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November 28, 1959 in Portland, ME
Biography:Even by the unexacting standard of Hollywood's 1980s "brat pack," actor "Judd Nelson" seemed wildly undisciplined and self-indulgent on screen. One tends to conclude that Nelson (a former philosophy student and the son of a Maine politician) has played his screen characters as written: he was, after all, very well trained by famed drama coach "Stella Adler", and came up from the exacting ranks of summer stock. Among his earliest screen assignments -- all in his watershed year of 1985 -- including the dope-smoking detentionee in "The Breakfast Club", "Kevin Costner"'s parachute-jumping fraternity pal in "Fandango", and "Ally Sheedy"'s philandering live-in boyfriend in "St. Elmo's Fire". Always seeming to be on the verge of punching someone out, Nelson was well cast as a mercurial killer in 1989's "Relentless". Like many brat-packers, Judd Nelson has appeared in fewer and fewer films in the 1990s.... Full Biography
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Judd Nelson turns 49 on Nov. 28. (Gary Lewis / Retna Ltd.)
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