Volodymyr Zelensky is currently a figure on the top of the world's limelight
He wasn't what people were supposed to be, just a simple comedian.
The 44-year-old has won a large number of fans with his charm as the public was "moved" by his video speech.
For much of the 2019 campaign, he was seen as a dark horse, but as Ukrainians tried to express their dissatisfaction with corruption at the highest levels of the country's government, he began to take a lead over his rivals.
Zelensky is a trained lawyer who crowdfunded his campaign and quickly became a social media star.
He ended up overwhelmingly winning the presidential campaign, with 74 percent of the vote, and his local and global approval ratings for dealing with Putin's invasion soared.
Zelenskiy was born in Kryvyi Rih, a large city in central Ukraine, 260 miles south of Kiev, to Jewish parents.
His father was a professor and computer scientist at a local university, and his mother was an engineer.
When Zelenskiy was a child, the family lived in Erdeente, Mongolia's second-largest city, for four years before returning to Ukraine.
He had wanted to move to Israel to study after passing his exams, but his father wouldn't let him go, but instead sent him to the Kriverih School of Economics to study law.
At the age of 17 he began comedy and joined the Russian show KVN, winning the major league of KVN in 1997.
He then visited former Soviet states, including Russia.
He then married screenwriter Olena Zelenska and had two children, and he ventured into film and television, starring in Big City Love, the sequel, and Office Romance: Our Time, where he also voiced Paddington Bear and spent some time in the Ukrainian version of Dances with the Stars.
But he began to show interest in politics in 2014, when Ukraine's ministry of culture said it would ban Russian artists from entering the country. (This is ironic)
In 2015, he played the president of the country in the TV series Servant of the People, which also attacked the corruption of the leadership.
In December 2021, Zelenskiy inspected the Ukrainian military's front-line positions in Donbass, Ukraine
Like his role as servant of the people, he took part in an anti-corruption campaign and defeated the pro-Russian incumbent president with 74 percent of the vote.
Poroshenko has lost to the TV star in all parts of the country, including in the West, where he has traditionally received strong support.
It was an extraordinary outcome for a frustrated voter who had experienced poverty, corruption and a five-year war.
At his campaign headquarters, when the exit polls came out, Zelensky said: "I will never let you down."
"Although I have not officially become president yet, as a citizen of Ukraine, I can tell all post-Soviet countries: 'Look at us!' Anything is possible! '
While the real-life scenarios faced by Zelenskiy and the Ukrainian people are far more grim and appalling than the series' comedies, there are clear similarities with the real-world situation.