Real-life heroes: celebrities who've saved lives

On December 30, 2019, DiCaprio was on board a boat that located a Frenchman who had been treading water for 11 hours before he was located, this near the island of St. Barts. The man had fallen off a cruise ship. Apparently the actor immediately agreed to having the vessel he was on diverted in order for the crew to save the man.

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Danny Trejo - On August 7, 2019, the 'Machete' actor rescued a baby trapped in a car seat in an overturned vehicle in Los Angeles. Two vehicles had crashed, causing the rollover. With the help of a bystander, Trejo was able to get the baby out of the car seat, away from the vehicle, and ultimately saved the day.

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Ken Jeong - You might not know this, but 'The Hangover' star is a licensed medical doctor. When a fan had a seizure during his stand-up show in Phoenix, Jeong rushed to help her and stayed with her until she recovered.

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Kate Winslet - Winslet was staying at the Caribbean mansion of her friend Sir Richard Branson during Hurricane Irene in 2011. After a lightning bolt hit the house and caused a fire, she was able to carry Branson's 90-year-old mother to safety.

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Harrison Ford - The actor has played the hero in real life several times. In 2017, he rescued a woman from a car accident. In 2001, he used his pilot skills to track down a 13-year-old Boy Scout who got lost in Yellowstone National Park. A year earlier, he had already saved the lives of two hikers suffering from altitude sickness in Wyoming.

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Jamie Foxx - In 2016, Foxx proved he was a real-life superhero when he pulled a man out of a burning car. The victim had lost control and crashed into a drainage ditch, causing the car to roll several times and burst into flames.

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Tom Cruise - It really shouldn't be a surprise that Tom Cruise is both a hero on and off screen. When he witnessed a hit-and-run in 1996, but couldn't find the perpetrator, the actor paid for the victim's thousand-dollar emergency room bill.

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Clint Eastwood - At a PGA Tour party in 2014, Eastwood performed the Heimlich maneuver on a fellow guest who was choking on a piece of cheese, saving the man's life.

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Jennifer Lawrence - The Oscar-winning actress once had to call 911 after she spotted a girl who had collapsed near her house. She helped the young woman until medical assistance arrived.

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Dustin Hoffman - In 2012, Hoffman helped a jogger who collapsed in London's Hyde Park. The actor called paramedics, who managed to save the man's life.

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Simon Cowell - As surprising as it seems, Simon Cowell's blatant criticism has saved someone's life. He noticed that 'X Factor' contestant Jacqui Gray had an unusually "raspy" voice. Gray later went to the doctor and found out she had a lung disease.

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Sean Penn - Penn has been actively involved in recovery efforts in Haiti since a destructive earthquake hit the country in 2010. He has started organizations to help affected Haitians, and spent long periods of time there.

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Mila Kunis - The actress once saved the life of a man who was working on her house when he started seizing. She called the paramedics and stayed with him until help arrived.

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Prince Harry - Prince Harry knows a thing or two from his time in the army. He had to use the skills he learned when a rival player at a polo match collided with other riders and was knocked unconscious by his horse. The Prince had to roll him to a recovery position until he came back to consciousness.

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Ryan Gosling - In 2011, Gosling was the good Samaritan when he broke up a nasty fight in the streets of New York. Later, the actor said he was "embarrassed" by the whole situation.

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Patrick Dempsey - The 'Grey's Anatomy' star witnessed a car crash in front of his house. He rushed to help the teen driver and stayed at the scene until paramedics arrived.

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Rihanna - RiRi has probably saved countless lives by using her social media platforms to share the stories of children in need of bone marrow transplants, including a five-year-old girl from New York City.

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Demi Moore - In 2009, the star contacted police after a fan sent her a Twitter message in which she expressed suicidal thoughts. They were able to locate the girl's house, and took her in for a psych evaluation.

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Mark Harmon - Back in the late '90s, the 'NCIS' actor rescued two boys who were involved in a car crash in front of his house by breaking the burning car's window with a sledge hammer and pulling them out to safety.

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T.I. - The rapper once helped Creed front man Scott Stapp recover after he jumped over a hotel balcony in Miami. Then in 2010, he joined forces with Atlanta's police to convince a man who was threatening to jump off a building to step back from the ledge.

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Sofía Vergara - The 'Modern Family' star rushed to help a woman who collapsed outside a Las Vegas night club on New Year's Day in 2012. She checked the woman's pulse and waited until paramedics arrived.

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Kelly Slater - The surfer has had his fair share of life-threatening situations, which is probably why he knew what to do when he saw that a rogue wave had swept a woman and her son in Oahu, Hawaii. He saved not one, but two lives that day!

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Ryan Kwanten - The 'True Blood' star saved a man's life when he saw him covered in blood on a Hollywood street. Kwanten helped move the man and stayed at the scene until medical assistance arrived.

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Luke Wilson - In 2018, the actor was involved in a three-car accident in Los Angeles. Wilson and another witness had to help a woman who was trapped in her BMW, but the driver of the third car died at the scene.

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Liev Schreiber - The actor rescued a woman, who got injured when she fell near his house, by riding his scooter to the scene and helping her up.

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Donnie Wahlberg - This Wahlberg brother saved a fan's life by reaching out to his Twitter followers and asking for their help finding the woman a kidney donor. The lucky fan was scheduled for a transplant soon after.

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David Lee Roth - The Van Halen musician has worked as an emergency medical technician in New York City at several points in his life, saving many lives in the process.

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Ray Davies - The Kinks singer once rushed to help a woman who was being robbed at gunpoint in New Orleans by chasing the perpetrators, this before being shot in the leg by one of the criminals. The victim escaped unharmed.

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Jack Osbourne - Osbourne and a friend helped a woman who almost drowned after having a heart attack while swimming in Hawaii. They managed to pull her out to safety and resuscitate her before the ambulance arrived.

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Garth Brooks - The country star saved his two brothers, along with another family-of-four, when he evacuated them from the Oklahoma site where a grass fire had broken out.

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John Oates -

Back in the '80s, Hall & Oates were having dinner at a restaurant when a ski-mask clad robber stormed in with a sawed-off shotgun. John Oates pushed the man through a glass door and held him until the cops arrived.

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Real-life heroes: celebrities who've saved lives

Julie Bowen recently saved an injured hiker in Utah

09/08/21 | StarsInsider

CELEBRITY Life

Some of the following Hollywood celebs play the hero on screen, but their Good Samaritan skills have also been put to use in real life.

'Modern Family' star Julie Bowen has become a real-life hero after saving an ill woman in the Utah mountains. The mother had been hiking with her husband and kids and told them to go on ahead while she rested for a minute. She was feeling light-headed and actually passed out, hitting the ground face-first and smashing her glasses. Bowen found the woman disorientated on the ground with wounds on her face.

The woman recalls hearing a familiar voice telling her she was going to be okay, but it was a while before she realized who it was! Bowen helped her get medical attention and reunite with her family. It turned out that the woman had collapsed from dehydration, and ended up with five stitches and a fractured nose. That didn't stop her from getting a quick selfie with the famous actress who helped her!

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