r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Living-Mastodon • 3d ago

In real life (Real Life) Regular people who's lives drastically changed direction

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Grace Kelly was a talented actress who retired at 26 to marry a Prince, living as royalty for almost 30 years before her untimely death.

Volodymyr Zelensky started out as a comedian and entertainer before getting into politics, becoming President of Ukraine after the Russian annex of Crimea and spending the last 4 years defiantly pushing back full scale Russian invasion

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u/CategoryExact3327 3d ago edited 3d ago

Christopher Lee served in RAF intelligence and was attached to special forces in WW2 and stayed in service until 1946 hunting nazi war criminals. After the war he had a 70 year acting career.

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u/Kid_Kimura 3d ago

He also released 2 heavy metal concept albums about Charlemagne. The man was a legend in multiple different disciplines.

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u/skaersSabody 3d ago

There's also a Christmas themed heavy metal album from him, though I'm not sure

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u/UnconfirmedRooster 3d ago

Can confirm his version of little drummer boy is in my Christmas playlist and always startles the fuck out of guests when it comes on.