Audrey HepburnAudrey Hepburn

• Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston was a slender , stylish motion picture actress known for her radiant beauty.

• She was born in Belgium

• 1939 moved to Netherlands

• Took ballet lessons and worked as a model

• While making a film in Monte-Carlo, Hepburn caught the eye of the French novelist Colette, who felt that Hepburn would be ideal for the title role in the stage adaptation of her novel Gigi.

. Her next project took her to Rome, where she starred in her first major American film, Roman Holiday (1953).

• Hepburn demonstrated her ability to combine a regal bearing with a tomboyish winsomeness that utterly charmed audiences, and she won an Academy Award for best actress.

• Hepburn returned to the stage early in 1954 as a water nymph in Ondine, costarring Mel Ferrer, whom she married later that year.

She continued to enchant movie audiences, however, in such light romantic comedies as Sabrina (1954; this role provided her first occasion to appear in designs by Hubert de Givenchy, with whose fashions she became identified) and Funny Face (1957)

War and Peace (1956)

The Nun’s Story (1959).

• By the 1960s, Hepburn had outgrown her ingenue image and began playing more sophisticated and worldly, albeit often still vulnerable characters, including the effervescent and mysterious Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

Charade (1963),

Her most controversial role was perhaps that of Eliza Doolittle in the motion picture musical My Fair Lady (1964)

Wait Until Dark (1967),

• After appearing in the thriller Wait Until Dark (1967), Hepburn went into semiretirement.

• She did not return to acting until 1976, when she costarred in the nostalgic love story Robin and Marian

• 1988 she began a new career as a special goodwill ambassador for United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

• She devoted herself to her humanitarian work.

Audrey Hepburn Quotes

• The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

• I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

• I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

• I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

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