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Audrey Hepburn

British actress (1929–1993)

Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (néeRuston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British^[a] actress. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List.

Born into an aristocratic family in Ixelles, Brussels, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, England and the Netherlands. She attended boarding school in Kent from 1936 to 1939. With the outbreak of World War II, she returned to the Netherlands.^[3] During the war, Hepburn studied ballet at the Arnhem Conservatory, and by 1944 she was performing ballet to raise money to support the Dutch resistance.^[4] She studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam beginning in 1945 and with Marie Rambert in London from 1948.

Hepburn began performing as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions and then had minor appearances in several films. She rose to stardom in t

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Touching Stories of Audrey Hepburn's 'Fearless' Work with UNICEF Detailed in New Book: See the Photos

"I wanted to show the real person, not the pretty princess," says author Robert Matzen of Audrey Hepburn, whom he writes about in Warrior, an in-depth look at the star's final years and her work on behalf of the world's children with UNICEF.

"She wasn't fragile, she was fearless," notes Matzen, who learned from Hepburn's close friends, UNICEF staff, fellow humanitarian workers and military officers who witnessed her courage in war zones, that her missions were much more dangerous than previously known — and how she was driven at the end of her life to use her name and voice for all it was worth. As she told a reporter after her first trip, to Ethiopia (seen here in 1988), "I'm not interested in promoting Audrey Hepburn these days. I'm interested in telling the world how they can help Ethiopia."

Matzen also uncovered never-before-seen photos of the famous star beloved for her roles in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Roman Hol

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Hunger Heroes: Audrey Hepburn

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

You would never think the elegant Audrey Hepburn — the actress known for such classics as Roman Holiday, War and Peace and Breakfast at Tiffany’s— had suffered from hunger as a child. But she did.

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During World War II, Hepburn performed ballet to raise money in support of the Dutch resistance and volunteered at a local hospital. During the winter of 1944, the Dutch famine significantly impacted her family in the Netherlands. Roads to her town were blocked and food supplies became extremely limited. Hepburn suffered from malnutrition, acute anemia, respiratory problems and edema that impacted her for the rest of her life. Like many others, Hepburn’s family resorted to using tulip bulbs to make flour.

The day after her 16th birthday, German forces agreed to surrender. Over the following weeks and months, Hepburn and millions of others received food aid, clothing and medical supplies from the United Nations Relief and Reha