Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston, later known as Audrey Hepburn, was born in Brussels, Belgium on May 4th, 1929. She was the daughter of an English banker and a Dutch baroness. Her parents, Joseph and Ella, were part of the British Union of Fascists, due to this; she spent much of her youth touring the continent with other members of this organization. She traveled through Germany with the notorious Mitford Sisters, British aristocrats went to jail for their public support of Nazi. Joseph and Ella Hepburn divorced when Audrey was very young. She was attending school in London when the Second World War broke out. Ella returned to Germany and attended Nazi rallies and wrote about those rallies in articles for a fascist magazine called The Blackshirt.
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A French writer, Colette, discovered her while in Monaco shooting a movie. According to History.com, Colette insisted that Hepburn should be casted as a main character in the Broadway version of her book Gigi. Audrey made her Broadway debut in 1951 (History.com). In 1953, due to her success in Gigi, she was cast as the lead in the film Roman Holiday. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for that film and won a Tony that same year for her starring role in Ondine. “Over the next decade, Hepburn proved herself more than a math for Hollywood’s top leading men in such hits as Sabrina (1954, with William Holden and Humphrey Bogart), Funny Face (1957, with Fred Astaire) and Love in the Afternoon (1957, with Gary Cooper)” (History.com). Her role in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), earned her fourth Oscar nomination for Best Actress. She earned her spot as a star in the 1964 film, My Fair Lady, as Eliza Doolittle, beating out Julia Andrew who played that role in the original musical. She left her career as a full-time actor after being nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Wait Until Dark. She does appear sporadically in various movies. She spent most of her time at her home in Switzerland. She and her then-husband, Mel Ferrer, had two sons then divorced in 1968. She married an Italian psychiatrist, Andrea Dotti, and had one son with him the following year. In
A French writer, Colette, discovered her while in Monaco shooting a movie. According to History.com, Colette insisted that Hepburn should be casted as a main character in the Broadway version of her book Gigi. Audrey made her Broadway debut in 1951 (History.com). In 1953, due to her success in Gigi, she was cast as the lead in the film Roman Holiday. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for that film and won a Tony that same year for her starring role in Ondine. “Over the next decade, Hepburn proved herself more than a math for Hollywood’s top leading men in such hits as Sabrina (1954, with William Holden and Humphrey Bogart), Funny Face (1957, with Fred Astaire) and Love in the Afternoon (1957, with Gary Cooper)” (History.com). Her role in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), earned her fourth Oscar nomination for Best Actress. She earned her spot as a star in the 1964 film, My Fair Lady, as Eliza Doolittle, beating out Julia Andrew who played that role in the original musical. She left her career as a full-time actor after being nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Wait Until Dark. She does appear sporadically in various movies. She spent most of her time at her home in Switzerland. She and her then-husband, Mel Ferrer, had two sons then divorced in 1968. She married an Italian psychiatrist, Andrea Dotti, and had one son with him the following year. In