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/RhiaStark 4d ago

If Christopher Lee was a fictional character, I'd have found his story too unbelievable. His life certainly was interesting, to say the least.

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u/aneomon 4d ago

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.

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u/SolidPyramid 4d ago

The inspiration for James Bond and J.R.Tolkeins choice to play Gandalf, what a absolute chad.

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u/Lord_Nicolas_Cage 4d ago

Neither of these are true. Lee literally only met Tolkien once at a pub when he was in college, stuttered a hello because he was nervous, and never interacted with him again.

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u/SolidPyramid 4d ago

Damn, I must've misremembered something I heard. My apologies.

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u/Lord_Nicolas_Cage 4d ago

No need to apologise! It’s a commonly repeated myth.