Judd Nelson: roles, biography

Judd Nelson is an American actor, producer and screenwriter, native of Portland (USA). He took part in the creation of 135 films, among which there are such popular films as "Club" Breakfast "," Lights of St. Elm ". I was engaged in scoring the cartoon "Transformers". He acted in such famous TV series as "Empire", "CSI: Crime Scene", "Beyond the Possible", "Detective Agency" Moonlight "and others. By the sign of the horoscope Sagittarius. His height is 178 cm. In 1988 he was among the nominees for the Golden Globe Award as Best Actor of the mini-series on TV. He became famous for playing the role of negative characters.

Biography

Judd Nelson was born in a Jewish family on November 28, 1959 in the city of Portland (USA). Her mother's name was Merla, she worked in court, his father Leonard was engaged in legal activities. The family grew three children: Judd and his two sisters. First, the future actor was trained in Concorde, then moved to a school located in Portland. After that, I was in Pennsylvania College, which I left after the second year. In 1980, he went to Manhattan to study acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory.

Path to the cinema

Four years later he was on the set for the first time as an actor in the film "How to finish the school" (Making the Grade). In this picture he played the clever but poor guy Eddie Keaton, attending classes in one educational institution instead of the lazy son of the rich Vidrou, who meanwhile decided to rest in Europe. Deception can be revealed at any moment, and if this happens, the rich man and the poor Eddie, who managed to fall in love with one of the pupils of this school, do not feel well, and now, because of the circumstances, do not want to look like a liar in her eyes.

The first step in the cinematograph was not breakthrough for Nelson, but his next work in the movie "Club" Breakfast "turned for him by gaining fame and getting the status of a rising star. The picture was viewed by 13 million viewers only in the US, and the costs of its production paid off many times. Judd Nelson could not have played in this film. Since initially it was not planned to take on the role of Bender, which was already assigned to the actor Emilio Estevez. However, it so happened that the project director could not find the actor for the role of Andrew Clark, so decided that she would move to Estevze, and he had to put Judd Nelson on the vacant seat.

In 1985, he played in the comedy drama "Fandango", where he was lucky enough to share the set with Kevin Costner. This story tells about a company of friends who have just graduated from the university who decided to celebrate the beginning of a new life by traveling to Texas.

In the same year, Judd Nelson appeared on US movie screens, starring in Joel Schumacher's film The Lights of St. Elmah, in the success of which he was assisted by Demi Moore and Rob Lowe.

In 1986, the actor voiced one of the heroes of the fantastic cartoon "Transformers". Then he appeared in one of the series of the television project "Detective Agency" Moonlight "with Bruce Willis, where he played a policeman.

Nominee

In 1987, the actor played a major role in the thriller of the television format "Club of Billionaires." His work received good reviews from critics and allowed him to become a nominee for the Golden Globe Award in 1988.

The roles of the 1990s

In 1990, there was an impressive role in the film "Hiroshima: From the Ashes", based on real events related to the unprecedented cruelty of the US nuclear attack on Japanese cities during the end of World War II.

Since 1991, Judd Nelson, whose photo is posted in this article, has starred in Adam Rifkin's comedy "Back to the Dark", where the company was made up of actor Bill Paxton and Lara Flynn Boyle. Then there were roles in the thriller "The Primary Motive" and in the comedy series "Tales from the Crypt".

In 1994, he took part in several projects: "Trembling", "Murder blindly, or In captivity obsession" (in which Shannen Doherty also starred), "Hollowheads". Then there was work in a fantastic series "Beyond the possible", which was broadcast on television channels for seven seasons.

In 1999, the viewer was presented with the film "Lodge by the Lake", in which Judd Nelson played the main character. This is a story about a successful screenwriter taking a house by the lake in order to hide under the water the bodies of the girls he kills because of his obsession with the desire to find such a monstrous theme for his creativity. Miraculously escaping from his deadly embrace, one of the victims leads the police to a secret place where the bodies of the victims of this maniac are. However, the bloody screenwriter manages to get out of the water then, and he captivates the fugitive again.

Roles of the 2000s

In the 2000s, Judd Nelson, whose most of the films are still in great demand today, was filmed in television projects such as The Clairvoyant and The Black Hole. "Transformers", "Kompromat", "Infection" and others.

In 2007, he starred in the comedy detective about the vampires "Corporation of monsters." In 2013, Judd Nelson wrote in his list of roles in the horror film "Nurse". This is a story about a medical worker who at night changes her positive status as a savior of people to the opposite, killing those who are unlucky to stand on her bloody path.

In 2017, he was among the actors who starred in the television project "From an excellent student to a porn star."

The personal life of Judd Nelson is the way of an unmarried person. The media has information that at one time he was engaged to Shannen Doherty, but the relationship had no development and did not lead to the creation of a family.