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Name
Audrey Hepburn

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1929-05-04

Deathday
1993-01-20 (64 years old)

Place of Birth
Ixelles, Belgium

Biography

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognised as both a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.

Born in Ixelles, Brussels, to an aristocratic family, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. She studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam beginning in 1945, and with Marie Rambert in London from 1948. She began performing as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions and then had minor appearances in several films. She rose to stardom in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953) alongside Gregory Peck, for which she was the first actress to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. That year, she also won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine.

She went on to star in a number of successful films such as Sabrina (1954), in which Humphrey Bogart and William Holden compete for her affection; Funny Face (1957), a musical where she sang her own parts; the drama The Nun's Story (1959); the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); the thriller-romance Charade (1963), opposite Cary Grant; and the musical My Fair Lady (1964). In 1967 she starred in the thriller Wait Until Dark, receiving Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations. After that, she only occasionally appeared in films, one being Robin and Marian (1976) with Sean Connery. Her last recorded performances were in the 1990 documentary television series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming.

Hepburn won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. In recognition of her film career, she received BAFTA's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award. She remains one of only seventeen people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. Later in life, Hepburn devoted much of her time to UNICEF, to which she had contributed since 1954. Between 1988 and 1992, she worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America, and Asia. In December 1992, she received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. A month later, she died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland, at the age of 63.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1961 Breakfast at Tiffany's as Holly Golightly
1988 Gregory Peck: His Own Man as Self
1979 Bloodline as Elizabeth Roffe
1953 Roman Holiday as Princess Ann
1976 Robin and Marian as Lady Marian
1966 How to Steal a Million as Nicole Bonnet
1961 The Children's Hour as Karen Wright
1963 Charade as Regina Lampert
1967 Wait Until Dark as Susy Hendrix
1989 Always as Hap
1964 My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle
1964 Paris When It Sizzles as Gabrielle Simpson
1967 Two for the Road as Joanna Wallace
1954 Sabrina as Sabrina Fairchild
1956 War and Peace as Natasha Rostova
1960 The Unforgiven as Rachel Zachary
1981 They All Laughed as Angela Niotes
1959 The Nun's Story as Sister Luke
1951 The Lavender Hill Mob as Chiquita
1957 Funny Face as Jo Stockton
2017 Becoming Cary Grant as Self (archive footage)
1959 Green Mansions as Rima
1951 Monte Carlo Baby as Melissa Walter
1987 Love Among Thieves as Baroness Caroline DuLac
1951 One Wild Oat as Hotel Receptionist
1957 Love in the Afternoon as Ariane Chavasse / Thin Girl
2008 Audrey Hepburn: The Magic of Audrey as Self / Various characters (archive footage)
1951 Laughter in Paradise as Cigarette Girl
2005 Legenden: Audrey Hepburn as Self (archive footage)
1952 Secret People as Nora Brentano
2004 Audrey Hepburn - Ein Star auf der Suche nach sich selbst as Self (archive footage)
2020 Nicotine - A Drug with a Future as Self (archive footage)
1957 Mayerling as Countess Marie Vetsera
1948 Dutch in Seven Lessons as Stewardess / Girl with lute
1951 Young Wives' Tale as Eve Lester
2008 Audrey Hepburn: The Paramount Years as Self (archive footage)
1997 Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady as Self (archive footage)
2006 Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Making of a Classic as Self (archive footage)
2006 It's So Audrey! A Style Icon as Self (archive footage)
2002 Edith Head: The Paramount Years as Self (screen tests) (archive footage)
2014 Darcey Bussell: Looking for Audrey as Self / Various (archive footage)
2002 Restoring Roman Holiday as Princess Ann (archive footage)
1988 Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man as Self (archive footage)
1995 Roger Moore: A Matter of Class as Self (archive footage)
1978 Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018 Audrey Hepburn, the choice of elegance as Self (archive footage)
1986 Directed by William Wyler as Self
2019 Very Ralph as Self (archive footage)
1993 Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words as Narrator / Host
1995 More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady' as Self / Eliza Doolittle (archive footage)
1993 Audrey Hepburn: Remembered as Self (archive footage)
2020 Audrey as Self - Actress (archive footage)
1991 The Fred Astaire Songbook as Self - Host
2010 Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Natasha Rostova (archive footage)
2009 Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's as (archive footage)
2025 Femme De La Lune as Lead Vocals (archive footage)
2020 Beautiful Like a Poem as Self (archive footage)
2012 Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe as Self (archive footage)
2015 Discovering Audrey Hepburn as Self
1952 Audrey Hepburn Test as Self
2023 Godard Cinema
2009 Hollywood sul Tevere
2011 Bert Stern - Original Madman
2011 Vito as Self (archive)
1996 The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful as Self (archive footage)
1995 The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self (archive footage)

1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour ( 1 episode ) as Self
1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1993 Intimate Portrait ( 2 episodes ) as Self (archive footage)
1954 Producers' Showcase ( 1 episode ) as Marie Vetsera
1953 The Oscars ( 8 episodes ) as Self
1973 The American Film Institute Salute to ... ( 3 episodes ) as Self
1982 Wogan ( 1 episode ) as Self
1948 Bambi ( 1 episode ) as Self
1993 Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn ( 6 episodes ) as Self
1955 Was bin ich? ( 1 episode ) as Self
1971 Great Performances ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
1956 Cinépanorama ( 1 episode ) as Self
1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter / Recipient

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