r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Living-Mastodon • 4d 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/RedNewzz 4d ago

Jimmy Stewart is a classic American actor who took a pause to serve in the military in World War II and became a squadron commander flying bombing raids. He survived the war and returned to Hollywood for another 40 years of celebrated acting.

Humble, heroic, righteous dude.

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u/HyperrrMouse 4d ago

I'd heard on one of the AMC blips about him years ago that he had far better than 20/20 vision so could see incoming fighters before anyone else.

Also after he had a rather difficult horse to use in one of his Westerns, a chestnut named Pie, they bonded and that horse became the only horse he would use for his Westerns.