Ian Nelson

Ian Nelson is an American actor who got his start in local theater and school musicals before training at the North Carolina School of the Arts and Stagedoor Manor. His screen debut was a wordless bit part in The Hunger Games, followed by Alone Yet Not Alone (2013), Medeas (2013) and The Judge, and he appeared in The Best of Me (2014). In The Boy Next Door (2015) he played Kevin, and he later starred in the drama Paper Spiders (2020) with Stefania LaVie Owen and Lili Taylor. For television he was the young Derek Hale in Teen Wolf, had the recurring part of Parker in The Deleted, and stars as Andy in There's...Johnny!, about the backstage life of The Tonight Show in the 1970s. He has sung in opera and stage musicals and has danced in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.