On screen he is best known for his work as junkie Corky Caporale in The Sopranos and the hotheaded chef in the indie film Dinner Rush (2001).

41 and later Friends Seminary, before he left home for boarding school, attending Deerfield Academy, at age 14 after his parents' divorce.

[2] The following fall, he attended regular acting classes in New York at HB Studio and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

That same year Ballerini was cast as the "star chef" in Bob Giraldi's Dinner Rush (2001) opposite Danny Aiello.

TV credits include roles on 24, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008), the BBC's Ripper Street (2013), Elementary (2015-2016) and Neon Joe (2017).

Beautiful Ruins won the Audio Publishers Association award for best audiobook of the year on the solo male narrator category.

[8] He received Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine for his recordings of Stephen Greenblatt's National Book Award-winning The Swerve, Paul Farmer's Haiti: After the Earthquake (with Meryl Streep and Eric Conger), and Kristopher Jansma's The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards.

His 135-hour recording of Karl Ove Knausgaards six-volume autobiographical opus, My Struggle, which he considers his most ambitious, took him 200 hours over the course of five years to finish.

Stage credits as an adult include "Crossroads" at The Henry Street Settlement (1994), several pieces in "The Eugene O'Neill Project" (1995-1996) at The Actors Studio and The Eugene O'Neill Center, Stefanie Zadravec's "Honey Brown Eyes" (2010) on Theater Row, and John Jesurun's "Chang in a Void Moon" (1997-2015) at The Kitchen and other venues.