Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Unconventional Path To Presidency

Zelenskyy played president as a character on a TV show before ousting Petro Poroshenko and actually becoming Ukraine's president in 2019.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a new star for the international community. But for Ukrainians, their made-on-TV president has always been front-and-center. 

"When I met him, he was so full of energy and full of ideas all the time," said former business partner Nicola Söderlund.

A lawyer by training and comic by trade, Zelenskyy carved out his place in Ukrainian entertainment in the early 2000s competing in comedy contests and producing TV shows before he was 30.