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Biography of Audrey Hepburn

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Actress, humanitarian. Born Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston in Brussels, Belgium, on May 4, 1929. Her father, Joseph Anthony Hepburn-Ruston, was an English banker, and her mother, Ella Hepburn-Ruston, was a Dutch baroness. Hepburn grew up in England, but moved to the Netherlands after her parents separated. In 1948, she appeared in her first film, Nederland in Lessen , billed as Edda Hepburn. Following the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940, Hepburn was consequently unable to leave the country until 1948, when she returned to London to study ballet on a scholarship at Arnhem Conservatory, at which time she began using the professional name of Audrey Hepburn. In 1949, she made her London stage debut in the chorus of High Button Shoes. With her gamine-like features and graceful beauty, she was hand-picked by Colette herself to star in the1951 Broadway production of Gigi, which garnered enormous critical acclaim. From 1951-52, she made a string of unremarkable films, while slowly gaining recognition with her solid character portrayals despite such a seemingly delicate demeanor. In 1953, she was cast as a runaway princess wooed by an international news journalist, played by Gregory Peck, in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday. Her beguiling performance landed her a Best Actress Oscar; from then on, Hepburn became an international star and the very definition of elegant chic. Hepburn earned another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in Billy Wilderï¿½s romantic comedy Sabrina , costarring Humphrey Bogart and William Holden. That year she returned to New York where she starred in Broadwayï¿½s Ondine and received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Drama. In 1957, she appeared in the musical Funny Face with Fred Astaire, and in Wilder's romantic comedy Love in the Afternoon with Gary Cooper. In 1959, she received an Oscar nomination, the New York Film Critics Circle Award, and the British Film Academy Award for Best Actress for her leading role in the critically acclaimed drama The Nunï¿½s Story. Hepburn earned another Oscar nomination for her now-iconic performance as Holly Golightly in Blake Edwardï¿½s romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's , costarring George Peppard. That year she starred with Shirley MacLaine in The Childrenï¿½s Hour, a controversial drama that became one of Hollywoodï¿½s earliest treatments on the subject of lesbianism. She received a British Academy Award for Best Actress for the romantic mystery Charade , costarring Cary Grant and Walter Matthau. Also in 1963, she reteamed with her Sabrina costar William Holden for Parisï¿½When It Sizzles. But it was her performance as Eliza Doolittle in 1964ï¿½s My Fair Lady that Hepburn hit on the most lucrative film of her career, as well as earning yet again Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominations. She played a blind woman in Terence Youngï¿½s thriller Wait Until Dark , earning a fifth Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. After a nine-year absence, she returned to film in the romantic adventure Robin and Marian with Sean Connery, Richard Harris, and Ian Holm. She appeared in several more film productions, including her final role playing the angel Hap in Steven Spielberg's Always . A long-time activist for charitable causes, in 1988, Hepburn was named the official spokesperson for the United Nations Children's Fund . Among numerous other honors, in 1990, she was awarded the Cecil B DeMille Award, as well as the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992. That same year she received the George Eastman Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 1993, she was presented with the Council of Fashion Designers of America Award. Posthumous awards included the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her work with UNICEF , a Grammy for Best Spoken Album for Children for Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales , and the Women in Film Crystal Award . Hepburnï¿½along with John Gielgud, Helen Hayes and Rita Morenoï¿½was one of only four performers to have won all of the four major entertainment awards . In 1954, she married actor Mel Ferrer, and together they had a son, Sean, in 1960, before divorcing in1968. In 1969, she married psychiatrist Andrea Dotti, with whom she had a son, Luca, in 1970. Hepburn and Dotti were also divorced, and she later married Dutch actor Robert Wolders. In 1992, Hepburn was diagnosed with colon cancer, for which she underwent surgery in Los Angeles; however, she died from the disease on January 20, 1993 in Tolochenaz, Switzerland.

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