Billy Elliot Billy Elliot Billy Elliot is a 2000 British dance drama film about a boy becoming a professional ballet dancer. It is set in North East England during the 1984–85 coal miners' strike. It was produced by Greg Brenman and Jon Finn, music composed by Stephen Warbeck, co-produced by BBC Films, Tiger Aspect Pictures and Working Title Films, distributed by Universal Pictures and Focus Features, written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. The film stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer dealing with the negative stereotype of the male ballet dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner
Elliot Ruiz but eventually he started to jog and run around. In 2005 he turned to acting, as he got his first movie role in a low budget movie "Shapeshifter". In 2007 he got his break with acclaimed drama film "Battle for Haditha", which was directed by British director Nick Broomfield. He was also a cast in the short film "Juggling in Mosul" (2009). Ruiz could next be seen in a war film "21 and a Wake-Up" (2010), starring Amy Acker, Danica McKellar and Faye Dunaway. Elliot Ruiz Elliot Ruiz (born 1985) is an American film actor and a former U.S. Marine.