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Alimi Ballard was in the series "Dark Angel" and "American Dreams." His other television credits include "Arsenio," and guest spots on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and "Nash Bridges," for the Network, "NYPD Blue," "Boomtown," "Philly," "She Spies," "The Division," "For the People" and the movie "The Little Richard Story." His first television role was in the daytime drama "Loving."

His feature film credits include "Men of Honor" and "Deep Impact."

Ballard got his start in acting in a local community center, when he was cast in the play "No Laughing Matter." Weeks later, he began touring New York's inner-city libraries, community centers and elementary and high schools. He then began working with theater companies such as the Manhattan Theater Club and the National Black Theater, where he starred in acclaimed productions of "Holiday Heart" and "Endangered Species."

Ballard lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Dawn, and daughter, Naya. His birth date is Oct. 17.
(courtesy of CBS)
Handsome and elegant African-American actor Alimi Ballard recalls such contemporaries as the St. Elsewhere-era Denzel Washington and Blair Underwood, but has only gradually begun to draw like stature and acclaim. After cutting his acting chops as a frequent guest star on various U.S. television series for decades, including Loving, NYPD Blue, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Ballard worked his way up to recurring roles in several U.S. television programs around the turn of the millennium. Ballard is perhaps best known for his portrayal of urban philosopher Herbal Thought, who offered wise counsel to bioengineered superhero Max Guevara (Jessica Alba), on the James Cameron-produced apocalyptic actioner Dark Angel (2000), starring Jessica Alba. Ballard procured another regular TV role a few years later, playing Special Agent David Sinclair opposite Rob Morrow and Judd Hirsch in the weekly procedural Numb3rs (2005), a detective program about a brilliant mathematician (David Krumholtz) who helps the feds solve baffling crimes. Ballard also appeared in bit roles in the big-screen films Deep Impact (1998) and Men of Honor (2000). Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

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