1929-05-04 ( 95 years old ) in Ixelles, Belgium
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.
Movies
Cher: In Her Own Words
2021-05-04
Audrey
2020-11-30
Nicotine - A Drug with a Future
2020-09-20
Very Ralph
2019-11-12
Audrey Hepburn, the choice of elegance
2018-12-30
Becoming Cary Grant
2017-05-23
Darcey Bussell: Looking for Audrey
2014-12-29
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
Dove Chocolate: Audrey Hepburn
2013-01-01
Bert Stern - Original Madman
2011-09-02
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010-05-05
Audrey Hepburn: The Paramount Years
2008-11-08
Audrey Hepburn: The Magic of Audrey
2008-03-01
It's So Audrey! A Style Icon
2006-02-07
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
2005-08-01
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002-11-26
Restoring Roman Holiday
2002-11-26
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997-03-21
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996-03-17
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995-11-16
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1993-08-11
Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words
1993-01-01
The Fred Astaire Songbook
1991-03-08
Always
1989-12-22
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988-06-05
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
1988-03-08
Love Among Thieves
1987-02-23
Directed by William Wyler
1986-05-01
They All Laughed
1981-11-20
Bloodline
1979-06-29
Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood
1978-11-02
Robin and Marian
1976-03-11
Wait Until Dark
1967-10-26
Two for the Road
1967-04-27
How to Steal a Million
1966-07-13
My Fair Lady
1964-10-21
Paris When It Sizzles
1964-03-01
Charade
1963-12-01
The Children's Hour
1961-12-19
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961-10-06
The Unforgiven
1960-04-06
The Nun's Story
1959-06-18
Green Mansions
1959-03-19
Love in the Afternoon
1957-05-29
Funny Face
1957-02-13
Mayerling
1957-02-04
War and Peace
1956-08-21
Sabrina
1954-09-10
Roman Holiday
1953-08-26
Secret People
1952-02-05
Monte Carlo Baby
1951-11-22
Young Wives' Tale
1951-11-01
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951-06-28
Laughter in Paradise
1951-06-01
One Wild Oat
1951-05-16
Dutch in Seven Lessons
1948-05-07
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