Audrey Hepburn

 

Audrey Hepburn was a Belgian-born American actress and humanitarian. Born on May 4th 1929 Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston in Brussels, Belgium, daughter of a well-to-do British banker and a Dutch baroness mother. Ms. Hepburn attended private schools in England and the Netherlands, but after the divorce of her parents she was living with her mother in the Netherlands when the German invasion and occupation of World War II occurred.
After the war, she and her mother moved to London, England where she studied ballet, worked as a model, and, in 1951 began acting in films. After being chosen to play the lead character in the Broadway play, Gigi, and after a successful run in New York, Ms. Hepburn was offered a starring role in the Hollywood motion picture, Roman Holiday. For her performance, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and over her illustrious career she would be nominated best actress four more times. Audrey Hepburn died of colon cancer on January 20, 1993, in Tolchenaz, Vaud, Switzerland and was interred there.

Audrey

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Audrey KI17003 60x80cm
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