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Audrey Hepburn
Actor
Born May 4, 1929Died January 20, 1993 (63 years)
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.
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.
Known For
Audrey Hepburn Filmography
| 2023 | Being Mary Tyler Moore · as Holly Golightly |
| 2020 | Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation · as Holly Golightly |
| 2018 | Feminists: What Were They Thinking? · as Karen Wright |
| 2016 | I Am Not Your Negro · as Ariane Chavasse |
| 2015 | |
| 2011 | Vito · as Karen Wright |
| 2010 | Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff · as Natasha Rostova (archive Footage) |
| 2009 | Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's · as (archive Footage) |
| 2005 | Filmmakers vs. Tycoons · as Regina Lampert |
| 2000 | Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years · as Joanna Wallace |
| 1999 | ABC 2000: The Millennium · as Cast |
| 1993 | Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words · as Narrator / Host |
| 1990 | Hollywood Mavericks · as Angela Niotes |
| 1989 | Always · as Hap |
| 1987 | Love Among Thieves · as Baroness Caroline Dulac |
| 1982 | Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter · as Regina Lampert |
| 1981 | They All Laughed · as Angela Niotes |
| 1979 | Bloodline · as Elizabeth Roffe |
| 1976 | TVTV Looks at the Academy Awards · as Sel |
| 1976 | Robin and Marian · as Lady Marian |
| 1967 | Wait Until Dark · as Susy Hendrix |
| 1967 | Two for the Road · as Joanna Wallace |
| 1966 | How to Steal a Million · as Nicole Bonnet |
| 1964 | My Fair Lady · as Eliza Doolittle |
| 1964 | Paris When It Sizzles · as Gabrielle Simpson |
| 1963 | |
| 1961 | The Children's Hour · as Karen Wright |
| 1961 | Breakfast at Tiffany's · as Holly Golightly |
| 1960 | The Unforgiven · as Rachel Zachary |
| 1959 | The Nun's Story · as Sister Luke |
| 1959 | Green Mansions · as Rima |
| 1957 | Love in the Afternoon · as Ariane Chavasse / Thin Girl |
| 1957 | Funny Face · as Jo Stockton |
| 1957 | Mayerling · as Countess Marie Vetsera |
| 1957 | Mayerling · as Marie Vetsera |
| 1956 | War and Peace · as Natasha Rostova |
| 1954 | Producers' Showcase (TV Series) · as Marie Vetsera |
| 1954 | Sabrina · as Sabrina Fairchild |
| 1953 | We Go to Monte Carlo · as Linda Farrel |
| 1953 | Roman Holiday · as Princess Ann |
| 1952 | Secret People · as Nora Brentano |
| 1952 | CBS Television Workshop (TV Series) · as Virginia |
| 1951 | We Will All Go to Monte Carlo · as Melissa Walter |
| 1951 | Young Wives' Tale · as Eve Lester |
| 1951 | The Lavender Hill Mob · as Chiquita |
| 1951 | Laughter in Paradise · as Cigarette Girl |
| 1951 | One Wild Oat · as Hotel Receptionist |
| 1950 | Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) · as Celia |
| 1948 | Dutch in Seven Lessons · as Stewardess / Girl With Lute |
| 2024 | Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames · as Self |
| 2023 | Film Geek · as Self |
| 2022 | Godard Cinema · as Self |
| 2022 | Gregory Peck, the Gentleman Actor · as Self |
| 2022 | Sean Connery vs James Bond · as Self - Robin And Marian |
| 2021 | King of Cool · as Self |
| 2020 | Audrey · as Self - Actress (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Nikotin - Droge mit Zukunft · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | The Last Movie Painter · as Self |
| 2019 | Very Ralph · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | The Capote Tapes · as Self - Actress, Breakfast At Tiffany's |
| 2018 | Robin Hood: The First Celebrity Outlaw · as Self - Maid Marion |
| 2017 | Audrey Hepburn, le choix de l'élégance · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | Becoming Cary Grant · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2015 | Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian · as Self |
| 2014 | Darcey Bussell's Looking for Audrey · as Self / Various (archive Footage) |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes to... · as Self |
| 2012 | Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | |
| 2011 | Bert Stern: Original Madman · as Self |
| 2009 | Hollywood on the Tiber · as Self |
| 2009 | Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me · as Self |
| 2008 | Audrey Hepburn: The Paramount Years · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2008 | |
| 2008 | The Magic of Audrey · as Self / Various Characters (archive Footage) |
| 2008 | The 80th Annual Academy Awards · as Self |
| 2006 | Billy Wilder Speaks · as Self |
| 2005 | |
| 2005 | Legenden: Audrey Hepburn · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2005 | The World's Most Photographed (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | The 100 Greatest Musicals · as Self |
| 2002 | Edith Head: The Paramount Years · as Self (screen Tests) (archive Footage) |
| 2002 | Cinemania · as Self |
| 2000 | The Audrey Hepburn Story · as Self - Unicef Footage |
| 1998 | |
| 1997 | |
| 1996 | The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful · as Self |
| 1995 | The Making of 'My Fair Lady' · as Self / Eliza Doolittle (archive Footage) |
| 1995 | Roger Moore: A Matter of Class · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1995 | |
| 1994 | 100 Years at the Movies · as Self |
| 1994 | The 66th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Memorial Tribute |
| 1993 | Audrey Hepburn Remembered · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1993 | The 65th Annual Academy Awards · as Self |
| 1993 | Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. · as Self |
| 1993 | Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1992 | The 64th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1991 | |
| 1991 | The 45th Annual Tony Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1990 | Intimate Portrait (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1990 | The 47th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1990 · as Self - Cecil B. Demille Award Recipient |
| 1988 | The 60th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1988 | Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1988 | Gregory Peck: His Own Man · as Self |
| 1986 | The 58th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1985 | Larry King Live (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1982 | Wogan (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1981 | |
| 1981 | Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1980 | Hour Magazine (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1979 | The 51st Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1978 | Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1976 | César Awards (TV Series) · as Self - Presenter |
| 1976 | The 48th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1975 | Good Morning America (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1973 | AFI Life Achievement Award (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1971 | Great Performances (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 1970 | A World of Love · as Self |
| 1968 | The 22nd Annual Tony Awards · as Self - Special Tony Award Recipient & Presenter |
| 1968 | The 40th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Nominee & Presenter |
| 1967 | The Phil Donahue Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1967 | Mondo Hollywood · as Self |
| 1967 | The 39th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1965 | The 37th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter: |
| 1965 | The Love Goddesses · as Self |
| 1963 | The 35th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1963 | Hollywood: The Great Stars · as Self |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1961 | The 33rd Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1959 | The 31st Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1956 | Tony Awards (TV Series) · as Self - Presenter / Recipient |
| 1956 | The 28th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1955 | The 27th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Nominee & Presenter |
| 1955 | Was bin ich? (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1954 | The 26th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1953 | The Academy Awards (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1952 | Today (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1950 | The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1948 | We, the People (TV Series) · as Self - Actress |