Overview
Born : May 4, 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
Died : January 20, 1993 in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland (appendiceal cancer)
Birth Name : Audrey Kathleen Ruston
Nickname: Edda van Heemstra
Height : 5' 7" (1.7 m)
Audrey Hepburn was brought into the world as Audrey Kathleen Ruston on May 4, 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. Her mom, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra, was a Dutch aristocrat, while her dad, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, was brought into the world in Úzice, Bohemia, to English and Austrian guardians.
After her folks' separation, Audrey went to London with her mom where she went to a private young ladies school. Afterward, when her mom moved back to the Netherlands, she went to tuition based schools too. While she traveled with her mom in Arnhem, Netherlands, Hitler's military assumed control over the town. It was here that she ran into some bad luck during the Nazi occupation. Audrey experienced misery and ailing health.
After the freedom, she went to an expressive dance school in London on a grant and later started a displaying profession. As a model, she was smooth and, it appeared, she had tracked down her specialty throughout everyday life - until the film makers came calling. In 1948, subsequent to being spotted demonstrating by a maker, she was endorsed to a piece part in the European film Dutch in Seven Lessons (1948). Afterward, she played a talking part in the 1951 film, Young Wives' Tale (1951) as Eve Lester. The part actually wasn't a lot, so she made a beeline for America to take a shot there. Audrey acquired quick unmistakable quality in the US with her job in Roman Holiday (1953). This film ended up being a crushing achievement, and she won an Oscar as Best Actress.
On September 25, 1954, she wedded entertainer Mel Ferrer. She likewise featured in Sabrina (1954), for which she got another Academy Award designation. She featured in the movies Funny Face (1957) and Love in the Afternoon (1957). She got one more Academy Award selection for her part in The Nun's Story (1959). On July 17, 1960, she brought forth her first child, Sean Hepburn Ferrer.
Audrey arrived at the zenith of her vocation when she played Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), for which she got another Oscar designation. She scored business achievement again playing Regina Lampert in the surveillance escapade Charade (1963). One of Audrey's most brilliant jobs was in the fine creation of My Fair Lady (1964). After two or three different films, most remarkably Two for the Road (1967), she hit the jackpot and one more designation in Wait Until Dark (1967).
In 1967, Audrey chose to resign from acting while she was on top. She separated from Mel Ferrer in 1968. On January 19, 1969, she wedded Dr. Andrea Dotti. On February 8, 1970, she brought forth her subsequent child, Luca Dotti in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland. Every now and then, she would show up on the cinema.
In 1988, she turned into an extraordinary representative to the United Nations UNICEF reserve helping kids in Latin America and Africa, a position she held until 1993. She was named to People's magazine as one of the 50 most excellent individuals on the planet. Her last film was Always (1989) in 1989.
Audrey Hepburn kicked the bucket, matured 63, on January 20, 1993 in Tolochnaz, Vaud, Switzerland, from attached disease. She had made an aggregate of 31 great films. Her class and style will constantly be recalled in film history as confirmed by her being named in Empire magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time".
Was best option for the lead in A Taste of Honey (1961).
Positioned #50 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Mother of Sean Hepburn Ferrer, with first spouse, Mel Ferrer.
Child, Luca Dotti (b. 8 February 1970), with second spouse, Dr. Andrea Dotti.
Picked by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People on the planet. [1990]
After Wait Until Dark (1967) was offered the leads in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), 40 Carats (1973), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), The Exorcist (1973), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977) and The Turning Point (1977) yet chose to remain in retirement and bring up her children.
Buried in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland.
Picked by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#8). [1995]
Turned down the film Gigi (1958) subsequent to making the person in the Broadway non melodic play.
Had a variety of tulip named after her in 1990.
Passed on January 20, 1993, the day of Bill Clinton's first initiation as President of the United States and the 67th birthday celebration of Patricia Neal. They featured together in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).
She won the 1953 Best Actress Academy Award for Roman Holiday (1953). On March 25th, 1954, she acknowledged the honor from the much adored Academy president Jean Hersholt. Subsequent to tolerating the honor, Audrey kissed him smack on the mouth, rather than the cheek, in her fervor. Minutes subsequent to tolerating her 1953 Oscar, Audrey understood that she'd lost it. Turning rapidly on the means of the Center Theater in New York, she hustled back to the women's room, recovered the honor, and was prepared to posture for photos.
