Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4,
1929 in Brussels, Belgium. Her mother, Ella van Heemstra, was a Dutch baroness,
and her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, was born in Úzice, Bohemia. After
her parents divorced, Audrey went to London with her mother where she went to a
private girl’s school. While she was on holiday with her mother in Arnhem,
Netherlands, Hitler's army took over the city. Audrey suffered malnutrition
After the liberation, she went to a ballet school in
London and later began a modelling career. In 1953 make the role in the film of
“ Rome vacations” (1957)”. This film
turned out to be a smashing success, and she won an Oscar as Best Actress.
On 25 September 1954, she married in Bürgenstock (Switzerland)
while she was preparing to record together in the film “War and Peace (1955)”. Hepburn had two children, Sean, with Mel Ferrer, born on 17 July of
1960 and Luca, with Andrea Dotti,
born on 8 February of 1970.
In 1988, Audrey became a special ambassador to the
United Nations UNICEF fund helping children in Latin America and Africa, a
position she retained until 1993. After returning from Somalia in 1992 Audrey
Hepburn developed cancer of the colon. The disease proved to be untreatable in
January 1993 she died in Switzerland at the aged of 63.
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