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Audrey Hepburn
Hepburn in 1956
Born	Audrey Kathleen Ruston (1929-05-04)4 May 1929 Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
Died	20 January 1993(1993-01-20) (aged 63) Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland
Resting place	Tolochenaz Cemetery
Citizenship	UK (from father)
Occupations	Actress humanitarian
Years active	1948\u20131989
Notable work	Full list
Spouses	\n \n Mel Ferrer \n (m. 1954; div. 1968) \n \n Andrea Dotti \n (m. 1969; div. 1982) \n
Partner	Robert Wolders (1980\u20131993)
Children	2, including Sean Hepburn Ferrer
Mother	Ella van Heemstra
Relatives	\n Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra (maternal grandfather) \n Emma Ferrer (granddaughter) \n
Awards	Full list


Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF
In office 1989\u20131993
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Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (n\u00e9e Ruston; 4 May 1929 \u2013 20 January 1993) was a British^[a] actress. Recognised as 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 Hall of Fame List.\n

Born into an aristocratic family in Ixelles, Brussels, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, England and the Netherlands. She attended boarding school in Kent from 1936 to 1939. With the outbreak of World War II, she returned to the Netherlands.^[3] During the war, Hepburn studied ballet at the Arnhem Conservatory, and by 1944 she was performing ballet to raise money to support the Dutch resistance.^[4] She studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam beginning in 1945 and with Marie Rambert in London from 1948.\n

Hepburn 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 became the first actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. In that year, she also won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine. Hepburn went on to star in a number of successful films, such as Sabrina (1954), with Humphrey Bogart and William Holden; Funny Face (1957), a musical in which 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 role, Hepburn 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 \u2013 Informational Programming. In 1994, Hepburn's contributions to a spoken-word recording titled Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales earned her a posthumous Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children. She is one of few entertainers who have won competitive Academy, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Awards. 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.\n

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, Hepburn received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. A month later, she died of appendix cancer at her home in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland, at the age of 63.^[5]\n

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v t e People who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards
listed by duration and year of completion
Competitive EGOTs	\n Richard Rodgers (1946\u20131962) \n Helen Hayes (1932\u20131977) \n Rita Moreno (1962\u20131977) \n John Gielgud (1948\u20131991) \n Audrey Hepburn (1954\u20131994) \n Marvin Hamlisch (1974\u20131995) \n Jonathan Tunick (1978\u20131997) \n Mel Brooks (1967\u20132001) \n Mike Nichols (1961\u20132001) \n Whoopi Goldberg (1985\u20132002) \n Scott Rudin (1984\u20132012) \n Robert Lopez (2004\u20132014) \n John Legend (2006\u20132018) \n Andrew Lloyd Webber (1980\u20132018) \n Tim Rice (1980\u20132018) \n Alan Menken (1990\u20132020) \n Jennifer Hudson (2007\u20132022) \n Viola Davis (2001\u20132023) \n Elton John (1987\u20132024) \n Benj Pasek (2017\u20132024) \n Justin Paul (2017\u20132024) \n
Honorary recipients	\n Barbra Streisand (1964\u20131970) \n Liza Minnelli (1965\u20131990) \n James Earl Jones (1969\u20132011) \n Harry Belafonte (1954\u20132014) \n Quincy Jones (1964\u20132016) \n Frank Marshall (2019\u20132023) \n

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Early life

1929\u20131938: Family and early childhood

1939\u20131945: Experiences during World War II

Entertainment career

1945\u20131952: Ballet studies and early acting roles

1953\u20131960: Roman Holiday and stardom

1961\u20131967: Breakfast at Tiffany's and continued success

1968\u20131993: Semi-retirement and final projects

Humanitarian work

1988\u20131992

Recognition

Personal life and final years

Multilingualism

Marriages, relationships, and children

Illness and death

Legacy

Public image and style icon

Filmography and stage roles

Awards and honours

See also

Notes

References

Bibliography

Further reading

External links

Audrey Hepburn

Talks

4 May, 1929