Biografie

He is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Russia, Poland, Romania and Lithuania).

Was one of the nine original members of the 1980s "brat pack", along with Andrew McCarthy, Anthony Michael Hall, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy.

Was once engaged to Shannen Doherty.

His two most notable film roles were both released in 1985 and were polar opposite characters from each other. In The Breakfast Club he played a burnout stoner high school kid who many doubt (including himself) has much of a future and in St. Elmo's Fire he played an overachieving, yuppie college graduate with future political aspirations.

Attended the prestigious Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania.

I think that there's room for everyone. I don't think that if one person succeeds then another must fail. That's lunacy. I'm not sure what the reasons are for my philosophy, maybe it's the fact that if there are ten people doing the same job, we all know how we feel and what our high points and low points are.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

As a kid, I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.

Remember to be as smart as you are. With failure, you just try again.

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.