Famous Person Best Love Rating :
Famous Person:
Audrey Hepburn
Famous For:
Actress
Movie Titles:
Always (1989) .... Hap
Love Among Thieves (1987) (TV) .... Baroness Caroline DuLac
They All Laughed (1981) .... Angela Niotes
Bloodline (1979) .... Elizabeth Roffe
Robin and Marian (1976) .... Lady Marian
Wait Until Dark (1967) .... Susy Hendrix
Two for the Road (1967) .... Joanna Wallace
How to Steal a Million (1966) .... Nicole Bonnet
My Fair Lady (1964) .... Eliza Doolittle
Paris - When It Sizzles (1964) .... Gabrielle Simpson
Charade (1963) .... Regina 'Reggie' Lampert
New Kind of Love, A (1963) (uncredited) (unconfirmed) .... Runway Model
Children's Hour, The (1961) .... Karen Wright
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) .... Holly Golightly
Unforgiven, The (1960) .... Rachel Zachary
Nun's Story, The (1959) .... Sister Luke (Gabrielle van der Mal)
Green Mansions (1959) .... Rima
Love in the Afternoon (1957) .... Ariane Chavasse
Funny Face (1957) .... Jo Stockton
War and Peace (1956) .... Natasha Rostov
Sabrina (1954) .... Sabrina Fairchild
Roman Holiday (1953) .... Princess Ann ('Anya Smith')
Nous irons à Monte Carlo (1952) .... Melissa Walter
Secret People, The (1952) .... Nora
Monte Carlo Baby (1951) .... Linda Farrel
One Wild Oat (1951) .... Hotel receptionist
Young Wives' Tale (1951) .... Eve Lester
Laughter in Paradise (1951) .... Cigarette girl
Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951) .... Chiquita
Actress Description:
Hepburn, Audrey. Actress. b. Audrey Hepburn-Ruston, May 4, 1929, near Brussels, Belgium. d.1993. The daughter of an English banker and a Dutch baroness, she was sent to a girls' school near London after her parents' divorce. She was vacationing with her mother in Arnhem, Holland, when WW II broke out. She spent the war years in the Nazi-occupied town, attending a local public school and receiving ballet training at the Arnhem Conservatory. After the war she went to London on a ballet scholarship. Graceful, slender, and long-legged, she soon began winning modeling assignments from fashion photographers. In the early 50s she joined Felix Aylmer's acting classes and began playing bit parts in British movies. While filming Monte Carlo Baby on the French Riviera, in 1951, she met Colette, the French novelist, who insisted that Audrey play the lead in the forthcoming Broadway adaptation of her Gigi. Fragile and radiant, projecting both childlike and feminine qualities, Miss Hepburn was an ideal Colette heroine. Her success in the play led to a starring part opposite Gregory Peck in the film Roman Holiday, for which she won an Academy Award (she would later be nominated for Oscars four more times, for Sabrina, The Nun's Story, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Wait Until Dark). Six weeks after the Oscar ceremonies she won the Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway play 'Ondine.' Later in 1954 she married Mel Ferrer, her co-star in the play. They also co-starred in King Vidor's War and Peace, she as Natasha and he as Andrei. Ferrer later directed her in Green Mansions and produced her last picture of the 60s, Wait Until Dark (1967), for which she received her fifth Oscar nomination, for her portrayal of a terrorized blind woman. But Ferrer had no part in the real highlights of her career, notably Funny Face, Love in the Afternoon, The Nun's Story, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charade and My Fair Lady. They divorced in 1968. The following year she married an Italian psychiatrist nine years her junior and made her home in Rome and later in Switzerland. She was named a Special Ambassador for UNICEF and devoted much of her free time to charity. She returned to the screen in 1976 after a nine-year absence as a luminous Mid Marian in Robin and Marian, but her subsequent film appearances were few and far between. Shortly after a highly-publicized 1992 mission of mercy to famine- and wartorn Somalia, she was diagnosed with colon cancer. She sucumed after a brief struggle with the disease. Her death was mourned internationally as the loss of one of the favorite film actresses of all time, an icon to style, elegance, dignity, and charity.
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