Balducci was born in Rome, Italy. He began taking acting classes when he was 14 and in November 2001 he made his stage debut as Romeo in a modern revival of
William Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet, also starring Italian actress Myriam Catania. He is openly gay. After roles in a few TV commercials, he got a small part in
Pupi Avati's
The Knights of the Quest, that marked his film debut. Bigger roles quickly followed in films and television projects such as
The Good Pope: Pope John XXIII, the acclaimed
Incantato and the Italian box office hit
Three Steps Over Heaven. His first lead role was in Luciano Melchionna's
Gas, an indie drama that was selected at the inaugural
Rome Film Festival and for which he won the Best Actor Award at the
Chieti Film Festival. He has appeared in more than thirty European
films and
television series since then, including
Le héros de la famille,
The Stone Council (both opposite
Catherine Deneuve),
André Téchiné's
The Witnesses,
Krzysztof Zanussi's
Black Sun,
Carlos Saura's
I, Don Giovanni and the highly acclaimed Italian TV series
Le cose che restano. In 2009 he received the
Susan Batson Award for his performance in
Due vite per caso at the
San Francisco's
NICE Film Festival. Internationally, he starred in the Mexican romantic comedy
31 Días (opposite
Karla Souza), the controversial Spanish film
Estrella fugaz, the American TV movie
Barabbas (starring
Billy Zane) and the Italian TV series
Mai per amore. He also appeared in the American independent comedy
In search of Fellini (opposite
Maria Bello), the acclaimed short film
Snowflake (as
Tracy Middendorf's love interest and for which he also served as an executive producer) and guest starred in the TV drama
Medici: Masters of Florence. In 2015 he was a member of the jury at the 30th Torino Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in
Turin. On stage, Balducci has starred in several productions of
Dignità Autonome di Prostituzione in both Italy and Spain and, in 2017, he was part of the ensemble cast of Luciano Melchionna's
Spoglia-Toy. In 2018 he starred as John in
7 Miracles, one of the first feature-length cinematic VR experiences which premiered at the 26th
Raindance Film Festival, winning the “VR Film of the Festival” grand jury award. In 2019 he reprised his role in Luciano Melchionna's acclaimed play
Spoglia-Toy and played Giulio Mieli in
Gli anni amari, a
biopic based on the life of
Mario Mieli, a leading figure in the Italian gay movement of the 1970s. In 2021 he starred in the stand-up comedy show
Allegro, Non Troppo, originally produced to debut in 2020 but post-poned due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. After the debut at Teatro dei Filodrammatici in Milan, the show run successfully at the Off-Off Theatre in Rome and then continued to tour around Italy. In 2022 he directed his first music video,
Per Dirsi Mai by Italian electro-pop violinist and singer H.E.R. ==Filmography==