• Name: Audrey Hepburn
  
• Birth Name: Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Rusten
  
• Height: 5' 7''
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: British
  
• Birth Date: May 4, 1929
  
• Birth Place: Brussels, Belgium
  
• Profession: actress, model
  
• Education: Arnhem Conservatory (ballet)
  
•   : Studied ballet with Sonia Gaskel and acting with Felix Aylmer
  
• Place of Death: January 20, 1993
  
• Death Date: Tolochenaz, Switzerland
  
• Death Cause: Colon cancer
  
• Husband/Wife: Andrea Dotti (psychiatrist; married in1969; divorced), Mel Ferrer (actor; married in 1954; divorced in 1968)
  
• Relationship: Robert Wolders (former actor)
  
• Father: Joseph Anthony Hepburn-Ruston (an English banker)
  
• Mother: Ella Hepburn-Ruston (née van Heemstra; a Dutch baroness)
  
• Son: Sean Ferrer (actor, producer; father: Mel Ferrer), Luca Dotti (art student; father: Andrea Dotti)
  
• Claim to fame: as Princess Ann in Roman Holiday (1953)
  

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• If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
• “I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
• “My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.”
• “I am not beautiful. My mother once called me the ugly duckling. But listed separately, I have a few good features.”
• “My own life has been much more than a fairy tale. I've had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties I've gone through, I've always gotten a prize at the end.”
• I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
• “For me, the only things of interest are those linked to the heart.”
• “It's having the best of both worlds, Hubert (de Givenchy) and Ralph (Lauren). I don't want to compare them. I just want to wear them.”
• I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.
• “I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.”
• “If I get married, I want to be very married.”
• “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”
• “I'm not a born actress, as such, I care about expressing feelings.”
• “I know I have more sex appeal on the tip of my nose than many women in their entire bodies. It doesn't stand out a mile, but it's there.”
• Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
• “I never understood what makes me so special...that was a job, not reality.”
• “My career is a complete mystery to me. It's been a total surprise since the first day. I never thought I was going to be an actress, I thought I was going to be in movies, I never thought it would all happen the way it did.”
• “There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn’t perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that’s not true. In fact, I hiccup more than most.”
• “I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it’s very true.”
• “I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.”
• “I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.”
• “I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.”
• “On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.”
• “When my marriage to Mel [Ferrer] broke up, it was terrible; more than that, it was a keen disappointment. I thought a marriage between two good, loving people had to last until one of them died. I can't tell you how disillusioned I was. I'd tried and tried.”
• I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.
• “When I was a child, I didn't even comprehend the meaning of the words film star.”
• All my life I dream of dancing with Fred Astaire and what do I get? Caked in mud.
• “My mother is Dutch, my father is Irish and I was born in Belgium, if I was a dog I'd be in a right mess.”
• The fact that I've made movies doesn't mean breakfast gets made or that my child does better in his homework. I still have to function as a woman in a household.
• “If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.”
• “It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so don't fuss, dear; get on with it.”
• “I was lost without my mother. She had been my sounding board, my conscience. She was not the most affectionate person - in fact there were times when I thought she was cold - but she loved me in her heart, and I knew that all along. I never got that feeling from my father, unfortunately.”
• “I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. It's like a bonus that my career has given me.”
• There’s a very big division between what’s in the public eye and what you feel about yourself. I never saw in myself what other people saw in me.
• “Truly, I’ve never been concerned with any public image. It would drive me around the bend if I worried about the pedestal others have put me on. And also I don’t believe it.”

• Women in Film Crystal Awards: Crystal Award (1996)
• SAG Awards: Past Life Achievement Award (1993)
• Academy Awards: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1993)
• Emmy Awards: Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming, Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn (1993)
• Film Society of Lincoln Center: Gala Tribute (1991)
• Golden Globe Awards: Cecil B.DeMille Award (1990)
• British Academy Award: Best British Actress, CHARADE (1965)
• British Academy Award: Best British Actress, THE NUN'S STORY (1960)
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Actress, THE NUN'S STORY (1959)
• San Sebastián International Film Festival: Zulueta Prize - Best Actress, THE NUN'S STORY (1959)
• Laurel Awards: Top Female Comedy Performance for Love in the Afternoon (1958)
• Golden Globe Awards: World Film Favorites (1955)
• Academy Awards: Best Actress, ROMAN HOLIDAY (1954)
• British Academy Award: Best British Actress, ROMAN HOLIDAY (1954)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role-Drama, ROMAN HOLIDAY (1954)
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Actress, ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)

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