Edoardo Ballerini is an actor, writer and director. He is best known for his work on screen as junkie Corky Caporale in The Sopranos (2006-2007), 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 No God, No Master (2010) and Martin Scorsese's Boardwalk Empire (2010). His direc...
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Edoardo Ballerini is an actor, writer and director. He is best known for his work on screen as junkie Corky Caporale in The Sopranos (2006-2007), 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 No God, No Master (2010) and Martin Scorsese's Boardwalk Empire (2010). His directorial debut, Good Night Valentino, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Ballerini starred in the film as silent film idol Rudolph Valentino.
Edoardo Ballerini started his career with character parts. His first professional role was as an autistic teenager on Law & Order (1995). Two years later he starred opposite John Leguizamo as a spoiled gay German in the broad comedy The Pest (1997). While the movie flopped, Ballerini was noticed for his versatility, and was soon playing everything from the highly educated (Whit Stillman's The...
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