JOSEPH
BALDERRAMA

Joseph Balderrama is a Mexico-born actor whose work spans film, television, theatre and voice performance. His representatives describe training at LAMDA, an MA from the University of Glasgow and fluency in Spanish. That background is useful context for a career that moves between English-language screen roles and voice work in several styles. The same performer may be recognizable by his face in one project and by a character’s rhythm or accent in another.

The stage remains part of that range. Balderrama joined the Royal Court Theatre’s 2021 production of Pablo Manzi’s A Fight Against… (Una Lucha Contra…). His screen credits include the lead detective in Matt Reeves’s The Batman (2022) and Julio Spring in Heartstopper, which began in 2022. These are different kinds of ensemble work: a brief film encounter has to establish a person quickly, while a recurring television character can accumulate meaning across separate appearances.

In Hazelight’s cooperative adventure It Takes Two (2021), he voices both Cody and Dr. Hakim, and also performs motion capture for Cody. One role is a playable character at the centre of the story; the other is the animated Book of Love. Hearing the two together makes the separation between characters especially interesting: pace, emphasis and the shape of a phrase have to distinguish personalities performed by the same actor. His voice credits also include the Sorcerer in Diablo IV and Arlecchino in Lies of P.

F1 (2025), directed by Joseph Kosinski, brings him into the racing-film ensemble as Fazio. Placing this screen appearance beside the game performances gives a practical way to explore his work: notice how much a character can be established through timing and delivery, whether the actor is visible in a busy scene or supplying the personality of a digitally created figure.