Izzy Ruiz

Born in New York City's Spanish Harlem, Izzy Ruiz was born to act. He moved to the south Bronx at the age of 5, where he spent most of his life since. Izzy has experienced so much in life, that others would find unbearable or unrealistic. From seeing a man shot in the head when he was 6 years old to seeing a bus run over another child's head when he was 8 years old. He has experienced hundreds of other life and death situations during his life time, and plans on telling his story in the future in screen and stage plays. Izzy was born to Puerto Rican Parents who grounded him with good and positive moral values in the midst of a time when it seemed hell had come to earth. Izzy survived the south Bronx during the late 1960s through the 1980s, when New York City was at its worse. Slum lords were burning the Bronx down, gangs were common and drugs were as common as candy. His guardian angels included some of the most notorious gangs of that time, the Savage Nomads, the Savage Immortals, an