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Edoardo Ballerini is a Actor American born on 20 march 1970 at Los Angeles (USA)
Edoardo Ballerini (born March 20, 1970) is an actor, writer, director and film producer. He is best known for his work on screen as junkie Corky Caporale in The Sopranos (2006–2007), Ignatius D'Alessio in Boardwalk Empire, a hotheaded chef in the indie hit Dinner Rush (2001), and an NFL businessman in the blockbuster Romeo Must Die (2000). He has appeared in numerous films and television series, from I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) to the upcoming Omphalos (2013).
His directorial debut, Good Night Valentino, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Ballerini starred in the film as silent film idol Rudolph Valentino.
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Edoardo Ballerini (born March 20, 1970) is an actor, writer, director and film producer. He is best known for his work on screen as junkie Corky Caporale in The Sopranos (2006–2007), Ignatius D'Alessio in Boardwalk Empire, a hotheaded chef in the indie hit Dinner Rush (2001), and an NFL businessman in the blockbuster Romeo Must Die (2000). He has appeared in numerous films and television series, from I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) to the upcoming Omphalos (2013).
His directorial debut, Good Night Valentino, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Ballerini starred in the film as silent film idol Rudolph Valentino.
Biography
Edoardo Ballerini was born to an Italian father, the poet Luigi Ballerini, and an American mother, the writer Julia Ballerini. He grew up between New York City and Milan, Italy. He is a dual citizen, and bilingual. His early schooling took place in New York, at P.S. 41 and later Friends Seminary, before he left home at age 14 for boarding school. From there, he attended Wesleyan University. The summer following his graduation with Honors, Ballerini was given a scholarship to study Latin in Rome. In Italy, he discovered a group of ex-pat actors who were forming a theater company. He joined the troupe. The following fall he attended regular acting classes in New York at HB Studios and The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. He later became an observer at The Actor's Studio. After living for several years in New York, Ballerini moved to Los Angeles in 2000 before eventually returning to New York, where he continues his career.Usually with
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7 Splinters in Time (2018)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller
Actors Al Sapienza, Austin Pendleton, Edoardo Ballerini, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Akiva Schaffer, Greg Bennick
Roles Darius Lefaux
Rating35%
A detective investigates a murder, only to find that the victim is... himself. Soon, he discovers multiple versions of himself, not all of them friendly.
Experimenter (2015)
, 1h38Directed by Michael Almereyda
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Psychologie
Actors Taryn Manning, Winona Ryder, Kellan Lutz, Peter Sarsgaard, Anton Yelchin, John Leguizamo
Roles Paul Hollander
Rating65%
À New York, dans les années 1960-1970, les expériences d'obéissance à l'autorité du psychologue Stanley Milgram.
No God, No Master (2014)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical, Crime
Actors David Strathairn, Samuel Witwer, Ray Wise, Mike Bacarella, Edoardo Ballerini, James Madio
Roles Carlo Tresca
Rating59%
When a series of package bombs show up on the doorsteps of prominent politicians and businessmen in the summer of 1919, U.S. Bureau of Investigation Agent William Flynn (Strathairn) is assigned the task of finding those responsible. He becomes immersed in an investigation that uncovers an anarchist plot to destroy democracy. Based on true events of the 1920s, the film sets the stage for a timely drama with resoundingly similar parallels to the contemporary war on terrorism and the role government plays to defeat it.
Trophy Kids (2011)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Ryan Eggold, David Gallagher, Tahyna Tozzi, Nathan Lee Graham, Tibor Feldman, Tania Raymonde
Roles Christos
Rating56%
To win the celebrity and self-made wealth he craves, an aimless, twenty-something Manhattan playboy devises a film based on his party-boy, club-going lifestyle, and hires a self-destructive aspiring playwright to ghost the feature script. As the mismatched pair struggles to complete the script and get a handle on their misdirected lives, they reveal the sometimes comedic, sometimes tragic behaviors of 'Generation Y'- a generation taught to believe each was incomparably special and messianically gifted. Though they begin to vie for the affections of the same girl, and their chance at success and happiness threatens to crumble, they ultimately each find their own, unique life truths.
Corrado (2009)
, 1h23Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Johnny Messner, Tom Sizemore, Candace Elaine, Edoardo Ballerini, Ken Kercheval, Joseph R. Gannascoli
Roles Salvatore
Rating33%
Corrado is the story of a Los Angeles hit man of the same name. Corrado (Messner) is given the task of eliminating the aging kingpin Vittorio Spinello. He readily accepts the job and is about to perform the hit when he is interrupted by Spinello's new nurse, Julia (Elaine). He shoots the aging Spinello by accident, instead of suffocating him as intended, and flees the scene. Julia is wrongly blamed for the death, and is herself about to be killed by Vittorio's son Paolo (Sizemore), when Corrado rescues her. They are then pursued all over Los Angeles by Paolo and his goons in a bid to escape.