Dedicated essentially Audrey Kathleen Ruston, her mom Baroness Ella Van Heemstra briefly changed her girl's name from "Audrey" to "Edda" during the conflict, feeling that "Audrey" may demonstrate her British roots too firmly. During the conflict, being English in involved Netherlands was not a resource; it might have drawn in the consideration of the possessing German powers and brought about imprisonment or even removal. After the conflict her dad Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston observed archives about his predecessors, some of whom bore the name "Hepburn". This is the point at which he added it to his name, which made her little girl need to add Hepburn to her lawful name also, accordingly Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston.
Was conversant in English, Dutch, Spanish, French, and Italian. She was raised bilingually; communicating in English and Dutch (bringing about her novel complement). All through her life, she involved multilingualism to incredible benefit with worldwide press in both her vocations as an entertainer and compassionate.
Was momentarily considered for the primary job in Cleopatra (1963) yet the part went to Elizabeth Taylor
She admitted to eating tulip bulbs and attempted to prepare grass into bread during the hard long stretches of World War II.
In 1990, on the TV show "Reflections on the TV screen", when gotten some information about the longstanding talk that she felt that she was miscast in one of her most well known jobs as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961): "No, that is very off-base. I had no apprehensions about "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Certain individuals had, yet not me. I don't think Truman Capote thought I was ideal for the part. What's more certain individuals thought it was an alternate time that it was a piece setting out to play a call young lady.".
Was prepared as a dental associate prior to becoming showbiz royalty.
Henry Mancini said of her: "'Moon River' was composed for her. No other person had at any point gotten it so totally. There have been in excess of 1,000 renditions of 'Moon River', yet hers is inquestionably the best".
Turned down the lead job in the film The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) on the grounds that she was excessively old for the part. Years after the fact, in 1990, during her philanthropic vocation, she went with author Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony ensemble to describe parts of Frank's journal for a musical work he had expressed, "From The Diary of Anne Frank", which she performed on a little visit in the United States and London. Continues from every one of the shows helped UNICEF.
Like Humphrey Bogart, Hepburn likewise featured in five of the motion pictures recorded by American Film Institute in its Top 100 U.S. romantic tales (2002). They are Roman Holiday (1953), positioned #4 on the rundown, Sabrina (1954) positioned #54, which co-featured Bogart, My Fair Lady (1964) positioned #12, Two for the Road (1967) at #57 and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) #61.
During the skirmish of Arnhem, 16-year-old Audrey was a volunteer attendant in a Dutch clinic. The emergency clinic got many injured Allied warriors, one of whom youthful Audrey helped nurture back to wellbeing was a youthful British paratrooper - and future chief - named Terence Young. Over 20 years after the fact, Young coordinated Hepburn in Wait Until Dark (1967).
In 1954 she was given her Best Actress Oscar for Roman Holiday (1953) by Jean Hersholt. In 1993 she was post mortem granted the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
During World War II, she lived in Arnhem, Netherlands. She worked with the Dutch Underground, giving expressive dance exhibitions to gather gifts for the counter Nazi exertion and as an infrequent messenger. She likewise got dance preparing and later concentrated on expressive dance in London.
Introduced the Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards multiple times (in 1955, 1960, 1966, and 1975), more than some other entertainer.
Let People Magazine know that she was exceptionally unsure with regards to her size-10 feet.
She was casted a ballot the 21st Greatest Movie Star ever by Entertainment Weekly.
In 1993 she turned into the thirteenth entertainer to win the Triple Crown of Acting. Oscar - Best Actress for Roman Holiday (1953), Tony for Best Actress in a Play for "Ondine" (1954) and Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement
Educational Programming for Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn (1993).
Was style originator Hubert de Givenchy's dream, who dressed her for the movies Sabrina (1954), Funny Face (1957), Love in the Afternoon (1957), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Paris When It Sizzles (1964), How to Steal a Million (1966), Charade (1963) and Love Among Thieves (1987).
In 1996 the British magazine Harpers and Queen gathered information to track down the most entrancing ladies within recent memory. She was in the #1 spot.
Starting at 2005, she is one of just nine entertainers to win an Oscar, a Tony, an Emmy and a Grammy Award.
