The Brat Pack
8 members
Eight actors. Two films. One 1985 magazine article that coined the name and made it stick. The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire weren't just hits. They were the moment Hollywood decided teenagers were worth taking seriously. The label stuck harder than any of them wanted.
Members (8)
Emilio Estevez
63
The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire
Rob Lowe
62
St. Elmo's Fire, About Last Night
Molly Ringwald
58
Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink
Anthony Michael Hall
58
The Breakfast Club, Weird Science
Ally Sheedy
63
The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire
Judd Nelson
66
John Bender, the original bad boy
Demi Moore
63
St. Elmo's Fire, About Last Night
Andrew McCarthy
63
Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire
Aftermath
Andrew McCarthy directed Brats (2024), a Hulu documentary that brought most of the group back together to reckon with the label that defined and dogged them.
Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Anthony Michael Hall all declined interviews for Brats, leaving the conversation to the members willing to revisit what the Brat Pack meant.
Demi Moore earned her first Oscar nomination for The Substance, four decades after St. Elmo's Fire.
Molly Ringwald and Demi Moore both appeared in Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, a rare shared project for two former Brat Pack members.
Rob Lowe reinvented himself with The West Wing, trading teen idol status for a career-defining run in prestige TV.