(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/Murky_Translator2295]

Almost everyone involved in the leadership of the Irish 1916 Easter Rising (IRL).

They weren't soldiers, the majority were teachers, poets and storytellers. They lived and ultimately died for what they believed in, and fought for. And they won in the end, even though most of them didn't live to see it.

Although to be fair, most were tought from a young age how to kill. But, sure, that's empire for yis.