Her dad was of roughly one quarter English and 3/4 Austrian drop. Her mom was Dutch, with remote French and English roots. A few reports erroneously recognized Audrey as having Irish family line on her fatherly side (which even she accepted), however her dad's just connections to Ireland were having dwelled there in the last option part of his life.
Followed winning the Academy Award for Roman Holiday (1953) with winning Broadway's 1954 Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "Ondine."
Casted a ballot #1 in TheAge.com's Top 100: Natural Beauties ever.
She claimed a Yorkshire Terrier called "Mr Famous".
She was casted a ballot the eighteenth Greatest Movie Star ever by Premiere Magazine.
Was named #3 on The American Film Institute's 50 Greatest Screen Legends
Her greatest film lament was not getting the Anne Bancroft job in The Turning Point (1977). "That was the one film", she later conceded, "that moved away from me."
Is depicted by Jennifer Love Hewitt in The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000)
Whenever she neglected to get an Academy Award assignment for her job as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (1964), Katharine Hepburn wired her with a message of consolation: "Don't stress over it. You'll get it one day for a section that doesn't rate it." Ironically, when Audrey's straightaway (and last) designation came for Wait Until Dark (1967) in 1967, Hepburn beat her in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - in a section that apparently didn't rate it.
Her personality in Funny Face (1957) was roused by Suzy Parker, who showed up in the film (her first film) in the "Think Pink" grouping.
As per her account, "Audrey Hepburn: An Intimate Portrait", she made a promise to herself never to surpass 103 pounds. Except for her pregnancies, she succeeded.
Turned down the lead spot in Gigi (1958) to make Funny Face (1957). Unexpectedly, her representative at first dismissed the film, however Hepburn abrogated the choice in the wake of perusing the content. Her mom, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra, shows up as a walkway bistro supporter, and her Yorkshire terrier "Mr Famous" shows up as the canine in the crate during the "Anna Karenina" train shot. Hepburn would have rather not be isolated from spouse Mel Ferrer, so recording of the Paris scenes was coordinated to correspond with Ferrer's shooting of Paris Does Strange Things (1956). Paris' unexpectedly blustery climate must be worked into the content, especially during the inflatables photograph shoot scene. During recording of the Paris scenes, a significant part of the team and cast were anxious on account of uproars and political viciousness that were grasping the city. The spongy climate played ruin with the shooting of the wedding dress dance scene. Both Fred Astaire and Hepburn were constantly sneaking in the sloppy and dangerous grass. In "Silly Face" she was adequately fortunate to sing a few tunes. Her next full melodic, My Fair Lady (1964), made them sing voice named by Marni Nixon, causing Hepburn a deep sense of's mistake. The face picture uncovered in the darkroom scene was captured by Richard Avedon. The film was shot consecutive with Love in the Afternoon (1957).
As per chief William Friedkin, Audrey was Warner Bros. best option for the job of Chris MacNeil in The Exorcist (1973) after her film industry victories with the studio's creations The Nun's Story (1959), My Fair Lady (1964) and Wait Until Dark (1967). She would possibly consent to star assuming the film were made in Rome, so she would have the option to stay home to bring up her children. Both Friedkin and essayist William Peter Blatty dismissed the proposition, and ultimately cast Ellen Burstyn.
Her presentation as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) is positioned #32 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
Requested the piece of Emma Jacklin in The Turning Point (1977) yet Anne Bancroft had effectively been projected in the job.
Hepburn was determined to have appendiceal malignant growth on November 1, 1992 (not colon disease, as it is regularly erroneously called). The disease spread into the covering of her small digestive tract. She had one foot of digestive system eliminated in a medical procedure and went through chemotherapy, yet in a moment medical procedure it was concluded that the malignant growth had spread excessively far and couldn't be dealt with. Her child Sean Hepburn Ferrer accepts it had likely been creating throughout the past five years.
From 1980 until her demise, she lived respectively in Switzerland with her accomplice, Dutch entertainer Robert Wolders.
The US Postal Service gave a 37 penny dedicatory stamp regarding her as a Hollywood legend and philanthropic (2003).
Her well known "minimal dark dress" from Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), planned by Hubert de Givenchy, was sold at a Christie's closeout for around $920,000 (5 December 2006).
Was casted a ballot "most delightful lady ever" by the perusers of "New Woman" magazine (2006).
