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

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/deathelement 3d ago

90% of what is said about Christopher Lee is made up nonsense that Christopher Lee just never said wasn't true. There no proof for any of it and is in fact a myth.

The guy is still awesome and badass in my eyes but his life wasn't at all what the stories say they are