Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn

May 4, 1929

Her birth name is Audrey Kathleen Hepburn. Born at number 48 Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium.
With her multinational background, she went on to speak fluent English, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian.
Her mother has Dutch descent while her father has Austrain and British descent. Her father's last name is actually Ruston.
Audrey has two half-brothers.
Around mid-1930, World War II, her father left her. Later around 1960s, she found him again and kept in touch with him.

First film: Dutch in Seven Lessons

Aug 4, 1948

(The day and month is unknown)
She played a small role as a stewardess 79 minutes film.
It was cut short to 39 minutes for English release.

First Major Film Role: Secret People

Feb 5, 1952

She played as a prodigious ballerina and performed all her own dancing sequel.
This role gave her some advatages since she danced ballet since 5 years old.

First Award: Theatre World Award

Sep 19, 1952

She won this for playing a thetre show called Gigi.

Film: Roman Holiday/ First Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award

Aug 27, 1953

This film was very succesful, it was the first film that inntroduced her to the general public.
Her role was suppose to be for ELizabeth Taylor, until the director was impressed with her screen test he cast her to lead.
She received BAFTA Award for British Actress in a Leading Role and also Golden Gold Award for Best Actress.
After this film, she starts to become extremely famous and popular.

Marriage with Mel Ferrer (and more awards)

Sep 25, 1954

Before this, she was asked to play Anne Frank in film and thetre adaption, but because she and Anne was born on the same day she finds this to be too emotional to cope.
She then won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for Ondine on Broadway.
On the same year, she receives Academy Award for Best Actress for her past movie, Roman Holiday.
This means she is one of three actresses to receive the Academy and Tony Awards for Best Actress in the same year

Birth of Sean H. Ferrer/ divorce

Jul 17, 1960

It was told when he was around seven, since his parent's relationship aren't good, they are really good at hiding it from him. But he knew something wasn't right. Later they were divorced at around 1968.

Breakfast at Tiffany

Oct 5, 1961

She won another Best Actress and the little black dress she wore became very iconic to the fashion history.

My Fair Lady

Oct 21, 1964

In this film, the singing of Audrey's role are dubbed.
She wasn't happy that her singing voice aren't mostly in it, eventhough Warner promised her there will be. Around 90% are dubbed. She was told her husky low voice doesn't suit her character. For the 37th Academy Award she didn't win anything, instead Julie Andrew won for Mary Poppins. The media tried to start a rivalry between them both, even though both of them denied it and gets along well.

Marriage to Andrea Dotti

Jan 18, 1969

Birth of Luca

Feb 8, 1970

Death of Audrey Hepburn

Jan 20, 1993