AUDREY

HEPBURN
(Audrey Kathleen Ruston)

Audrey Hepburn is one

of the highest paid
actresses in British
and American films of
its time, a fashion
model and
humanitarian activist.

Audrey Kathleen
van Heemstra
Ruston was born
in Brussels in
1929.

Audrey's father
often travelled for
work abroad, and
their infant years
she spent in travel
between London
and Brussels,
Arnhem and The
Hague.

Audrey has had two

older half-brothers Alexander and Ian, who
were older by eight and
four years

Audrey was received an

English boarding school in
five years. From 1939 and
after the war she studied
ballet in
Arnhem(Netherlands) with
Sonia Gaskell in
Amsterdam. In 1948 she
moved to London where
she continued studying
ballet and performed as a
chorus girl in various West
End musical theatre
productions.

She appeared for the first

time on film, as an air
stewardess in an
educational travel film
made by Charles van der
Linden and Henry
Josephson, Dutch in Seven
Lessons

After appearing in several British films

and starring in the Broadway play Gigi
in 1951, Hepburn gained instant
Hollywood stardom for playing the
Academy Award-winning lead role in
Roman Holiday (1953). which
received the awards "Oscar", "Golden
Globe" and the BAFTA.

Hepburn with her first and

only competitive Academy

In 1954, Audrey
returned to the
theater stage as a
mermaid in the play
"Ondine", where her
partner was Mel
Ferrer, whom she
married in the same
year and later gave
the birth to a son,
Sean.

Hepburn in the
famous opening
scene of Breakfast at
Tiffany's

Three months after the birth of her son,

Sean, in 1960, Hepburn began to work
on Blake Edwards' Breakfast at Tiffany's
(1961), a film very loosely based on the
Truman Capotes novella.

Audrey and Mel Ferrer

divorced in November 1968.
A year later, she married
Italian psychiatrist Dr.
Andrea Dotti, bore her
second son Luke in 1970.
Audrey moved away from
the work in the movies
quietly and without fuss .
The whole family moved to
Italy. Audrey and Dr. Andrea

Hepburn's last role in

the movie, the so-called
cameo appearance, was
the role of an angel in
Steven Spielberg's
"Always", filmed in 1989.

Hepburn was appointed

Goodwill Ambassador of
UNICEF. Then-United States
president George H. W. Bush
presented her with the
Presidential Medal of Freedom
in recognition of her work with
UNICEF, and the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences posthumously
awarded her the Jean Hersholt
Humanitarian Award for her
contribution to humanity, with
her son accepting on her
behalf. Grateful for her own
good fortune after enduring
the German occupation as a
child, she dedicated the
remainder of her life to helping
impoverished children in the
poorest nations.

Audrey
travelied .A trip to
Somalia and
Kenya was last for
her. Audrey
Hepburn died on
January 20, 1993
at the age of 63
years

Audrey Hepburn star on

Hollywood Boulevard in
Los Angeles.

FILMS THAT STARRED

AUDREY
1948 Nederlands in 7 Lessen
1951 Laughter in Paradise
1951 One Wild Oat
1951 The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 Monte Carlo Baby
1951 Young Wives Tale
1952 The Secret People
1953 Roman Holiday
1954 Sabrina
1956 War and Peace Natasha
Rostov.
1957 Funny Face
1957 Love in the Afternoon
1959 Green Mansions
1959
The
Story
1960
TheNuns
Unforgiven

1961 Breakfast at Tiffanys

1961 The Childrens Hour
1963 Charade
1964 Paris, When It
Sizzles
1964 My Fair Lady
1966 How to Steal a
Million
1967 Two for the Road
1967 Wait until dark
1976 Robin And
Marian
1979 Bloodline
1981 They All Laughed
1987 Love Among
Thieves
1989 Always

Hepburn is the
embodiment of natural
beauty.
She had a wonderful
charm, inner charm that
radiated in her smile - so
said about it all.

Audrey is still considered a beauty queen