Robert Downey Jr. was nominated to Oscar in 1992, at the age of 27, he didn't win though. There was a joke about him in Simpsons in 1999, so he was already a well known name far before Iron Man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjHVQsJOlo

His life is more like an example of how people can get back to the top after years of heavy drug abuse.

Martha Stewart wrote her first book at the age of 42, I would count that as the start of her career.

This chart is a bit confusing, sometimes it lists when people started a later flourishing business, sometime when they were at the top.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 7 points 2 months ago

Martha was a model 2 decades before she wrote a book.

[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's not helpful. Almost all these people were working towards their big thing many, many years earlier.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Absolutely my thought when I saw that.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't expect to do anything cool if you're 46 tho

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Raising children or caring for the elderly is really more impressive than writing recipe books or pretending to be a billionaire arms dealer

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Not everyone is a motivated genius. Got to work with what you've got.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago

I wrote a calculator in 6502 assembly one time. So I'm okay life achievement wise.