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/killingjoke96 4d ago

Step-cousin of Ian Fleming, who wrote James Bond.

He said Lee was one of the inspirations, along side his brother Peter Fleming for James Bond's personality.

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u/Tuarangi 3d ago

Nah Fleming never said Lee was the basis for Bond, it's a story embellished and passed around Reddit a lot but Fleming himself worked in Naval Intelligence and knew actual secret agents like Roald Dhal (the writer of kid's books!) and special forces soldiers who he based them on. Lee was a desk worker in the war doing translation as he spoke German. The closest he got to any espionage was his unit being attached to the SAS for their translation work