ACTOR
Judd Nelson
- Known for
- St. Elmo's Fire (1985), Airheads (1994), Suddenly Susan (1996), The Black Hole (2006)
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Judd Nelson is an actor best known for St. Elmo's Fire, Airheads and Suddenly Susan.
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- #001
Judd Nelson comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family (with roots in Russia, Poland, Romania and Lithuania).
- #002
Along with Andrew McCarthy, Anthony Michael Hall, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy, he was one of the nine original members of the 1980s "Brat Pack."
- #003
His two most notable film roles were released in 1985 and were opposite types of characters. In The Breakfast Club he played a burned-out, stony high school kid who doubted that many people, himself included, had a future, and in St. Elmo's Fire he played an overachieving yuppie college graduate with political ambitions for the future.
- #004
He was once engaged to Shannen Doherty.
- #005
He enjoys playing golf, reading, writing and riding motorcycles.
- #006
His parents are Leonard and Merle Nelson. He has two younger sisters, Eve and Julie Nelson.
- #007
He attended the prestigious Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania.
- #008
He went to St. Paul's preparatory school in Concord, New Hampshire.
- #009
His favorite baseball team is the Boston Red Sox.
- #010
He appeared in John Parr's music video for "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" (1985).
- #011
When he left Suddenly Susan (1996), he was replaced by his The Transformers: The Movie (1986) co-star Eric Idle.
- #012
He had a Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Talluah Bighead (deceased).
- #013
He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
- #014
He is a graduate of the Stella Adler Acting Studio.
- #015
Judd was the oldest member of the acclaimed "Brat Pack." In "The Breakfast Club" he was actually 27 years old while playing a 17-year-old.
- #016
He was originally set to play Captain Miller in Event Horizon (1997) after Steel (1997), but the actor was hospitalized in Los Angeles at the time due to an injury he suffered after finishing that film's shoot, and Nelson could not travel to London, where Event Horizon (1997) was being filmed, and actor Lawrence Fishburne was brought in in his place.
- #017
His manager is Steven Siebert.
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