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Courthouse role gives Balfour the courage of 'Conviction'

NEW YORK -- Eric Balfour has the look of a needle. A needle -- if it were human, curiously handsome and a promising young actor. Maybe even an on-the-brink star.

At 28, he is rail-thin and rangy, with a lean face and sharp chin. He seems to occupy two dimensions in the physical world. His performances are where the third dimension comes to light.

On NBC's new courthouse drama "Conviction," Balfour plays Brian Peluso, one of a team of Manhattan assistant district attorneys. He has a push-the-limits brashness -- the sort of guy who reports to work hungover and disheveled, having left not only his latest conquest in her bed, but his D.A. badge there, too.

But he fights for his clients, ...

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