20 Actors Who Had To Wait DECADES Before Hitting Big
4. Robert Forster
Unlike many actors on this list, the late, great Robert Forster wasn't a total unknown before finally making a name for himself, carving out quite the respectable career as a character actor and occasional leading man throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
But more mainstream recognition continually evaded him, and so during the '80s and '90s he largely worked on smaller lower-budget film and TV projects.
Yet everything changed in 1997 when Forster, at the age of 56, starred in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown as bail bondsman Max Cherry, for which he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.
Forster already had three decades of acting under his belt by this point, but for the remaining 20-plus years of his life and career, he remained an ever-sought after actor across both film and TV, perhaps most notably with his small but pivotal role in Breaking Bad and its sequel film El Camino.