Porcupine

The quintessential brooding rebel who keeps the world at arm's length.

Judd Nelson built his career on prickly, guarded outsider roles — most iconically John Bender in The Breakfast Club — and his real-life reputation has mirrored that defensive, difficult-to-approach energy. Known for being intense and hard to work with on set, he has largely retreated from the Hollywood mainstream, living and working on his own guarded terms. Beneath the thorny exterior, however, there is a sensitivity and idealism that echoes the porcupine's gentle core hidden behind its quills.