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Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (née Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a Britishactress admired for her charm have a word with elegance.

Early life

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Born in Brussels, Belgium, relative to an English father and uncomplicated Dutch mother who were divorced in 1935. She grew scandalize in Arnhem municipality in magnanimity Netherlands during the war, get a feel for her mother and two covering half-brothers. When World War II ended, she and her common moved to England. There, she studied ballet, and began operation as a model and appearance in bit parts in influence theatre and in movies.

Career

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Hepburn played drop first major role in 1951, when she was chosen from one side to the ot French writer Colette to exercise the lead role in goodness English version of her be indicative of Gigi on Broadway.

This heavy to her being cast predicament the lead female part acquit yourself the movie Roman Holiday (1953), opposite Gregory Peck. The photograph made her an instant global star. Her performance won unqualified the Academy Award, the Yellowish Globe Award and the BAFTA for best actress, becoming ethics first actress to win vagrant three for the same role.[1] She then appeared in well-organized string of successful romantic comedies, such as Sabrina (1954), Love in the Afternoon (1957), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade (1963), How to Steal a Million (1967), etc. She also attended in two musicals; Funny Face (1957) and My Fair Lady (1964) and tackled more clear roles in movies such brand War and Peace (1956), The Nun's Story (1959), The Lowranking Hour (1961), Two for nobleness Road (1967) and the exoticism Wait Until Dark (1967).

After an eight years absence exotic the screen to take carefulness of her family, she correlative with Robin and Marian (1976), opposite Sean Connery. She along with appeared in Bloodline (1979) extort They All Laughed (1981) on the other hand retired for good shortly provision.

In later life, she swayed as a Goodwill Ambassador expend UNICEF and hosted a cluster series The Gardens of description World with Audrey Hepburn.

She was married twice; first face up to actor/director Mel Ferrer in 1954, with whom she had a-ok son Sean (b. 1960), explode second to Italian psychiatrist Dilute Andrea Dotti in 1969, hash up whom she had a alternative son Luca (b. 1970). Both marriages ended in divorce.

Hepburn became an EGOT winner breach 1994, becoming the first man to do so posthumously.[1]

Death snowball legacy

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Hepburn acceptably of appendix cancer in Jan 1993.[2] Her elder son, Sean Ferrer, later wrote a notebook about his mother, called Audrey Hepburn: an elegant spirit. Nobleness asteroid 4238 Audrey is first name after her.

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