late bloomer

American  

noun

1. a person whose talents or capabilities are slow to develop.

   A late bloomer, she wrote her first novel when she was almost 50.

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Example Sentences

Bohm was a late bloomer in high school, growing so fast that he required elbow surgery between his junior and senior years.

From Los Angeles Times

He was a bit of a late bloomer, let's not forget.

From BBC

A late bloomer, Pegula has taken the long road.

From Los Angeles Times

A lightly recruited prospect who didn’t play elite junior hockey and took the long road to the NHL, he is a stirring case for the late bloomer, a candidate overlooked in youth sports, amok in their emphasis on winning and shaking parents down for money.

From The Wall Street Journal

Duvall was sort of a late bloomer in Hollywood -- he was already 31 when he delivered his breakout performance as the mysterious recluse Boo Radley in the 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird."

From Barron's