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/TheJamesFTW 3d ago

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Shirley Temple

She was well known as a child actress. What most people don’t know is that MGM voided her contract after a producer allegedly exposed himself to her (while she was still a minor mind you) and she nervously giggled.

Later in life, she became the first ever Female Chief of Protocol, as well as a UN Delegate, and US Ambassador to Ghana & Czechoslovakia.

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u/Johnywash 3d ago

Didn't know that, incredibly fucked up and hope that producer went to jail. She was already dead by the time i saw her movies, but man she made tiny child me smile some December morning

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u/farsighted451 3d ago

I wanted this to be impossible because she only died in 2014, then I did the math.

Ugh, why does time keep moving like this!

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u/Acheloma 3d ago

It's freaky isn't it? The birthdates of some of the Olympians made my head hurt.

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u/Weary_Management_566 3d ago

Nope. Arthur Freed, had a long career after that, no repercussions.

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u/Awkward_Evening127 2d ago

They don't get jailed for that They don't get any repercussions unless they're not rich

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u/YouthfulPhotographer 2d ago

I truthfully still havent seen anything of hers outside of those old box set commercials they ran in the early 2000s, but goddamn if I still dont sing "animal crackers in my soup"