Regardless of age (9 photos) Bashny.Net

It happens that catches the glory of a man almost at the threshold of the kindergarten, but early popularity was not promises sparkling career (sorry, Britney). Other well known comes to retirement age and ensure eternal life in art. For example, the guys from the list below, we know and love, when he was well over thirty, and some - and fifty. Curious to see what they did in their youth and how to look.




Morgan Freeman.
The youngest of five children, a hairdresser, Freeman during his school years differed love for the stage. But the road to success was long: only in the 70s, when the actor was already thirty, he landed the role that made him famous in the United States - in the children's television show Electric Company.
Freeman's finest hour came when, in 1992, the screens out Clint Eastwood western "Unforgiven." Live actor in Russia, he was about to retire: the film came when Freeman was 55. Who is the actor in his seventies, he was actively removed and, despite its age, continues to give cause for the papers gossip. In the past year it came to that Freeman, which account for the four official marriage, was suspected of an affair with his own 26-year-old granddaughter (though not native, and from his first wife).





Gene Hackman.
Popular American actor and jump on Freeman won an Oscar for his role as Billy the Kid in "Unforgiven." In a large collection of awards Hackman has another prize Academy Award - for the film "The French Connection" and lacking "Golden Globe" award and BAFTA.
However, the way Hackman in the movie also started late. The 16 Hackman dropped out of school and take credit for a couple of years off to serve in the Marines, and then had to learn journalism and TV production. The acting school in Pasadena, California Hackman did almost thirty, along with Dustin Hoffman, and both of them are considered the least promising students of the course.
In recent years, Hackman, who is now 80, became interested in the writer's craft and published several novels, which account for the duration of the war between North and South and the Great Depression.





Michael Douglas.
Although famous father, Michael had to try to get to the screen. The first truly successful role went to Michael in the series "The Streets of San Francisco". Over time, Douglas projects became more incendiary: in 1992, when the actor was already 48, he played in "Basic Instinct».
In 2010, it became known that the actor cancer of the larynx. However, in the spring of this year in the main competition of the Cannes film was "Behind the Candelabra" where Douglas played the legendary American entertainer, pianist Liberace and gay. And soon the screens will comedy "Last Vegas", which became partners Douglas Freeman and Robert De Niro.



Clint Eastwood.
Unlike colleagues Eastwood decided quite early to the profession and do the chosen path is not folded. However, the star of Spaghetti Western managed to surprise all the success as a filmmaker. Despite the fact that all the 30-odd films made Eastwood, were commercially successful, the main film awards were marked ones he took off after sixty. In 2005, Eastwood received another Oscar - for "Million Dollar Baby" and thus became the oldest director to win this award.





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Source: bigpicture.ru