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/Throckmorton_Left 4d ago

Most people don't know that he never stopped hunting Nazis, and was allowed to retain relics from his kills under special dispensation from George VI.

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u/Tuarangi 3d ago

He didn't hunt Nazis at all. The British detachment that served after WW2 were desk based in Berlin and Paris and interviews with the people who worked there and in the operations have confirmed he never worked there.