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The Breakfast Club 30 Years Later


5. Judd Nelson – The Criminal

Nelson played bad boy John Bender, a repeat offender at the Saturday detention, this time in for pulling the fire alarm. You couldn’t help but feel sorry for this character after he revealed he had an abusive dad. Nelson went on to star in the big Brat Pack hit St. Elmo’s Fire. He’s continued to have steady work, but hasn’t really played many notable roles since the 80s. He worked on the television sitcom Suddenly Susan in the late 1990s, and recently was seen in Empire. Perhaps his biggest post-Breakfast Club claim to fame is that he (or his character) was the inspiration for the bully, Nelson, on The Simpsons.

Judd Nelson
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