Judd Nelson biography

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Actor. Born on November 28, 1959, in Portland, Maine. The son of a lawyer and a court mediator, Judd Nelson has made a career out of playing bad guys and antiheroes. After two years at Haverford College, he left school to pursue acting. Nelson moved to New York City in 1980 where he studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory.

In 1984, Judd Nelson made his film debut as the street-smart Eddie Keaton in Making the Grade. The next year, his layered portrayal of a tough teenager in The Breakfast Club helped him become a star. The film, which also starred Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, and Anthony Michael Hall, focused on five teenagers serving in-school detention on a weekend. In his next big role, Nelson reunited with Estevez and Sheedy for the post-college drama St. Elmo??s Fire. This time he portrayed a political aide who trades in his beliefs for a higher salary.

Around the mid-1980s, Judd Nelson and several other actors and actresses, such as Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, and Demi Moore, were labeled as the ??Brat Pack.?? Members of this so-called pack were characterized as a young and reckless group that often went out partying. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Judd said, ??At the time this whole gang was supposedly cruising the Sunset Strip, I was living in New York.?? While the Brat Pack label stuck to Nelson, it had no negative effects??his career was at all-time high.

What followed was a series of box office disappointments for Judd Nelson. He had some success with 1991??s New Jack City, but otherwise most of his films failed to draw in movie-goers. In 1996, Nelson branched out in a new direction signing on to his first situation comedy television series, Suddenly Susan. The show starred Brooke Shields as Susan, a copy editor copy who becomes a magazine columnist after dumping her fiancé at the altar. Nelson played Jack, her boss and almost brother-in-law. There was a lot of romantic tension between their two characters, which eventually