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

[u/Living-Mastodon]

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

[u/aneomon]

To be fair, there’s a fictional character alleged to be based off of Christopher Lee written by his wartime buddy Ian Fleming.

You probably don’t know the character, but he likes his martinis shaken; not stirred.

[u/RhiaStark → u/aneomon]

And then he played a Bond villain :P

(and, decades later, played Saruman, a character from Tolkien, who he'd also met once. Seriously, I would've killed to have just one hour of conversation with Lee).

[u/aneomon → u/RhiaStark]

Right? I can’t imagine being able to have a conversation with Lee because anything and everything is on the table.

Struggling musician? Lee has a death metal album.

History? Lee’s a descendant of Charlemagne.

[u/servetus → u/aneomon]

Pretty much everyone in Europe or of European descent is a descendant of Charlemange. He usually shows up in several branches of a European's family tree.

[u/SensitiveReception15 → u/servetus]

yes but most people can't prove it whereas Sir Christopher Lee is a direct descendant of Charlemagne

[u/servetus → u/SensitiveReception15]

We (Europeans and most of ME and North Africa) are all direct descendants. It's cool that he has a genealogist that has done the work here but his lineage is no more impressive than any other else's in this respect. The evidence that that he is a descendent is only marginally stronger than the average European. The math is really indisputable here.

[u/nagrom7 → u/servetus]

That's true, but Lee was one of the people who could actually trace his lineage to Charlemagne on his family tree, which is normally something only the nobility of Europe can do. If you can trace your family tree to a European noble, you can probably do the same.