Audrey Hepburn

Teen actress Emmy Rossum, who actually played Hepburn as a child in the Jennifer Love Hewitt bio-pic, is also considered a candidate. Anderson though recent reports are that this relationship has also broken down. Portman in fact once dressed as Hepburn for a modelling photo shoot, while Tautou closely resembles Hepburn physically. S. A number of current actresses have been suggested by fans as acceptable choices should another attempt at a bio-pic be made. Among names most often mentioned are Natalie Portman and Audrey Tautou. She is currently engaged to director Paul W. It was aired as a mini-series in some countries, and in a truncated version on American TV. They have since divorced.

The film is generally seen as a disappointment, with most of the criticism being directed at the casting of Hewitt in the role, though footage of the real Audrey Hepburn appears at the very end of the picture. Several versions of the film exist. She later married The Fifth Element director Luc Besson in 1997. Hewitt also produced the film. Milla married Shawn Andrews in 1992 during the filming of Dazed and Confused; the marriage was annulled soon after. The 2000 American made for television effort, The Audrey Hepburn Story starred Jennifer Love Hewitt as the actress. Featuring many original songs, the album led to comparisons with Tori Amos and Kate Bush, though Jovovich has of late concentrated more on her acting than her musical career. To date only one biographical film based upon Audrey Hepburn's life has been attempted. In 1994, Jovovich, billed under her first name, Milla, released her critically acclaimed first musical album, The Divine Comedy.

Some sources state that Hepburn makes a cameo appearance in the 1963 Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward film, A New Kind of Love but this has not been confirmed. Most of her early appearances were in supporting or cameo roles, but by the late 1990s she was receiving top billing and entered the world of action heroes with her performances in two films based upon the video game series, Resident Evil. She also appeared in an April 1952 episode of CBS Television Workshop entitled "Rainy Day at Paradise Junction" which predates her "official" American debut in Roman Holiday. According to some biographies, Hepburn claimed to have made "several" American and British TV appearances before Roman Holiday, and a poster for a 1951 British public appearance listed her as a TV actress, but so far a copy of "Rainy Day" is the only example of this early work to have surfaced. She became a film actress in the late 1980s as a teenager and gained popularity through her appearance in Return to the Blue Lagoon which led to inevitable comparisons between her and another child model-turned-actress, Brooke Shields (who had starred in the original The Blue Lagoon years earlier). In addition to the above, Hepburn hosted the 1993 television series, Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn for PBS, a nine-episode documentary series which premiered the day of her death. She speaks Serbian, Russian, French and English fluently. Hepburn died of colon cancer on January 20, 1993, in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland at the age of 63, and was interred there. She has done extensive modeling since she was eleven-years-old.

At the time of her death she was the companion of Robert Wolders, a Dutch actor who was the widower of film star Merle Oberon. The Jovovićs later moved to London, England and in 1981, when Milica was five years old, to Sacramento, California; just seven months later they settled in Los Angeles, California. Hepburn married twice, to actor Mel Ferrer and to Italian doctor Andrea Dotti, and had two sons. Bogić, Milla's father, later joined him in Kiev where he and his sister graduated in medicine.[1] (http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.co.yu/arhiva/2000/07/18/srpski/F00071702.shtm). She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1652 Vine Street. When he feared that he could be arrested again, he escaped to Albania and later came to Soviet Union, in Kiev. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded her The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her contribution to humanity, and her son accepted the award shortly after her death. Later, communist government imprisoned him on Goli Otok.

In 1992, President George Bush presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work with UNICEF. Her grandfather Bogdan Jovović was commander of Pristina military area and later led finances in military areas of Skoplje and Sarajevo where he uncovered massive gold embezzlement; refusing to convict his friend for that, he was punished. Grateful for her own good fortune after being a victim of Nazi atrocities as a child, she dedicated the remainder of her life to helping impoverished children in the world's poorest nations. Her great-grandfather Bogić Camić Jovović was flag-bearer of the Vasojevići tribe and officer of the guard of the King Nicholas I of Montenegro; his wife's name was also Militza. From 1967 onward, after fifteen highly successful years in film, Hepburn acted only occasionally and her last role was filmed in 1988 just before she was appointed a special ambassador to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Milla's family is Montenegrin in origin, their estate being at Metohija in Zlopek near Peć. Having become one of Hollywood's most popular box-office attractions, Hepburn co-starred with other major actors such as Fred Astaire, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, Peter O'Toole, and Sean Connery. Her last name is pronounced "yo-vo-vitch".

