Audrey Hepburn - A Movie Icon
Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium. She was blue-blood from the beginning with her father a wealthy English banker and her mother, a Dutch baroness. After her parents divorced Audrey went to London with her mother where she went to a private girl’s school. Later, when her mother moved back to the Netherlands, she attended private schools as well. While vacationing with her mother in Arnhem, Holland, Hitler's army took over the town. It was here that she fell on hard times during the Nazi occupation. She reportedly helped the resistance movement by delivering messages, according to an article in The New York Times.
After the liberation, Audrey studied ballet in Amsterdam and later in London. In 1948, Hepburn made her stage debut as a chorus girl in the musical High Button Shoes in London. At the age of 22,
Audrey Hepburn went to New York to star in the Broadway production of Gigi, a few weeks after the play premiered news reports indicated that Hepburn was being wooed by Hollywood. As a model and stage actress, she was graceful and, it seemed, she had found her niche in life - until the film producers came calling. After being spotted modeling by a producer, she was signed to a bit part in the European film Dutch in Seven Lessons in 1948.
Just a few years later, in 1953, she took the world by storm in the film Roman Holiday with Gregory Peck and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. Roman Holiday was followed by another similarly wonderful performance in Sabrina Fair, in 1954, for which she received another Academy nomination, and the 1957 classic Funny Face, also garnered rave reviews. Audrey reached the pinnacle of her career when she played Holly Golightly in the delightful film Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1961. For this she received another nomination.
One of Audrey's most radiant roles was in the fine production of My Fair Lady in 1964 and by this time she had cemented her place as one of the worlds best loved actresses. She was named in People's magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world and was honoured in Empire magazine's top 100 movie stars of all time. Her last film was Always in 1989. Audrey Hepburn died on January 20, 1993 in Tolochnaz, Switzerland, from appendicular cancer. She had made a total of 31 high quality movies. Her elegance and style will always be remembered in film history and celebrated by
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