Elliot Ruiz (born 1985) is an American film actor and a former U.S. Marine.
[1] The war ended for him in April 2004 when an Iraqi drove a car through barbed wire at a checkpoint, and the wire almost tore Ruiz's leg apart.
[2] Doctors told him he would never walk again, but eventually he started to jog and run around.
In 2007 he got his break with acclaimed drama film Battle for Haditha, which was directed by British director Nick Broomfield.
Ruiz could next be seen in a war film 21 and a Wake-Up (2010), starring Amy Acker, Danica McKellar and Faye Dunaway.