
Judd Nelson
Department: Acting
Biography
Judd Asher Nelson (born November 28, 1959) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as John Bender in The Breakfast Club, Alec Newbury in St. Elmo's Fire, Joe Hunt in Billionaire Boys Club, Nick Peretti in New Jack City, Billy Beretti in Empire, and Jack Richmond in the television series Suddenly Susan.
Known For

The Breakfast Club
1985

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
2001

The Transformers: The Movie
1986

New Jack City
1991

Fandango
1985

The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
2009

St. Elmo's Fire
1985

Netherbeast Incorporated
2007

Cabin by the Lake
2000

Return to Cabin by the Lake
2001

From the Hip
1987

Far Out Man
1990

Steel
1997

Infected
2008

Cybermutt
2003

Airheads
1994

Falcon Down
2001

Don't You Forget About Me
2010

The Day the Earth Stopped
2008

Endure
2010

Clerk
2021

Three Wise Guys
2005

White Rush
2003

The Terror Experiment
2010

The Lost Angel
2005

#Unknown
2022

Light It Up
1999

Mayor Cupcake
2011

The Dark Backward
1991

The Black Hole
2006

Lost Voyage
2001

Nevermore
2009

Little Hercules
2009

Blue City
1986

Making the Grade
1984

Billionaire Boys Club
1987

Relentless
1989

The Spiral Staircase
2000

A Tale of Two Guns
2022

Deceived
2002

Mr. Rock n Roll: The Alan Freed Story
1999

Blindfold: Acts of Obsession
1994

Rock 'n' Roll Hotel
1983

Santa, Jr.
2002

Cancel Christmas
2011

Shadow People
2011

Bad Kids Go to Hell
2012

The New Adventures of Spin and Marty: Suspect Behavior
2000

Just 45 Minutes from Broadway
2012

The Freediver
2004

Down and Dangerous
2013

Strange Frequency
2001

Flinch
1994

Kristin's Christmas Past
2013

Haunting of the Innocent
2014

Dante's Hotel
2023

Road to the Open
2014

The Most Dangerous Game
2022

South of Hope Street
2024

Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party
2004

Dark Asylum
2001

Nurse 3-D
2013

Every Breath
1994

Bigfoot Wars
2014

The Cure for Boredom
2001

Teen Spirit: Teenagers and Hollywood
2009

The Caretaker
2008

Private Number
2015

Black Friday
2007

Save Christmas
2022

Primary Motive
1992

Circumstances Unknown
1995

Blackwater Trail
1995

This Is Happening
2015

When Duty Calls
2015

Lethal Eviction
2005

Billionaire Boys Club
2018

The Bandit Hound
2016

BRATS
2024

Conflict of Interest
1993

1/1
2018

Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story
2016

Entangled
1993

Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987

Madness in the Method
2019

The Engagement Plan
2024

For a Few Lousy Dollars
1995

From Straight A's to XXX
2017

Caroline at Midnight
1994

Never on Tuesday
1989

Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
1990

National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
2006

Hail Caesar
1994

Transformers: Titans Return
2017

A Single Woman
2008

Transformers: Power of the Primes
2018

Cojot: A Second Chance Comes Only Once
2018

Shattered: If Your Kid's on Drugs
1986

Dauntless: The Battle of Midway
2019

Dead Water
2020

Santa Fake
2019

Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest
2008

The Downside of Bliss
2020

Kreep
2016

Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
2020

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987

Electric Jesus
2020

Iceland is Best
2020

Girl in the Basement
2021

Sincerely Yours
2008

The Final Run
2025

Yellow Lights
2026

Kill Me Now
—

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000

Family Guy
1999

Suddenly Susan
1996

Tales from the Crypt
1989

Las Vegas
2003

Moonlighting
1985

CSI: NY
2004

Eleventh Hour
2008

Hometime
1986

The Outer Limits
1995

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
2023

Nikita
2010

Psych
2006

Empire
2015

Hollywood Squares
1998

Billionaire Boys Club
1987

Phineas and Ferb
2007

Transformers: Titans Return
2017

Transformers: Power of the Primes
2018

The Wonderful World of Disney
1997

Transformers: Animated
2007

Two and a Half Men
2003