Her performance as Holly Golightly in 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's resulted in the creation of one of the most iconic characters in 20th Century American cinema. She is an actress, musician and model (frequently referred to as a supermodel). In the film Funny Face, Hepburn's mother appeared as the patron of a sidewalk café. Milla Jovovich (born December 17, 1975) was born in Kiev, Ukraine to Serb father Bogić Jovović and Russian mother Galina Loginova Jovović. For her performance in this movie she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and over her illustrious career she would be nominated for best actress four more times. Militza Natasha Jovovich a.k.a. After being chosen to play the lead character in the Broadway play Gigi (opened on November 24, 1951), and after a successful six-month run in New York, she was offered a starring role in the Hollywood motion picture Roman Holiday, co-starring Gregory Peck. Hollywood Goes Wild benefit compilation - "On the Hill" by her band, Plastic Has Memory.

After the war, Hepburn 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; her first major performance was in the 1951 film The Secret People. The Million Dollar Hotel. Without heat in their homes, or food to eat, people in the Netherlands starved and froze to death in the streets; particularly so in Arnhem, which was devastated during Operation Market Garden. Suffering from malnutrition, Hepburn developed several health problems, and the impact of those times would shape her life and values. the peopletree sessions - released August 1998. During the Dutch famine over the winter of 1944, brutality increased and the Nazis confiscated the Dutch people's limited food and fuel supply for themselves. The Divine Comedy - released April 1994 (single: "Gentleman Who Fell"). After the landing of the Allied Forces on D-Day, things grew worse under the German occupiers. Two Moon Junction (1988).

[1] (http://www.genealogics.org/histories/9396.text.jpg). The Night Train to Kathmandu (1988) (TV). It was never her legal name. Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991). 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. Chaplin (1992). Hepburn attended private schools in England and the Netherlands, but after the 1935 divorce of her parents she was living with her mother at Arnhem when the German invasion and occupation of World War II occurred. Kuffs (1992).

She had two half-brothers, Alexander, and Ian Quarles van Ufford, by her mother's first marriage to a Dutch nobleman. Dazed and Confused (1993). Her father appended the name Hepburn to his surname, and Audrey became Audrey Hepburn-Ruston at the same time. The Fifth Element (1997). Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Brussels she was the daughter of Joseph Anthony Ruston, a British banker, and Baroness Ella van Heemstra, a Dutch aristocrat descended from French and English kings. He Got Game (1998). Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 - January 20, 1993) was a Belgian-born actress. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999).

Hepburn is considered by many in Japan as a model for feminine beauty. The Million Dollar Hotel (2000). Despite the similar career choices, Audrey Hepburn and Katharine Hepburn were neither sisters nor even closely related in any way despite occasional, and mistaken, press reports to the contrary. The Claim (2000) (formerly known as Kingdom Come). Opera diva Maria Callas reportedly loved Hepburn's look so much that she adopted it for herself in the 1950s. Zoolander (2001). Nederlands in 7 lessen (1948) - bit role; also known as Dutch in Seven Lessons. Dummy (2002).

Laughter in Paradise (1951) - bit role. Resident Evil (2002). One Wild Oat (1951) - bit role. No Good Deed (formerly known as The House on Turk St.) (2002). Young Wives' Tale (1951) - bit role. You Stupid Man (2002). Monte Carlo Baby (1951) - two versions of this film were released, one in English and one in French. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004).

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) - bit role. The Secret People (1952). Roman Holiday (1953). Sabrina (1954).

War and Peace (1956). Funny Face (1957). Mayerling (1957) - produced as an episode of the TV series Producers' Showcase and released to theatres in Europe. Love in the Afternoon (1957).

The Nun's Story (1959). Green Mansions (1959). The Unforgiven (1960). Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).

The Children's Hour (1961). Charade (1963). Paris - When it Sizzles (1964). My Fair Lady (1964).

How to Steal A Million (1966). Two for the Road (1967). Wait Until Dark (1967). Robin and Marian (1976).

Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline (1979). They All Laughed (1981). Love Among Thieves (1987) - made for television. Always (1989).