top actors who started late
Liz Smith started acting at around the age of 50 (in the 1970s) and it's only in the last ten years that she's found national success and acknowledgement.Goes to show that persistence pays off. Hope this helps.hich successful actors started acting late? Ok, so like...Robert Pattinson-kinda late, 15, in plays. It's not actually late, but if you look at all the other actors-seems late.
Can you name the actors who started in their mid-to-late 20s?#1Posted: 5/4/13 at 4:32pm. It seems like all of the famous theater actors started acting when they were teenagers or younger. believe she was already 40 when she booked Best in Show.). In terms of the much rarer actually-had-another-career-and-started-late, Ken Jeong comes to mind. He practiced Internal Medicine before winning a Stand-Up contest when he was 28, and booked his first film role ten years later.
1 Harrison Ford-He was 31 when he first had a somewhat prominent role. 2  The film was American Graffiti. 3  He true breakout wasn't until Star Wars, when he was 35.4  As most know, just before being cast as Han Solo, he was moving back to his carpenter roots. The role of Han Solo eventually went to him. 2  Viggo Mortensen-He had some bit roles in his late 20s (ironically had a bit part in Harrison Ford's Witness in 1985, when he was 27). 3  His more prominent supporting role came in 1990 in Young Guns II, when he was already 33.
1 He took on a co-starring role in G.I. Jane via 1997, when he was 39. 2  But it wasn't really until 2001, when he sky-rocketed to fame in the first Lord of the Rings movie, when he was 43. 3  Danny Glover-He had some supporting breakout roles in 1985 with Witness and The Color Purple, when he was 41. The role of Han Solo eventually went to him. 2  Viggo Mortensen-He had some bit roles in his late 20s (ironically had a bit part in Harrison Ford's Witness in 1985, when he was 27). 3  His more prominent supporting role came in 1990 in Young Guns II, when he was already 33.