[Velvetsen]

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Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929 - 20 January 1993) was an iconic Academy
Award-winning actress, fashion model and humanitarian. Born Audrey
Kathleen Ruston in Brussels, Belgium, she was the only child of John
Victor Hepburn-Ruston, an Anglo Irish banker, and Baroness Ella van
Heemstra, a Dutch aristocrat descended from French and English kings.
Her father later appended the name Hepburn to his surname, and Audrey's
surname became Hepburn-Ruston. She had two half-brothers, Alexander and
Ian Quarles van Ufford, by her mother's first marriage to a Dutch nobleman.

Audrey attended private schools in England and the Netherlands. Her
mother was very strict and her father left the family when Audrey was young.
She later called his abandonment the most traumatic moment of her life
(years later she located her father and sent him money and wrote him many
letters). After the 1935 divorce of her parents, she was living with her
mother at Arnhem, Netherlands when the German invasion and occupation of
World War II occurred. At that time she adopted the pseudonym Edda Van
Heemstra, modifying her mother's documents to do so, because an "English-
sounding" name was considered dangerous. This was never her legal name and
this lead to a lot of confusion regarding Audrey's name and many biographies
incorrectly state her birth name as Edda.

As the war raged on Hepburn, and her family fought against the terrible
conditions as best they could, but Audrey was not physically strong enough
for her crumbling surroundings. Suffering from malnutrition, Audrey developed
several health problems. She would stay in bed and read to take her mind
off the hunger, and she danced ballet for groups of people to collect money
for the underground movement. She resorted to digging up and eating tulip
bulbs to survive the famine. The impact of these times would shape her life
and values.

After the war, Audrey and her mother moved to London, where she studied
ballet, worked as a model, and in 1951, began acting in films, mostly in
minor or supporting roles as Audrey Hepburn. Audrey was then offered a
starring role opposite Gregory Peck in the Hollywood motion picture, Roman
Holiday. Peck saw her star quality and insisted she share top billing. For
her performance, she won the 1953 Academy Award for Best Actress. Years later,
when asked by Barbara Walters what her favorite film was, Audrey answered
without hesitation, Roman Holiday, because it was the one that made her a star.

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Audrey had the reputation of being a humble, kind and charming person, who
lived the philosophy of putting others before herself. She showed this side
particularly towards the end of her life in her work for the United Nations Children's
Fund (UNICEF). New Woman magazine called Audrey the most beautiful
woman of all time, in a 2006 poll. She was ranked as the third greatest female
star of all time by the American Film Institute.

Read the rest of Audrey Hepburn's Biography HERE!

..............................Always ….. 1989
..............................Hap
..............................Love Among Thieves (TV movie) ….. 1987
..............................Baroness Caroline DuLac
..............................They All Laughed ….. 1981
..............................Angela Niotes
..............................Bloodline ….. 1979
..............................Elizabeth Roffe
..............................Robin and Marian ….. 1976
..............................Lady Marian
..............................Wait Until Dark ….. 1967
..............................Susy Hendrix
..............................Two for the Road ….. 1967
..............................Joanna Wallace
..............................How to Steal a Million ….. 1966
..............................Nicole
..............................My Fair Lady ….. 1964
..............................Eliza Doolittle
..............................Paris When It Sizzles ….. 1964
..............................Gabrielle Simpson / Gaby
..............................Charade ….. 1963
..............................Regina Lampert
..............................The Children's Hour ….. 1961
..............................Karen Wright
..............................Breakfast at Tiffany's ….. 1961

..............................SEE THE REST HERE

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only
words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in
kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going
wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow
is another day and I believe in miracles."

"I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I
couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds
of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it."

"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."

"If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures,
excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the
sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else.
It will have been enough."

"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start
absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering
- because you can't take it in all at once."

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember
you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others."

"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."

10) Because of her love for people and animals.
9) Because she has acted with the greatest actors/actresses of all time.
8) Because of her enchanting talent and creativity.
7) Because she never compromised a good story for the sake of her name
(The Children's Hour, anyone?)
6) Because of her effortless charm and grace.
5) Because of her eternal iconic status.
4) Because of her love of life.
3) Because of her charity work.
2) Because of her never wavering courage.
1) Because of her enormous heart.

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Thanks for the gorgeous new opening post, AudreyRose.

[BeautifulN]

Add me please

[NikNak]

Thanks for starting the new thread.

[Velvetsen]

No problem

[BeautifulN]

[Queen Bee]

May I be added, please?

A few things I made

[Enigma]

Queen Bee Welcome and added.

I can't see what you made.

[lisztomania]

14)SergeantPepper

can someone please change my username?

[Pasadora]

Done.

[dancingphalange]

May I be added to the list

[obthavariable]

I added you.

[dancingphalange]

Thank you

[Leo_Lover]

I absolutely ADORE Audrey Hepburn! She is my favourite classic actress & one of my favourite actresses of all time. She is also one of my favourite celebrity's. She's just AMAZING!

Can I please be added to the list?

[obthavariable]

^ Added you.

[Leo_Lover]

Thanks for the add.