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.

Filmography

• 2026Yellow Lights — Dan Caufield
• 2025The Final Run — Sam Sloane
• 2024South of Hope Street — Tom
• 2024The Engagement Plan — Dash Donnelly
• 2023Dante's Hotel — Brayer
• 2022#Unknown — Garrett Stance
• 2022A Tale of Two Guns — Captain Mathias
• 2022Save Christmas — Malcolm
• 2022The Most Dangerous Game — Marcus Rainsford
• 2021Girl in the Basement — Don
• 2020Electric Jesus — Pastor Wember
• 2020Iceland is Best — Mr. Sonquit
• 2020The Downside of Bliss — Doug
• 2019Dauntless: The Battle of Midway — Rear Admirial Raymond Spruance
• 2019Dead Water — McLean
• 2019Madness in the Method — Miscreant
• 2019Santa Fake — Seb
• 20181/1 — Robert
• 2018Billionaire Boys Club — Ryan Hunt
• 2018Transformers: Power of the Primes — Hot Rod / Rodimus Cron / Rodimus Unicronus / Unicron (voice)
• Transformers: Power of the Primes
• 2017From Straight A's to XXX — Don
• 2017Transformers: Titans Return — Rodimus Prime (voice)/Hot Rod (voice)
• Transformers: Titans Return — Hot Rod
• 2016Kreep — Whitman Thaw
• 2016Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story — Sid
• 2016The Bandit Hound — Manny
• Empire — Billy Baretti
• 2015Private Number — Garrett Stance
• 2015This Is Happening — Steven (Father)
• 2015When Duty Calls — Gary Lawton
• 2014Bigfoot Wars — Dr. Leonard Evans
• 2014Haunting of the Innocent — Mr. Franklin
• 2014Road to the Open — Anger Management Therapist
• 2013Down and Dangerous — Charles Ward
• 2013Kristin's Christmas Past — Glenn
• 2013Nurse 3-D — Dr. Robert Morris
• 2012Bad Kids Go to Hell — Headmaster Nash
• 2012Just 45 Minutes from Broadway — Jimmy D'Angelo
• 2011Cancel Christmas — Santa Claus / Kris Frost
• 2011Mayor Cupcake — Donald Maroni
• 2011Shadow People — Sheriff Donnelly
• 2010Endure — Emory Lane
• Nikita — Ronald Peller
• 2010The Terror Experiment — Agent Wilson
• 2009Little Hercules — Kevin
• 2009Nevermore — Jonathan Usher
• 2009The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day — Concezio Yakavetta
• 2008A Single Woman — Jewish Reporter
• Eleventh Hour — Dr. Bruce Nesic
• 2008Infected — Malcolm Burgess
• 2008The Caretaker — Ella's Dad
• 2008The Day the Earth Stopped — Charlie
• 2008The Kidnapping — Glen
• 2007Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest — John Bender (uncredited) (voice)
• 2007Netherbeast Incorporated — Steven P.D. Landry
• Phineas and Ferb — The Guru (voice)
• Transformers: Animated — Rodimus (voice)
• 2006National Lampoon's TV: The Movie — Fear Factor Host / Self
• Psych — Steven Reidman
• 2006The Black Hole — Eric Bryce
• 2005Lethal Eviction — Shep
• 2005The Lost Angel — Father Brian
• 2005Three Wise Guys — George
• CSI: NY — Cigarette Company Executive
• 2004The Freediver — Ziad
• 2003Cybermutt — Alex
• Las Vegas — Ollie
• Two and a Half Men — Chris
• 2003White Rush — Brian Nathanson, Associate Producer
• 2002Deceived — Jack Jones
• 2002Santa, Jr. — Darryl Bedford
• 2001Dark Asylum — Quitz
• 2001Falcon Down — Harold Peters
• 2001Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back — Sheriff
• 2001Lost Voyage — Aaron Roberts
• 2001Return to Cabin by the Lake — Stanley Caldwell
• 2001Strange Frequency — Martin Potter (segment 'More Than a Feeling')
• Strange Frequency — Martin Potter
• 2001The Cure for Boredom — Max
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Mick Sheridan
• 2000Cabin by the Lake — Stanley
• 2000Endsville — Rufus the Buck-Toothed Sluggard
• 2000The New Adventures of Spin and Marty: Suspect Behavior — Jack Hulka
• 2000The Spiral Staircase — Phillip
• Family Guy — John Bender (voice) (uncredited)
• 1999Light It Up — Ken Knowles
• 1999Mr. Rock n Roll: The Alan Freed Story — Alan Freed
• 1997Steel — Nathaniel Burke
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Jack Hulka
• Suddenly Susan — Jack Richmond
• 1995Blackwater Trail — Matt
• 1995Circumstances Unknown — Paul Kinsey
• 1995For a Few Lousy Dollars — Hitman
• The Outer Limits — Harry Longworth
• 1994Airheads — Jimmie Wing
• 1994Blindfold: Acts of Obsession — Dr. Jennings
• 1994Caroline at Midnight — Phil Gallo
• 1994Every Breath — Jimmy, Writer
• 1994Flinch — Harry Mirapolsky
• 1994Hail Caesar — Prisoner One
• 1993Conflict of Interest — Gideon
• 1993Entangled — David Merkin
• 1992Primary Motive — Andrew Blumenthal
• 1991New Jack City — Nick Peretti
• 1991The Dark Backward — Marty Malt
• 1990Far Out Man — Judd Nelson
• 1990Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes — Pete Dunham
• 1989Never on Tuesday — Motorcycle cop (uncredited)
• 1989Relentless — Arthur 'Buck' Taylor
• Tales from the Crypt — Gaston
• 1987Billionaire Boys Club — Joseph 'Joe' Hunt
• Billionaire Boys Club — Joe Hunt
• 1987Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam — (voice)
• 1987From the Hip — Robin "Stormy" Weathers
• 1987Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville — Vietnam Soldier
• 1986Blue City — Billy Turner
• Hometime
• 1986The Transformers: The Movie — Hot Rod / Rodimus Prime (voice)
• 1985Fandango — Phil Hicks
• Moonlighting — Policeman
• 1985St. Elmo's Fire — Alec Newbary
• 1985The Breakfast Club — John Bender
• 1984Making the Grade — Eddie Keaton
• 1983Rock 'n' Roll Hotel — Johnny
• Kill Me Now
• You Are Here — Zachary

Appearances as themselves (10)

• 2024BRATS — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields — Self
• 2021Clerk — Self
• 2020Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics — Self
• 2010Don't You Forget About Me — Self
• 2009Teen Spirit: Teenagers and Hollywood — Self
• 2008Sincerely Yours — Self
• 2004Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party — Self
• Hollywood Squares — Self - Panelist
• 1986Shattered: If Your Kid's on Drugs — Self - (Visitor in Town)