# Alimi Ballard

Alimi Ballard (born 1972 or 1973) is an American television actor. He is best known for his role as FBI agent David Sinclair on the CBS police procedural thriller Numb3rs (2005–2010), as well as the Quizmaster from Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

## Early life

Ballard began acting in high school. He attended Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center in the NE Bronx and participated in their PYT theater program.

## Career

From 1993 to 1996, Ballard portrayed Frankie Hubbard (son of All My Children supercouple Jesse and Angie) on the ABC daytime soap opera Loving and its successor series The City. In 1997, he was a regular cast member on the short-lived ABC sitcom Arsenio, which starred Arsenio Hall and Vivica A. Fox. He also portrayed Quizmaster Albert on the ABC/WB series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1997–99) and Herbal on the Fox series Dark Angel (2000–01).
From 2005 to 2010, Ballard co-starred in the CBS police procedural thriller, Numb3rs, as David Sinclair. In 2011, Ballard guest-starred as Special Agent Gayne Levin on another CBS procedural, NCIS. This guest role reunited him with Michael Weatherly, who previously co-starred with Ballard on three series: Loving, The City, and Dark Angel. From 2012 to 2015, he played a recurring role on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Officer Crawford, a newly promoted detective, after appearing in season 3 as a music producer. He also guest starred on NYPD Blue, American Dreams, Rizzoli & Isles, Drop Dead Diva, Castle, and Bones.
In 2015, Ballard was cast opposite Mireille Enos in the ABC legal thriller, The Catch, leaving after the first season.

## Personal life

Ballard and his wife Dahn have two children.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1998 | Deep Impact | Bobby Rhue | |
| 2000 | Little Richard | - | TV movie |
| 2000 | Before Now | Jay | Short |
| 2000 | Men of Honor | Coke | |
| 2001 | Automatic | David Blake | |
| 2002 | Three Days of Rain | Derrick | |
| 2003 | Studio City | Leonard Alworth | Short |
| 2004 | Black Cloud | Dusty | |
| 2011 | Fast Five | Fusco | |
| 2011 | Interception | Joe | Short and also executive producer |
| 2013 | Present Trauma | Tom | Short |
| 2013 | The Insomniac | Officer Flores | |
| 2014 | Lost Angels | Nathaniel | |
| 2014 | Santa Con | Steve Repperton | TV movie |
| 2015 | Touched | B.R. | |
| 2017 | Call Me King | Dwight | |
| 2017 | Smokd | Juror #5 | Short |
| 2019 | Kill Chain | The Curious Assassin | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1993–1995 | Loving | Frankie Hubbard | Main cast |
| 1995 | New York Undercover | Kalim | Episode: "Private Enemy No. 1" |
| 1995–1996 | The City | Frankie Hubbard | Main cast |
| 1997 | Arsenio | Matthew Deveaux | Main cast |
| 1997–1998 | Sabrina, the Teenage Witch | Albert the Quizmaster | Main cast (season 2) |
| 1999 | Malcolm & Eddie | Duke Gibson | Episode: "Daddio" |
| 2000 | Nash Bridges | Shane West | Episode: "Liar's Poker" |
| 2000 | NYPD Blue | Marcus Potter | Episode: "Lucky Luciano" |
| 2000–2001 | Dark Angel | Herbal Thought | Main cast (season 1) |
| 2002 | Philly | Dwight Thomas | Episode: "Ripley, Believe It or Not" |
| 2002 | The Division | Ethan Pasterfield | Episode: "Unfamiliar Territory" |
| 2003 | She Spies | Kelly Sawyer | Episode: "We'll Be Right Back" |
| 2003 | Boomtown | Young Marvin Lloyd | Episode: "The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang" |
| 2003 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Music Producer | Episode: "Lady Heather's Box" |
| 2004 | American Dreams | Jamal | Recurring cast: Season 2 |
| 2005–2010 | Numb3rs | David Sinclair | Main cast |
| 2009–2011 | The Super Hero Squad Show | Falcon (voice) | Main cast |
| 2011 | NCIS | Special Agent Gayne Levin | Recurring cast (season 8) |
| 2012 | In Plain Sight | Eddie Fredericks/Eddie Williams | Episode: "Reservations, I've Got a Few" |
| 2012 | Rizzoli & Isles | Cliff | Episode: "What Doesn't Kill You" |
| 2012 | Drop Dead Diva | Jack Dillingham | Episode: "Winning Ugly" |
| 2012 | Hollywood Heights | Det. Ferrantino | Recurring cast (season 2) |
| 2013 | Bones | FBI Agent James | Episode: "The Secret in the Siege" |
| 2013 | Melissa & Joey | Paul Wagner | Episode: "Inside Job" |
| 2013 | Hello Ladies | Armand | Episode: "The Dinner" |
| 2014 | Scorpion | Co-Pilot | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2012–2015 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Detective Kevin Crawford | Recurring cast (seasons 13–15) |
| 2015 | Castle | Frank Jackson | Episode: "Castle, P.I." |
| 2016 | The Catch | Reginald Lennox III | Main cast (season 1) |
| 2016 | Criminal Minds | Desmond Holt | Episode: "Mirror Image" |
| 2017 | Lucifer | Dr. Liam Garrity | Episode: "God Johnson" |
| 2017 | Queen Sugar | Dr. Robert Dubois | Recurring cast (season 2) |
| 2018 | Do It Better | Darren | Episode: "Day One" |
| 2018 | Elementary | Don Kohler | Episode: "Once You've Ruled Out God" |
| 2018 | The Good Doctor | Mara's Father | Episode: "Middle Ground" |
| 2018 | Mom | Professor Gannon | Episode: "Pork Loin and a Beat Up Monte Carlo" |
| 2019 | S.W.A.T. | Officer Thompson | Episode: "Fallen" |
| 2019 | Doom Patrol | Joshua Clay | 2 episodes |
| 2019 | The Resident | Detective Raines | Episode: "Saints & Sinners" |
| 2019–2021 | Queen of the South | Marcel Dumas | Recurring cast (seasons 4–5) |
| 2020 | All Rise | Niles Allen | Episode: "What The Constitution Greens to Me" |
| 2020 | NCIS: Los Angeles | AUSA Allan Williams | Episode: "Missing Time" |
| 2021 | Animal Kingdom | Phoenix | Episode: "Family Business" & "Home Sweet Home" |
| 2021–2022 | One of Us Is Lying | Kevin Clay | Recurring cast (season 1); Main cast (season 2) |
| 2022 | The Rookie | Langston Bryant | Episode: "Fight or Flight" |
| 2024–2025 | Law & Order | Defense Attorney Ron Delahunt | 2 episodes |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2009 | Marvel Super Hero Squad | Falcon (voice) |
| 2010 | Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet | Falcon (voice) |
| 2011 | Marvel Super Hero Squad: Comic Combat | Falcon (voice) |
| 2011 | Marvel Super Hero Squad Online | Falcon, Miles Morales / Spider-Man (voice) |