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Audrey Hepburn

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Audrey Hepburn - Actress

Occupation: Actress Birth Name: Audrey Kathleen Ruston Birth Date: 05/04/1929 Birth Place: Brussels, Belgium Height: 5' 7" Sex: F Nationality: Belgian Father: Joseph Anthony Ruston Mother: Ella van Heemstra Spouse: Mel Ferrer (actor, Sept 25, 1954 - Dec 5, 1968), Dr. Andrea Dott Relation: Albert Finney (actor), William Holden (actor), Ben Gazzara (actor), James Hanson (engaged), Robert Wolders (actor, 1980-1993) Claim Fame: As Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961)

Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 - January 20, 1993) was a Belgian-born actress. Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Brussels she was the daughter of Joseph Anthony Ruston, a British banker, and Baroness Ella van Heemstra, a Dutch aristocrat descended from French and English kings. Her father appended the name Hepburn to his surname, and Audrey became Audrey Hepburn -Ruston at the same time. She had two half-brothers, Alexander, and Ian Quarles van Ufford, by her mother's first marriage to a Dutch nobleman.
After the war, Hepburn and her mother moved to London where she studied ballet, worked as a model, and in 1951 began acting in films, mostly in minor or supporting roles; her first major performance was in the 1951 film The Secret People. After being chosen to play the lead character in the Broadway play Gigi (opened on November 24, 1951), and after a successful six-month run in New York, she was offered a starring role in the Hollywood motion picture Roman Holiday, co-starring Gregory Peck. For her performance in this movie she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and over her illustrious career she would be nominated for best actress four more times. In the film Funny Face, Hepburn's mother appeared as the patron of a sidewalk caf?. Her performance as Holly Golightly in 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's resulted in the creation of one of the most iconic characters in 20th Century American cinema. Having become one of Hollywood's most popular box-office attractions, Hepburn co-starred with other major actors
such as Fred Astaire, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, Peter O'Toole, and Sean Connery.
From 1967 onward, after fifteen highly successful years in film, Hepburn acted only occasionally and her last role was filmed in 1988 just before she was appointed a special ambassador to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Grateful for her own good fortune after being a victim of Nazi atrocities as a child, she dedicated the remainder of her life to helping impoverished children in the world's poorest nations. In 1992, President George Bush presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work with UNICEF. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded her The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her contribution to humanity, and her son accepted the award shortly after her death. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1652 Vine Street.
Hepburn married twice, to actor Mel Ferrer and to Italian doctor Andrea Dotti, and had two sons. At the time of her death she was the companion of Robert Wolders, a Dutch actor who was the widower of film star Merle Oberon. Hepburn died of colon cancer on January 20, 1993, in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland at the age of 63, and was interred there.

Filmography:

Year	Name	Star	Genre	Other
1989	Always	Hap	MV
1987	Love Among Thieves	Baroness Caroline DuLac	TM
1979	Bloodline	Elizabeth Roffe	MV	aka Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline
1976	Robin and Marian	Lady Marian	MV
1967	Wait Until Dark	Susy Hendrix	MV
1966	How to Steal a Million	Nicole Bonnet	MV	aka How to Steal a Million Dollars and Live Happily Ever After
1964	Paris - When It Sizzles	Gabrielle Simpson	MV	aka Together in Paris
1964	My Fair Lady	Eliza Doolittle	MV
1963	Charade	Regina 'Reggie' Lampert	MV
1960	The Unforgiven	Rachel Zachary	MV
1959	Green Mansions	Rima	MV
1957	Producers' Showcase	Marie Vetsera	TV
1957	Love in the Afternoon	Ariane Chavasse	MV
1957	Funny Face	Jo Stockton	MV
1956	War and Peace	Natasha Rostov	MV	aka Guerra e pace (Italy)
1954	Sabrina	Sabrina Fairchild	MV	aka Sabrina Fair
1953	Roman Holiday	Princess Ann	MV
1952	CBS Television Workshop - Rainy Day in Paradise Junction		TV
1952	The Secret People	Nora	MV	aka Secret People
1952	Nous irons ? Monte Carlo	Melissa Walter	MV	aka We Will All Go to Monte Carlo
1951	Monte Carlo Baby	Linda Farrel	MV	aka We Go to Monte Carlo
1951	Young Wives' Tale	Eve Lester	MV
1951	The Lavender Hill Mob	Chiquita	MV
1951	One Wild Oat	Hotel receptionist	MV
1951	Laughter in Paradise	Cigarette girl	MV

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