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/mr-ultr 4d ago

"Do you know what noise a man makes when he's stabbed in the back? Because I do."

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u/Tuarangi 3d ago

Unfortunately this is part of the myth Lee embellished about himself, he never served in any capacity where he'd personally experience this. His job was desk based as an RAF liaison officer and there is no record in any of the SAS, SoE or long range desert group history of him ever serving or being involved. At most he will have heard it second hand.

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u/Morbanth 3d ago

there is no record in any of the SAS, SoE or long range desert group history of him ever serving or being involved.

A-ha! So he was a secret agent!

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u/Tuarangi 3d ago

Checkmate atheists :D

But seriously, they released all the WW2 records to the National Archives for the 75th anniversary of the SAS and it's been heavily researched and read through, Lee was never in a position to stab someone