Balderrama was born in Mexico City to a Mexican father and an American mother and moved to England when he was ten.
[1][2] After graduating from drama school,[3] Balderrama made his professional stage debut as Benvolio in the 2003 English Touring Theatre production of Romeo and Juliet alongside Adam Croasdell, Laura Rees, OT Fagbenle, and Michael Cronin.
[10] He portrayed James W. Horne in the 2018 biographical comedy film Stan & Ollie with Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly and had a recurring role as Tony in the BBC One drama Press.
He had further voice roles in video games such as the English dub of Dragon Quest XI, The Crew 2, and Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
In 2021, he starred in A Fight Against… (Spanish: Una Lucha Contra…) at the Royal Court Theatre[11] and the video game It Takes Two with Annabelle Dowler; for the latter, Balderrama performed motion capture and voiced the lead character Cody as well as Dr Hakim.