Ball served as the deputy mayor of Launceston, Tasmania's second-largest city, from 2011 until his death in 2014 due to a car accident.

He was best known for his portrayal of Warren Harvey in the 1997 ABC television series, Fallen Angels, as well as a small role as a businessman in The Matrix in 1999.

[3] Ball was born in Wonthaggi, Victoria, in 1968,[5] the third son of general practitioner John Jennings Ball, head of a landed gentry family of Veryan, Cornwall, and Caroline, daughter of Ivor Cresswell Wellsford Bayldon, OBE, of Tanzania.

[3] Ball was killed in a head-on car accident on the Bass Highway near Carrick, Tasmania, shortly before 1:00 p.m. on 15 September 2014, at the age of 45.

[3] Ball's four-wheel drive vehicle crossed the highway and collided head-on with a log truck traveling in the opposite direction.