)"
2019	Chicago P.D.	Marcus West	Episode: "False Positive"
2021	The Lost Symbol	Agent Adamu	Episode: "Pilot"
TBA	57 Seconds	TBA	Post production