Life Is Hot in Cracktown (2009)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Kerry Washington, Evan Ross, Shannyn Sossamon, Brandon Routh, Lara Flynn Boyle, RZA
Roles Chas
Rating60%
The film intertwines several unsettling stories of people in a Manhattan neighborhood ravaged by crack cocaine.
The Caller (2008)
, 1h35Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Frank Langella, Elliott Gould, Laura Harring, Corey Johnson, Edoardo Ballerini, Helen Stenborg
Roles Teddy
Rating54%
Jimmy Stevens (Frank Langella) is a high level executive at an international energy consulting firm. Haunted by the criminal practices of his company, he decides to expose their corruption. He realizes this betrayal will lead to his murder, so he hires out a detective to trail him during his last days.
Protect and Serve (2006)
Directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Dean Cain, Eric Balfour, Jessica Paré, Monica Potter, Steve Harris, Tamala Jones
Roles Officer John Esparza
Rating70%
La vie et le travail d'officiers de la police de Los Angeles.
The F Word (2005)
, 1h17Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Actors Josh Hamilton, Edoardo Ballerini, Sam Rockwell, Zak Orth, Callie Thorne, Yul Vazquez
Rating62%
Joe Pace, a radio talk show host whose program, The F Word, is being shut down by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after racking up over $1 million in unpaid indecency fines. On his last day on the air, which coincides with the last day of the 2004 Republican National Convention, Joe sets off to broadcast his own one-man march through Manhattan.
Romeo Must Die (2000)
, 1h55Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Martial arts, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Martial arts
Themes Films about sexuality, Sports films, Films about suicide, Théâtre, Martial arts films, Romeo and Juliet, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Gangster films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Jet Li, Aaliyah, Isaiah Washington, Russell Wong, DMX, Delroy Lindo
Roles Vincent Roth
Rating61%
Po Sing (Jon Kit Lee) is waiting for someone in a club in a predominantly African American neighborhood when a group of angry patrons try to start a fight with him. His father's right-hand man Kai (Russell Wong) and his Asian henchmen pull Po out of the club after a brief fight with the bouncers before the meeting can take place. The next day, Po is found murdered.
Dinner Rush (2000)
Directed by Bob Giraldi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Cooking films
Actors Danny Aiello, John Rothman, Edoardo Ballerini, Vivian Wu, Kirk Acevedo, John Corbett
Roles Chef Udo Cropa
Rating71%
Looking for an Echo (2000)
, 1h37Directed by Martin Davidson
Origin USA
Actors Armand Assante, Diane Venora, Edoardo Ballerini, Joe Grifasi, Tom Mason, Anthony Denison
Roles Anthony Pirelli
Rating65%
The lead singer of an oldies group reminisces about the good ol' days and a potential comeback.
Free (2000)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Romantic comedy
Actors Corin Nemec, Randall Batinkoff, Ione Skye, Carmen Llywelyn, J. Kenneth Campbell, Ellen Crawford
Rating71%
The Last Days of Disco (1998)
, 1h53Directed by Whit Stillman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman, Mackenzie Astin, Tara Subkoff, Robert Sean Leonard
Roles Victor
Rating66%
In the early 80s Alice Kinnon (Chloë Sevigny) and Charlotte Pingress (Kate Beckinsale), two young Hampshire College graduates. work in a New York publishing house as poorly paid readers. After work they are able to enter an exclusive disco nightclub where Alice is hoping to meet Jimmy Steinway (Mackenzie Astin), who works in advertising and uses the nightclub to entertain clients. Jimmy is ill-tempered because he has been barred from bringing clients to the nightclub and is eventually kicked out by his friend Des McGrath (Chris Eigeman), who works as a manager at the club but whose job is in jeopardy for allowing Jimmy and his clients inside.
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about education, Films about school violence
Actors Treat Williams, Edoardo Ballerini, Susan May Pratt, Christopher Cousins, Michael Michele, Lawrence Gilliard, Jr.
Roles Danny Bramson
Rating51%
Randall Thomasson is gunned down while attempting to talk his way out of a carjacking. His brother, Carl, attends his funeral and attempts to make amends with his niece, who is angry that Carl never contacted her or her father.