Audrey hepburn He was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels.
She grew up in an aristocratic Dutch family, daughter of the English banker Joseph Hepburn-Ruston and of the dutch aristocrat Ella van Heemstra.
He studied in England and Holland until, due to the divorce of his parents in 1935, he settled permanently with his mother in Arnhem, Holland.
There, in Arnhem, it suffered the shortcomings of the Second World War, motivated by the German occupation.
That was the reason for the extreme thinness of the actress, a consequence mainly of the low food intake during the war years.
After the war, Hepburn and his mother moved to London, that’s where he started in dance and drama in the Marie Rambert School and worked as a model.
Later, she performed small roles in some films and worked as a showgirl in theaters. It was William wyler who proposed him for the first time to star in a comedy, which was titled “Holidays in Rome”.
Little by little, she became known as an actress and was hired to play the main role in the play. “Gigi” on Broadway, which was on the bill for six months.
Then he got the leading role in the movie “Holidays in Rome”, with Gregory peck, which made her a Hollywood star, winning the Oscar to more established actresses like Grace kelly.
From this moment on, her acting career did nothing but climb.
The second film he starred in together with Gregory peck, It was “The princess who wanted to live”, in 1953.
As one of the most popular and sought-after actresses in American cinema, Hepburn participated in numerous films co-starring the best actors of the moment such as “Breakfast with diamonds”, “Alone in the dark”, “Story of a nun” (with which he won a Oscar to Best actress), Y “Sabrina”.
In 1954 she married the actor Mel ferrer, married couple who live together for 10 years and from which their child is born Sean.
From 1967, after 15 years of success in the cinema, he began to participate in films only occasionally.
The actress decided to withdraw from the cinema to dedicate more time to her children, but she definitely does not leave her professional environment.
In 1969, he married for the second time Andrea Dotti, from this union his son is born Luca andrea. At the age of seven the marriage divorces.
Later meet Bob wolders, her third husband will share the rest of her life with him.
He resumes his career and films “Blood ties” in 1979.
Audrey hepburn dedicated her time to humanitarian aid, for this reason she was appointed ambassador of UNICEF. Their solidarity reached El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and other countries where poverty is established.
One of the things that stood out the most in his last years of life was his dedication, above his health, to the causes of AIDS or malnutrition of children around the world.
She finally had to abandon her humanitarian work due to cancer that ended her life on January 24, 1993.