Adoptive parent of Victoria Brynner, the little girl of Doris Kleiner and Yul Brynner.
Saved the existence of her companion Capucine, who endeavored self destruction on a few events.
In Italy she was solely named by Maria Pia Di Meo, besides in her initial two movies (Roman Holiday (1953) (Vacanze Romane) and Sabrina (1954)) and in Green Mansions (1959) (Verdi dimore), where she was named by Fiorella Betti.
She was given her 1953 Best Actress Oscar for "Roman Holiday" by entertainer and compassionate Jean Hersholt. After forty years she would post mortem get the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for her work with UNICEF.
Starting at 2007, she and Katharine Hepburn are the as it were "Best Actress" Oscar-victors to share a last name. Obviously, they are not related.
Met future spouse Mel Ferrer at a party facilitated by Gregory Peck. It was Ferrer who sent Hepburn the content for "Ondine", which Hepburn consented to play on Broadway, in which the couple co-featured.
Scottish author A.J. Cronin was adoptive parent of Sean Hepburn Ferrer, her first kid.
Was companions with Eva Gabor.
When conceded that she would not have acknowledged the job of Eliza Dolittle in My Fair Lady (1964) assuming she had realized that maker Jack L. Warner wanted to have every last bit of her singing named.
Hepburn was offered the job of a Japanese lady inverse Marlon Brando in Sayonara (1957) yet turned it down. She later clarified that she "couldn't really play an Oriental. Nobody would trust me; they'd chuckle. It's a beautiful content, notwithstanding, I know what I should or shouldn't do. Furthermore assuming that you convinced me, you would think twice about it, since I would be horrendous".
Crushed her spirit during recording of a pony riding scene in The Unforgiven (1960).
Won a 1968 Special Tony Award (New York City).
Was considered for the piece of Tony Gromeko in Doctor Zhivago (1965), yet Geraldine Chaplin was projected all things being equal.
Was a dear companion of Gregory Peck, Ben Gazzara and French entertainer Capucine.
In December 1992, President George Bush gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in acknowledgment of her work for UNICEF. She didn't go to the service, due to being sick with malignant growth.
Almost wedded James (later Lord) Hanson, a financial specialist, in the wake of recording Roman Holiday (1953). An ivory silk wedding outfit was planned by the Fontana sisters, yet Hepburn canceled the wedding without a second to spare.
Her last helpful mission for UNICEF was to Somalia in September 1992. She was accounted for to have started encountering stomach torments towards the finish of the excursion, prompting her malignant growth finding, after two months.
Gotten back to work nine months in the wake of bringing forth her child Sean Hepburn Ferrer to start recording Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).
Experienced hydrophobia, a condition that seriously hampered a portion of her scenes in Two for the Road (1967). At the point when a shot called for co-star Albert Finney to toss Hepburn into a pool, jumpers were put on reserve (behind the scenes) just to pacify the entertainer after it was discovered that she had a sullen feeling of dread toward water.
During his acknowledgment discourse regarding her work for UNICEF, Sean Hepburn Ferrer committed his mom's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to "the offspring of the world".
One of just 15 people who are an "EGOT", significance having gotten somewhere around one of all of the four significant amusement grants: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony, seriously. Different beneficiaries are Richard Rodgers, Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, John Gielgud, Audrey Hepburn, Marvin Hamlisch, Jonathan Tunick, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Whoopi Goldberg, Scott Rudin, Robert Lopez, John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Six others (counting Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, James Earl Jones, Alan Menken, Harry Belafonte, and Quincy Jones) have won three of the four honors seriously and got a privileged fourth and hence don't, rigorously talking, qualify.
She gave every one of the pay rates she acquired for her last ventures to UNICEF (Love Among Thieves (1987), Always (1989), and Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn (1993)).
Workmanship was one of her long-term leisure activities, she drew pictures of stories when she was a kid to divert herself from persistent appetite torments during WWII. As a grown-up, she occupied artistic creation to breathe easy while pregnant with her child, Luca. Tests of her work should be visible in the book "Audrey Hepburn: An Elegant Spirit".
Notwithstanding her first child Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Hepburn became pregnant one more multiple times by her better half Mel Ferrer (in 1954, 1958, 1965, and 1967). Nonetheless, she endured unnatural birth cycles on those events. She fell pregnant two times with Dr. Andrea Dotti; conceiving an offspring in 1970 to her subsequent child, Luca, yet all the same lost in 1974.
