Stacy Keibler 42 American actress, TV host and retired wrestler. Olga Kurylenko 42 Ukrainian-French actress and model. Jason Momoa 42 American actor. Bipasha Basu 42 Indian model and actress. Katie Holmes 42 American actress. Ne-Yo 42 American singer, producer and dancer. Cooper Barnes 42 English actor. Manny Pacquiao 42 Filipino boxer and politician. Joe Gorga 42 American reality star. Rosario Dawson 42 American actress. Mindy Kaling 42 American actress and producer.
Cote de Pablo 42 Chilean actress. Nadine Velazquez 42 American actress and model. Flo Rida 42 American rapper. Bam Margera 42 American skateboarder and director.
Morena Baccarin 42 Brazilian-American actress. Nicolas Anelka 42 French footballer. Lamar Odom 42 American basketball player. Coco Austin 42 American model and actress. Chris Pratt 42 American actor. Rose Byrne 42 Australian actress.
Jennifer Morrison 42 American actress and model. Metta World Peace 42 American basketball player. Maggie Q 42 American actress and model. Tatyana Ali 42 American actress and singer. Tom Ellis 42 Welsh actor. The series ran for 11 years. For more celebrity trivia sent right to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter. Yes, it feels like Betty White started to bless the world with her comedic chops since before any of us can remember.
But the queen of TV didn't get started until she was in her 40s. But while theater fans were familiar with his work, he wouldn't become a household name until he joined the cast of the Cheers spinoff Frasier in , taking on the role of Frasier's dad, Martin Crane, when he was 53 years old.
Jane Lynch was 43 when she landed her first big gig in Christopher Guest 's mockumentary Best in Show, and later gained even more fame after a side-splitting role in The Year-Old Virgin at the age of Regis Philbin 's career didn't exactly hit the ground running. It wasn't until , when he was 57 years old, that Live!
With Regis and Kathie Lee premiered and made him a household name. But in , when she was 55, she joined The View , which she's co-hosted on-and-off ever since. Sir Patrick Stewart kicked off his career on the British stage circuit. Dame Judi Dench also became famous on the stage in England earlier in her career.
But she didn't cross the pond and become a Hollywood name until she played M in the James Bond film GoldenEye at age Three years later, she scored an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love. Though Tommy Lee Jones picked up minor roles throughout the '70s and '80s, it was his turn in 's The Fugitive— for which he received an Oscar nomination—that really ushered him into stardom. He was 47 at the time. After minor appearances on the big and small screens in the early s—on The Parkers and in The Fighting Temptations — NeNe Leakes gained national fame at 41, thanks to the reality series The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
She continues to be an all-time Housewives fan-favorite. But even that breakout role didn't come about until he was In , she was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. In the '50s, the late Rodney Dangerfield worked as an aluminum siding salesman. Then, in , he gave stand-up a shot.
After booking a slot on an episode of The Ed Sullivan Show , he became a sensation at the age of 46; over the following four years, he made more than a dozen appearances on the program, and then went on to film.
Her biggest role, however—as Samantha Jones, on Sex in the City —didn't come about until , when she was 42 years old. He was 41 at the time. I Love Lucy , the show that cemented Lucille Ball as comedy royalty, didn't start airing until Ball turned Of course, it kicked off an impressive screen career—including the shows Here's Lucy , Life with Lucy , and The Lucy Show —that spanned four decades. It didn't hit theaters until he was Prior to booking the role of Dr. Rumack, Nielsen was mostly known as a serious, dramatic actor.
After decades of success on the stages of London's West End, Helen Mirren finally made it across the pond to star on Broadway in , at the ripe age of Eventually, she crossed over to the big screen with roles in 's Gosford Park and 's Calendar Girls , both of which came about when she was in her late 50s.
Ang Lee has been directing films since the early '90s, but his breakout hit— Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon —didn't hit the silver screen until he was in his 40s. Kathryn Bigelow will go down in the history books as the first woman to win an Academy Award for directing, with the critically acclaimed war drama The Hurt Locker. Though she was by no means new to Hollywood—she'd already directed action flicks like Blue Steel and Point Break — Hurt Locker , which Bigelow started directing at age 57, officially launched her into the realm of A-list filmmakers.
Though he was well known in England before American Idol , producer personality Simon Cowell gained international fame thanks to the harsh persona he took on as a judge on the reality show when he was The late Bea Arthur found success on Broadway early in her career, including a Tony-winning role in the musical Mame when she was She was so beloved by audiences that she got her own sitcom, Maude , just as she turned 50 years old.
She found even more success with her next sitcom, The Golden Girls. Murray Abraham is one of those perennial actors who feels like he's been around forever.
Indeed, Abraham has been landing roles on stage and screen since the '70s. But it wasn't until he was 45 that he landed the role of composer Antonio Salieri in the cinematic masterpiece Amadeus , and his life changed forever. The performance earned him critical acclaim, an Academy Award, and a film career that continues to this day. The Mexico-born actor—whose own talent agent once referred to him as "a major name that never got a major role"—won the star-turning gig when he was 57, long past typical leading male age.
But her career didn't officially start until she turned 42, when she reportedly started pursuing her dream of acting after going through a divorce. In , Morgan Freeman had his major breakout role in Street Smart , for which he scored an Oscar nomination. He was 50 at the time. Now in his 80s, Freeman is among the top earners in Hollywood of all time, ranking at No.
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