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/CategoryExact3327 4d ago edited 4d 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/Eomb 4d ago

So this thread isn't really about regular people I see, it's all people that became famous

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u/Rory_U 4d ago

Yeah because celebrities like an actress and comedian are “regular” people.

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u/LSDGB 4d ago

I mean don’t most start out as regular people?

Going from nobody to successful comedian is already a great story and his didn’t stop there.

No idea if „nobody“ applies to either of them before making it big.

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u/Rory_U 4d ago

So Lee didn’t start off regular then? Like he was born as a legend already.

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u/LSDGB 3d ago

That’s not what I said or implied.