About Edoardo Ballerini
Edoardo Ballerini is an actor, writer, and celebrated narrator of audiobooks. For his work in narration Edoardo was profiled by The New York Times, which called him “The Voice of God…” His numerous audiobook credits range from classics by Dante and Dostoyevsky to modern day bestsellers from Amor Towles and Karl Ove Knausgaard. On screen, his acting credits include The Sopranos and the recent A Murder at the End of the World. He is also the co-author, with Jess Walter, of The Audible Original “The Angel of Rome.”
Ballerini started out hoping to be a screen actor, a great one. His father, Luigi Ballerini, is a renowned Italian poet, one of the most lauded of his generation. An academic who raised his son in New York, he has also been an interpreter of others, having provided the Italian translations for authors ranging from Melville to Vonnegut. In college, at Wesleyan, in Connecticut, Edoardo majored in English, the kind of student who recorded albums of T.S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas onto cassettes so he could walk around campus with his Walkman, hearing their voices in his ear. He won a fellowship to study Latin in Rome after graduation but, soon after arriving, started acting with a local theater troupe. When he returned to the States, he gave up his plans for graduate school and began auditioning.
