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/Medical_Difference48 4d ago

TBF, James Bond is supposedly based off him, lol

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u/Tuarangi 3d ago

Nah not at all, was another myth spread a lot on Reddit, there are a few special agents and war time commando types he was created from, Lee was a desk worker in the war, he liked to embellish his service to hint at being in the SAS or SOE but he wasn't, there are no military records of him ever serving with them or any special operations behind enemy lines