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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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