Audrey Hepburn

Acting · 3.7 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993
From: 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) 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.

Works

66 films

Roman Holiday

19537.9

My Fair Lady

19647.5

Breakfast at Tiffany's

19617.6

Sabrina

19547.5

Charade

19637.7

War and Peace

19566.6

Funny Face

19577.0

Always

19896.2

How to Steal a Million

19667.5

The Unforgiven

19606.2

Paris When It Sizzles

19646.3

Wait Until Dark

19677.3

The Children's Hour

19617.7

Robin and Marian

19766.3

The Nun's Story

19597.2

Audrey

20207.1

Green Mansions

19595.7

Two for the Road

19677.0

Love in the Afternoon

19577.0

The Lavender Hill Mob

19517.2

They All Laughed

19815.9

Very Ralph

20196.3

Directed by William Wyler

1986

Bloodline

19794.9

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

20027.7

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

19937.6

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

19957.7

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

Becoming Cary Grant

20176.6

Bert Stern - Original Madman

20117.6

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

20106.7

Laughter in Paradise

19516.5

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

199610.0

Monte Carlo Baby

19516.8

More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'

19957.5

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

19887.0

Godard Cinema

20235.5

Hollywood sul Tevere

2009

Love Among Thieves

19876.2

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's

2009

The Fred Astaire Songbook

1991

Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady

19978.0

Young Wives' Tale

19515.3

Vito

20116.9

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

19886.7

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

20127.2

Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood

19787.1

Nicotine - A Drug with a Future

20205.8

Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words

19936.5

Secret People

19526.4

Discovering Audrey Hepburn

20158.0

One Wild Oat

19515.2

Audrey Hepburn: The Magic of Audrey

20086.5

Beautiful Like a Poem

2020

Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Making of a Classic

20068.0

Dutch in Seven Lessons

19485.4

Audrey Hepburn: The Paramount Years

200810.0

Audrey Hepburn Test

1952

Audrey Hepburn, the choice of elegance

20188.0

Legenden: Audrey Hepburn

20056.0

Mayerling

19576.1

Darcey Bussell: Looking for Audrey

20148.0

Restoring Roman Holiday

20027.7

It's So Audrey! A Style Icon

20067.7

Audrey Hepburn - Ein Star auf der Suche nach sich selbst

2004

Femme De La Lune

2025