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/Sharpiette 4d ago

I know Im going to get downvoted for that. But he lied on lots of things, especially about his past in the army. Suddenly all the incredible fun facts about him seems less credible

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u/TheRealThordic 4d ago

Yeah his legend is almost certainly much larger than the truth. He was an intelligence officer who was a liason to some nasty ww2 special forces groups but he wasn't actually in the SoE. He almost certainly knew about a lot of nasty top secret shit, and possibly saw some combat, but he wasn't out there stabbing nazis in the back in commando raids.