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00:38Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn was born Audrey Kathleen Rustin
00:43or Etta Kathleen Hepburn Rustin on the 4th of May 1929 in Excels, Brussels, Belgium.
00:50Hepburn's early childhood was sheltered and privileged.
00:53As a result of her multinational background and traveling with her family due to her father's job,
00:58she learned five languages.
01:00Joseph left the family abruptly in 1935 and moved to London.
01:04Hepburn later professed that her father's departure was the most dramatic event of my life.
01:09That same year, her mother moved with Hepburn to her family's estate in Arnhem.
01:14Sometime in 1937, Ella and Hepburn moved to Kent, England,
01:18where Hepburn was educated at a small independent school in Ellum.
01:22Hepburn's parents officially divorced in 1938.
01:26In the 1960s, Hepburn renewed contact with her father after locating him in Dublin through the Red Cross.
01:33Although he remained emotionally detached, Hepburn supported him financially until his death.
01:38After the war ended in 1945, Hepburn moved with her mother and siblings to Amsterdam,
01:44where she began ballet training under Sonja Gaskell, a leading figure in Dutch ballet, and Russian teacher Olga Tarasova.
01:52In 1948, Hepburn made her stage debut as a chorus girl in the musical High Button Shoes in London.
01:59More small parts on the British stage followed.
02:02She was a chorus girl in Sauce Tartare, 1949, but was moved to a featured player in Sauce Pecan.
02:08That same year, Hepburn made her feature film debut in 1951's One Wild Oat in an uncredited role.
02:15She went on to parts in such films as Young Wives Tales and The Lavender Hill Mob, 1951, starring Alec Guinness.
02:22Her next project on the New York stage introduced her to American audiences.
02:27At the age of 22, Audrey Hepburn went to New York to star in the Broadway production of Gigi.
02:34Set in Paris around 1900, the comedy focuses on the title character, a young teenage girl on the brink of adulthood.
02:41Her relatives try to teach her ways of being a courtesan, to enjoy the benefits of being with a wealthy man without having to marry.
02:48They try to get a friend of the family, Gaston, to become her patron, but the young couple has other ideas.
02:54Stepping away from lighthearted fare, Hepburn co-starred in the film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace with her husband Mel Ferrer and Henry Fonda in 1956.
03:05Three years later, she played Sister Luke in The Nun's Story, which earned her an Academy Award nomination.
03:11The film focused on her character's struggle to succeed as a nun.
03:15A review in Variety said, quote,
03:17Audrey Hepburn has her most demanding film role, and she gives her finest performance, end quote.
03:22Following that stellar performance, she went on to star in the John Huston-directed western The Unforgiven with Burt Lancaster.
03:30That same year, her first child, a son named Sean, was born.
03:34Returning to her glamorous roots, Hepburn set new fashion standards as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's, which was based on a novella by Truman Capote.
03:43She played a seemingly lighthearted but ultimately troubled New York City party girl, who gets involved with the struggling writer, played by George Pappard.
03:51Hepburn received her fourth Academy Award nomination for her work on the film.
03:55In her later years, acting took a backseat to her work on behalf of children.
04:00She became a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF in the late 1980s.
04:04Traveling the world, Hepburn tried to raise awareness about children in need.
04:08Making more than 50 trips, Hepburn visited UNICEF projects in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America.
04:15She won a special Academy Award for her humanitarian work in 1993, but she did not live long enough to receive it.
04:22Hepburn died on January 20, 1993, at her home in Tullochina, Switzerland, after a battle with colon cancer.
04:30Her work to help children around the world continues.
04:33Her sons, Sean Ferrer and Luca Doughty, along with her companion Robert Wolders,
04:38established the Audrey Hepburn Memorial Fund at UNICEF to continue Hepburn's humanitarian work in 1994.
04:45It is now known as the Audrey Hepburn Society at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.
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