Is Octavia Spencer the GOAT late bloomer

[Jalether]

I know she's being acting since 96 but she didn't really get a big break till hidden figures
and ma just took her to another level.

Who are other notable late bloomers in hollywood.

 

[skylove4]

Morgan freeman, Sam Jackson, tiffany haddish and the woman from how to get away with murder & Antwan Fisher.

 

[get these nets]

Samuel L. Jackson

and of course Easy Reader from Electric Company aka Morgan Freeman

 

[Coco Loco]

Yeah she’s one of them but her breakout role was in The Help. She won an Oscar for it. No matter what she’s in she kills it. I know when I see her name it’s gonna be a relatively good movie

 

[EndDomination]

I think her big break actually came from The Maid and then Fruitvale Station a year later, but yeah - her popularity finally coming up in the early 2010s is impressive.

 

[get these nets]

Comedian JB Smoove

 

[Jalether]

Yeah she’s one of them but her breakout role was in The Help. She won an Oscar for it. No matter what she’s in she kills it. I know when I see her name it’s gonna be a relatively good movie

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I can't believe I missed that

 

[humminbird]

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I can't believe I missed that

Viola Davis too

 

[Morethan1]

Raw no regret

This is not a shock response

She's beautiful to me

 

[JuvenileHell]

Samuel L Jackson by a HUGE margin

Edit: Either Sam L Jackson or Morgan Freeman

 

[Jalether]

Samuel L jackson seems to be the consensus GOAT late bloomer and I have to agree

What was his breakthrough movie though

It can't be coming to America as that was only a cameo role

 

[get these nets]

Samuel L jackson seems to be the consensus GOAT late bloomer and I have to agree

What was his breakthrough movie though

It can't be coming to America as that was only a cameo role

Gator in Jungle Fever

 

[tuckgod]

Raw no regret

This is not a shock response

She's beautiful to me

You know she got that catchers mitt too

 

[Remote]

Geoffrey Rush has been acting since the 1980s but I don't think he got any widespread recognition until he did Les Miserables in 1998. By that time he was 47 years old.
By the time he did Pirates of the Caribbean, he was 52

 

[Remote]

I would also add Mads Mikkelsen to this list.
He didn't become well known until Casino Royale...by which time he was 40 or 41. If I remember correctly, I think he was a dancer before he got into acting.

BTW, if you're into emotional dramas, "After The Wedding" (2006) is a good Danish movie.