Is one of 17 entertainers to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony); the others in sequential request are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Ellen Burstyn, Helen Mirren, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange, Viola Davis and Glenda Jackson.
Positioned #82 in Men's Health 100 Hottest Women of All Time (2011).
She tried out for, and did an outfit test for, the job of Lygia in Quo Vadis (1951), yet M-G-M turned her down on the grounds that she was excessively obscure at that point and went with Deborah Kerr.
Whenever Hepburn was in the last phases of her disease, the press took photos of her while she was at home, and distributed the photographs, likely stirring up a lot of objection for each and every individual who knew her.
While working in a minor film, Monte Carlo Baby (1953), in Monaco in 1951, Hepburn was spotted by writer Colette, who considered her the best decision to play the lead spot in the forthcoming Broadway adaptation of her play "Gigi." Although she needed insight and certainty, she eventually got the part.
She never singled out any of her movies as a top choice, however regularly talked affectionately of Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Roman Holiday (1953), Funny Face (1957), The Nun's Story (1959), and Charade (1963) in interviews. She apparently didn't appreciate chipping away at The Unforgiven (1960) because of wounds supported while shooting, and Wait Until Dark (1967) from the pressure of her weak marriage. She was said to have additionally frustrated with the consequences of Paris When It Sizzles (1964) and Bloodline (1979). Regardless, she had gained notoriety for her impressive skill and quite often coexisted well with her co-stars and chiefs.
Concentrated on Ballet in London under Madame Rambert, later known as Dame Marie Rambert.
Arrival of the memoir, "Charm: The Life of Audrey Hepburn" by Donald Spoto. [2006]
Arrival of the memoir, "Audrey Hepburn: An Elegant Spirit" by her child, Sean Hepburn Ferrer. [2003]
Was the 40th entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Roman Holiday (1953) at The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954) on March 25, 1954.
Is one of 25 entertainers to have won an Academy Award for their exhibition in a satire; hers being for Roman Holiday (1953). The others, in sequential request, are: Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night (1934)), Loretta Young (The Farmer's Daughter (1947)), Josephine Hull (Harvey (1950)), Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday (1950)), Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower (1969)), Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class (1973)), Lee Grant (Shampoo (1975)), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall (1977)), Maggie Smith (California Suite (1978)), Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard (1980)), Jessica Lange (Tootsie (1982)), Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck (1987)), Cher (Moonstruck (1987)), Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy (1989)), Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King (1991)), Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny (1992)), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway (1994)) Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite (1995)), Frances McDormand (Fargo (1996)), Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets (1997)), Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)), and Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook (2012)).
Hepburn is referenced by name in the Frank Sinatra standard "Nancy with the Laughing Face.".
She acknowledged her last job as "Hap" in Always (1989) basically for the potential chance to work with Director Steven Spielberg. Hepburn was moved by Spielberg's film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) in the wake of taking her most youthful child to see it in Rome, and commented: "The man is a virtuoso!" She promised to work with him, from that point onward.
Was to play the lead in a screen rendition of the Henry Cecil novel "No Bail for the Judge," which was to be Alfred Hitchcock's followup to North by Northwest. Hepburn was to play the little girl of an English adjudicator who enrolls the guide of a hoodlum ( Laurence Harvey ) to absolve her dad, a High Court Judge who has been captured for the homicide of a whore. Hepburn exited the task when she became pregnant, and that, alongside ensuing changes in British law with respect to prostitution, made Hitchcock lose interest in the venture, and it was rarely made. A couple of years after the fact Hepburn featured with Cary Grant in Charade (1963) , which is in some cases alluded to as "the best Hitchcock film that Hitchcock won't ever make.".
Communicated in 5 dialects: English, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.
Expanded her smoking propensity to 60 cigarettes every day while recording The Unforgiven (1960).
Played via Caroline J. Smith in Hollywood Mouth 3 (2018).
Featured in three Best Picture Oscar candidates; Roman Holiday (1953), The Nun's Story (1959) and My Fair Lady (1964). My Fair Lady was the main champ.
