An actor and movie producer pleaded guilty Wednesday morning to stabbing his wife nearly three years ago at her South Fayette home.

John Mowod, 61, will be sentenced by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Thomas E. Flaherty on Nov. 19 on charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.

According to the criminal complaint, South Fayette police were called to Courtney Kotar’s home in the 5100 block of Forest Ridge Drive just before 11 p.m. on Nov. 16, 2022, for a report of a stabbing.

When they arrived, Mowod was sitting on a couch in the family room with dried blood on his arms and legs.

The couple’s son told police he heard his mother screaming from inside her bedroom and saw his father over her on the bed with a knife in his hand.

The son got the knife away and told his father to go downstairs, which he did. He then cared for his mother’s injuries, including stab wounds to her neck and arm. She was then taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

Mowod was arrested and has been held at the Allegheny County Jail ever since. He was twice denied bail.

On Wednesday, he also pleaded guilty to a single count of stalking stemming from another incident with his wife in Ingram on Oct. 1, 2022.

According to the criminal complaint in that case, Kotar told police she had gotten a restraining order against her husband a week earlier after he followed her. She became suspicious because she frequently noticed him passing her on the street when she was out, so she checked her vehicle for a tracking device.

She found one on Sept. 30, 2022.

The next day she told police she was at a friend’s house in Ingram when she saw her husband knocking on a neighbor’s door that afternoon and recording video on his cell phone.

She told police she feared her husband and that “she feels he is still tracking her, and she is afraid of what he will do to her.”

Kotar filed for divorce on Nov. 28, 2022.

According to Mowod’s IMDb page, he is listed as an actor, writer and producer. Among his roles, he performed in “Lorenzo’s Oil” in 1992 and “Santa Claws” in 1996.

He was a writer, producer and actor in the 2009 film “Amazing Racer,” which he worked on with Larry Richert of KDKA-Am (1020). It was based on a story involving Mowod’s brother, a horse trainer at the Meadows Casino and Racetrack.

Mowod is the son of Tony Mowod, the late Pittsburgh jazz broadcaster.

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