Audrey Hepburn

Acting · Born 1929-05-04 in Ixelles, Belgium

Biography

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)…

Filmography

• Breakfast at Tiffany's as Holly Golightly
• Roman Holiday as Princess Ann
• How to Steal a Million as Nicole Bonnet
• The Children's Hour as Karen Wright
• Charade as Regina Lampert
• Wait Until Dark as Susy Hendrix
• My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle
• Two for the Road as Joanna Wallace
• Sabrina as Sabrina Fairchild
• The Lavender Hill Mob as Chiquita

TV

• The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
• Intimate Portrait as Self (archive footage)
• Producers' Showcase as Marie Vetsera
• The Oscars as Self
• The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
• Wogan as Self
• Bambi as Self
• Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn as Self
• Was bin ich? as Self