The film "Al di la dal fiume e tra gli alberi", English title "Across the River and into the Trees," coordinated by Valerio Zurlini, featuring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn, was booked to being shooting April 1981, however no proof it was at any point gotten done or delivered.
Like individual five time candidates, Anne Bancroft and Jennifer Jones, won the Best Actress Oscar on her first designation, however didn't win again on ensuing acting selections.
Samsung dispatched a survey as Audrey Hepburn was casted a ballot "The Most Stylish Brit of All Time" (2015).
The United Nations Special Session on Children, UNICEF regarded Audrey Hepburn's tradition of helpful work by divulging a sculpture, "The Spirit of Audrey," at UNICEF's New York central command. Her administration for youngsters is additionally perceived through the US Fund for UNICEF's Audrey Hepburn Society (2002).
Since Hepburn's passing, her grave site in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland is one of the greatest vacation spots all through Europe as individuals from everywhere the world visit it, gathering a huge number of individuals all year.
Audrey Hepburn has continually been named as perhaps the most helpful icons of the professions, styles and compassionate works from unlimited measures of big name including Angelina Jolie, Victoria Beckham, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Olivia Wilde, Frieda Pinto, Taylor Swift, Mila Kunis and incalculable others.
She was named the "Most Beautiful Woman of All Time" and "Most Beautiful Woman of the twentieth Century" in surveys by Evian and QVC individually (2004).
Stanley Kubrick needed her to play Joséphine de Beauharnais in his hidden film on the existence of Napoléon Bonaparte. Hepburn kept in touch with Kubrick a letter communicating bootlicking on being offered the job, however benevolently composed that she wasn't keen on chipping away at a film right now. Without a doubt, she wouldn't chip away at a film until Robin and Marian (1976).
She has showed up in four movies that have been chosen for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "socially, all things considered or tastefully" critical: Roman Holiday (1953), Sabrina (1954), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and My Fair Lady (1964).
Was Cecil B. DeMille's unique decision for the job of Nefretiri in his scriptural epic The Ten Commandments (1956), however her figure was viewed as excessively thin for the transparent Egyptian outfits and the part went to Anne Baxter.
On August 18, 2019, she was respected with a day of her film work on the Turner Classic Movies Summer Under the Stars.
Begun smoking in 1944; the propensity became long lasting. She was a three-pack-a-day smoker at a certain point.
In the wake of recording Roman Holiday (1953), Gregory Peck informed the makers that, as Audrey Hepburn was surely going to win an Oscar (for this, her first critical job), they would be wise to place her name over the title. They did and she did.
She supplanted Marilyn Monroe in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).
It is accepted that smoking cigarettes vigorously from the age of 15 made her bound to create appendiceal malignant growth.
There were plans to wed Robert Wolders who had recently been hitched to Merle Oberon.
Her subsequent spouse, Andrea Dotti, passed on in Rome on 30 September 2007 after inconveniences from a colonoscopy.
Was browsed 10,000 candidates for the job of the Princess Ann in Roman Holiday (1953).
Was somewhere in the range of twenty and thirty years more youthful than large numbers of her more recognized driving men including Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda, Fred Astaire, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper and Rex Harrison.
She encouraged herself to move and gave an exhibition at Arnheim Theater.
An uncle was taken as a prisoner by the Germans during WWII and shot.
At the point when youthful she encouraged herself to move and gave exhibitions at Arnheim.
In the 1930's she resided with a Mr and Mrs Butcher in Eltham where she was known as Audrey Ruston.
List of Audrey Hepburn Movies
- Always
- Love Among Thieves (TV Movie)
- They All Laughed
- Bloodline
- Robin and Marian
- Wait Until Dark
- Two for the Road
- How to Steal a Million
- My Fair Lady
- Paris When It Sizzles
- The Children's Hour
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- The Unforgiven
- The Nun's Story
- Green Mansions
- Love in the Afternoon
- Funny Face
- Producers' Showcase (TV Series)
- War and Peace
- Sabrina
- Monte Carlo Baby
- Roman Holiday
- CBS Television Workshop (TV Series)
- Betty Crocker Star Matinee (TV Series)
- Secret People
- Young Wives' Tale
- Baby Beats the Band
- BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series)
- The Lavender Hill Mob
- Laughter in Paradise
- One Wild Oat
- Saturday-Night Revue (TV Mini Series) & Many more....
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