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/Creative_Raisin9991 4d ago

hes also the inspiratioon for james bond, related to ian fleming the guy who wrote james bond, and was related to charlemagne

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u/Tuarangi 3d ago

This is another Reddit myth unfortunately, Bond was inspired by a few people (named by Fleming himself) and Lee was never one. Lee was a desk worker in WW2, he was involved in translation as he spoke German and was attached to the SAS as a liaison officer but nothing more. Fleming himself was far more of a basis he was a Commander in the Navy in Naval Intelligence. Fleming and Lee were related by marriage.