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Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 - January 20, 1993) was a Belgian-born American movie actress. Born Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston in Antwerp, Belgium, daughter of Joseph Anthony Hepburn-Ruston, a British banker, and Baroness Ella van Heemstra, a Dutch aristocrat descended from French and English kings. She had two half-brothers, Alexander and Ian Quarles van Ufford, by her mother's first marriage to a Dutch nobleman. Hepburn attended private schools in England and the Netherlands, but after the 1935 divorce of her parents she was living with her mother in the Netherlands when the German invasion and occupation of World War II occurred.
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Audrey Hepburn was an Academy Award winning actress who was recognized as a star all around the world; but she found the most fulfillment in her humanitarian work. Audrey Hepburn had been involved in many charitable causes, but in 1988 when she was chosen as the official spokesperson for UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, she found her true calling. She made over 50 trips to countries all around the world, seeing first hand the conditions children in war-torn and disaster-ridden areas had to endure. Then she advocated on their before governments, special assemblies at the United Nations, and to the press, eager to cover this international star.
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Peerless in her screen presence, actress Audrey Hepburn had huge brown eyes, a husky voice, and a dancer's gracefulness - qualities that seduced the entire moviegoing world. While Hepburn was never an actress with a wide range and had very little acting training, she was never boring. According to People, Humphrey Bogart once said of her style, "With Audrey it's kind of unpredictable. She's like a good tennis player - she varies her shots." Certainly every fan has chosen his or her favorite Hepburn moment; for some its Hepburn's regal entrance in the denouement of My Fair Lady, with her towering hairdo and sweetly serious expression, while others may prefer her playful dance sequence in a book store in Funny Face. In any case, Hepburn's most successful movies capitalized on her childlike qualities, pairing her with an older actor whose character was eventually disarmed by her inestimable charm.
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Audrey Hepburn had STYLE. She ALWAYS looked good, whatever she did. In Roman Holiday she was stunningly beautiful and when she had her hair cut she looked more beautiful. She was unique.
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According to this Vanity Fair feature, lifelong friends Audrey Hepburn and French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy met during the making of Sabrina. Hepburn, who would later favor Givenchy as her signature brand in both her movies and her real life, was relatively unknown in 1953 when she flew to Paris to enlist the then up-and-coming Givenchy to design her wardrobe for Sabrina. Like her character at the beginning of the film, Hepburn was not used to wearing high fashion clothing, but both she and Sabrina would become sophisticates. Though Edith Head was credited as the film's costume designer and even took home an Oscar for her work, it was Givenchy, in collaboration with Hepburn, who created the film's most iconic looks.
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Audrey Hepburn is ever-engaging as Truman Capote's vivacious yet vulnerable heroine, Holly Golightly, "a real phony" who's tossed between hobnobbing amongst New York's party set and settling down with her new love, neighbor George Peppard. Co-stars Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam and Mickey Rooney; directed by Blake Edwards. Henry Mancini's score includes the Oscar-winning "Moon River." 114 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; audio commentary; "making of" documentary; featurettes; theatrical trailer.
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