Audrey Hepburn was developed Audrey Kathleen Ruston on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium. She was a blue-blood including a cosmopolitan from birth. Her mother, Ella van Heemstra, was your Dutch baroness, and her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, was developed in Úzice, Bohemia, of English and Austrian descent, and worked trading.
After her parents divorced, Audrey went to London with her mother where she left for a private girls school. Later, when her mother moved in to the Netherlands, she attended private schools as well. While the woman vacationed with her mother in Arnhem, Netherlands, Hitler's army took covering the town. It was here that she fell on hard times while in the Nazi occupation. Audrey suffered from depression and malnutrition.
After a liberation, she went to a ballet school in London for a scholarship and later began a modeling career. As a unit, she was graceful and, it seemed, she had found the girl's niche in life--until the film producers came calling. In 1948, after being spotted modeling using a producer, she was signed to a bit part in a European film Dutch in Seven Lessons (1948).
Eventually, she had a speaking role in the 1951 film, Little Wives' Tale (1951) as Eve Lester. The section still wasn't much, so she headed to America to consider her luck there. Audrey gained immediate prominence in the UNITED STATES with her role in Roman Holiday (1953) around 1953. This film turned out to be a smashing being successful, and she won an Oscar as Best Actress. This gained her enormous popularity and many more plum roles.
In contrast to the "sex goddesses" of the big screen, Audrey Hepburn had a more wholesome beauty and an environment of innocence and class about her which gained her lots of devoted fans.
Roman Holiday (1953) was followed by another similarly wonderful performance while in the 1957 classic Funny Face (1957). Sabrina (1954), around 1954, for which she received another Academy nomination, and Love while in the Afternoon (1957), in 1957, also garnered rave assessments. In 1959, she received yet another nomination for her role while in the Nun's Story (1959).
Audrey reached the pinnacle of her career when she played Holly Golightly while in the delightful film Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)in 1961. In this she received another Oscar nomination. She scored commercial success again while in the espionage caper Charade (1963). One of Audrey's most radiant roles was in the fine production of My Fair Lady (1964) around 1964. Her co-star, Rex Harrison, once was asked to establish his favorite leading lady. Without hesitation, he replied, "Audrey Hepburn around 'My Fair Lady. '" After a couple of other flicks, most notably Two for the Road (1967), the woman hit pay dirt and another nomination in 1967's Wait Right until Dark (1967).
By the end of the sixties, after her divorce from actor Mel Ferrer, Audrey decided to retire while she was above. Later she married Dr. Andrea Dotti. From time to time frame, she would appear on the silver screen. One film with note was Robin and Marian (1976), with Sean Connery around 1976.
In 1988, Audrey became a special ambassador to the Un UNICEF fund helping children in Latin America and Africa, a posture she retained until 1993. She was named to People's magazine among the 50 most beautiful people in the world. Her last flick was Always (1989) in 1989.
Audrey Hepburn deceased on January 20, 1993 in Tolochnaz, Switzerland, from appendicular many forms of cancer. She had made a total of 31 high quality flicks. Her elegance and style will always be remembered in flick history as evidenced by her being named in Empire magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars for all time. ".
