24 facts about Audrey Hepburn

  1. Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929(1929-05-04) – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian.
  2. Audrey sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy on his last birthday in 1963.
  3. Born in Ixelles, Belgium as Audrey Kathleen Ruston, Hepburn spent her childhood chiefly in the Netherlands, including German-occupied Arnhem, Netherlands, during the Second World War.
  4. In 1999, she was ranked as the third greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.
  5. In 2003 in the U.S.A. came out a stamp, painted by Michael J. Deas, with Audrey Hepburn's face.
  6. Hepburn became one of the most successful film actresses in the world and performed with such notable leading men as Gregory Peck, Rex Harrison, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Peter O'Toole, and Albert Finney.
  7. In 2000, Jennifer Love Hewitt portrayed Audrey Hepburn in a television movie called The Audrey Hepburn Story.
  8. She starred as Eliza Doolittle in the film version of My Fair Lady (1964), becoming only the third actor to receive $1,000,000 for a film role.
  9. According to Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn's favourite poem was "Amore senza fine ", by Rabindranath Tagore.
  10. Audrey Hepburn won BAFTA Awards for her performances in The Nun's Story (1959) and Charade (1963), and received Academy Award nominations for Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and Wait Until Dark (1967).
  11. Audrey Hepburn had a romance with her co-star Ben Gazzara while filming "They All Laughed" in 1981.
  12. From 1988 until 1992, she worked in some of the most profoundly disadvantaged communities of Africa, South America and Asia.
  13. Her mother was part Jewish.
  14. In 1992, Hepburn was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
  15. She made her first film, "Nederland in 7 Lessen (Dutch at the Double)", at the age of 19 while living in the Netherlands.
  16. Audrey got married twice, first to American actor Mel Ferrer, and then to an Italian doctor, Andrea Dotti. She had a son with each.
  17. In 1948, Audrey appeared in an instructional film called Nederlands in 7 Lessen (Dutch in Seven Lessons).
  18. Audrey's father was a wealthy English banker and her mother was a Dutch baroness.
  19. Audrey spoke 5 languages: English, French, Italian, Dutch, and Spanish
  20. Audrey was trained as a dental assistant before making it big as an actress.
  21. In 1988, Audrey became a special ambassador to the United Nations UNICEF fund helping children in Latin America and Africa.
  22. Audrey wanted to be a prima ballerina, but was told she was too tall.
  23. As of 2005, Audrey is only one of nine performers to win an Oscar, a Tony, an Emmy and a Grammy Award.
  24. Audrey had a breed of tulip named after her in 1990.
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