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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.
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