Alimi Ballard (born October 17, 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.
Ballard grew up in a working-class area of the Bronx with his mother and older sisters. He knew he wanted to become an actor.
Ballard began acting in high school. He attended Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center in the NE Bronx and participated in their PYT theater program.
Ballard was in Deep Impact (1998), Men of Honor (2000), Three Days of Rain (2002), Black Cloud (2005), and Fast Five (2011).
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. From 2009 to 2011, Ballard portrayed the voice of Falcon in the animated series, The Super Hero Squad Show. In 2011, Ballard played Fusco in Fast Five. He also 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. In 2026, Ballard was cast as William Baines on the ABC soap opera General Hospital. Scenes concerning his debut aired on September 3 of the same year.
Ballard and his wife Dahn Ballard have two children.
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Romanko, Karen A. (2016). Television's Female Spies and Crimefighters: 600 Characters and Shows, 1950s to the Present (Paperback). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. pp. 157–158. ISBN 978-0786496372.
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