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Audrey Hepburn
Acting
1929-05-04 - Present
Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston) was an 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) alongside Gregory Peck, for which she was the first actress to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. That year, she also won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine. She went on to star in a number of successful films such as Sabrina (1954), in which Humphrey Bogart and William Holden compete for her affection; Funny Face (1957), a musical where she sang her own parts; the drama The Nun's Story (1959); the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); the thriller-romance Charade (1963), opposite Cary Grant; and the musical My Fair Lady (1964). In 1967 she starred in the thriller Wait Until Dark, receiving Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations. After that, she only occasionally appeared in films, one being Robin and Marian (1976) with Sean Connery. Her last recorded performances were in the 1990 documentary television series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming. Hepburn won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. In recognition of her film career, she received BAFTA's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award. She remains one of only seventeen people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. Later in life, Hepburn devoted much of her time to UNICEF, to which she had contributed since 1954. Between 1988 and 1992, she worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America, and Asia. In December 1992, she received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. A month later, she died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland, at the age of 63.
Credits
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Breakfast at Tiffany'sasHolly Golightly
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Roman HolidayasPrincess Ann
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CharadeasRegina Lampert
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SabrinaasSabrina Fairchild
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The UnforgivenasRachel Zachary
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My Fair LadyasEliza Doolittle
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War and PeaceasNatasha Rostova
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Wait Until DarkasSusy Hendrix
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Funny FaceasJo Stockton
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How to Steal a MillionasNicole Bonnet
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AlwaysasHap
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The Nun's StoryasSister Luke
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The Children's HourasKaren Wright
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Love in the AfternoonasAriane Chavasse / Thin Girl
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The Lavender Hill MobasChiquita
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BloodlineasElizabeth Roffe
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Robin and MarianasLady Marian
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Paris When It SizzlesasGabrielle Simpson
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Two for the RoadasJoanna Wallace
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AudreyasSelf - Actress (archive footage)
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They All LaughedasAngela Niotes
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Secret PeopleasNora Brentano
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Audrey Hepburn: RememberedasSelf (archive footage)
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack CardiffasNatasha Rostova (archive footage)
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MayerlingasCountess Marie Vetsera
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Cher: In Her Own WordsasSelf (archive footage)
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Becoming Cary GrantasSelf (archive footage)
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Very RalphasSelf (archive footage)
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Beautiful Like a Poemas
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Laughter in ParadiseasCigarette Girl
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Monte Carlo BabyasMelissa Walter
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Directed by William WylerasSelf
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Edith Head: The Paramount YearsasSelf (screen tests) (archive footage)
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Roger Moore: A Matter of ClassasSelf (archive footage)
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Green MansionsasRima
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Young Wives' TaleasEve Lester
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Bert Stern - Original MadmanasSelf (archive footage)
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Gregory Peck: His Own ManasSelf
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Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading ManasSelf (archive footage)
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Love Among ThievesasBaroness Caroline DuLac
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More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'asSelf / Eliza Doolittle (archive footage)
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One Wild OatasHotel Receptionist
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The Good, The Bad, and the BeautifulasSelf (archive footage)
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Nicotine - A Drug with a FutureasSelf (archive footage)
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Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest LadyasSelf (archive footage)
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Dutch in Seven LessonsasStewardess / Girl with lute
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Audrey Hepburn: The Magic of AudreyasSelf / Various characters (archive footage)
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Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own WordsasNarrator / Host
Darcey Bussell: Looking for AudreyasSelf / Various (archive footage)
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Fear and Loathing on the Road to HollywoodasSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960'sas(archive footage)
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Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Making of a ClassicasSelf (archive footage)
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Legenden: Audrey HepburnasSelf (archive footage)
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The Fred Astaire SongbookasSelf - Host
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Restoring Roman HolidayasPrincess Ann (archive footage)
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Audrey Hepburn, the choice of eleganceasSelf (archive footage)
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It's So Audrey! A Style IconasSelf (archive footage)
Audrey Hepburn: The Paramount YearsasSelf (archive footage)
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Audrey Hepburn - Ein Star auf der Suche nach sich selbstasSelf (archive footage)
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Femme De La LuneasLead Vocals