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. She is married to Scottish Indy Racing League driver Dario Franchitti. Portman in fact once dressed as Hepburn for a modelling photo shoot, while Tautou closely resembles Hepburn physically. Whenever her schedule allows, she is regularly at UK basketball games, and is frequently sought out for celebrity camera shots during televised games (much like Jack Nicholson with the Los Angeles Lakers or Spike Lee with the New York Knicks). 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. As a result she could play leading roles in films that were bound to be successful at the box office, but still required acting skills, like Double Jeopardy (1999) and Someone Like You (2001). It was aired as a mini-series in some countries, and in a truncated version on American TV. By the end of the 1990s she managed to achieve significant fame and success as an actress.

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 found further critical acclaim in Smoke (1995) and publicity in Heat (1995). Hewitt also produced the film. She had a role in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, but all the scenes she played in were cut from the final version of the film. The 2000 American made for television effort, The Audrey Hepburn Story starred Jennifer Love Hewitt as the actress. Her film debut was a small part in Kuffs (1992) and the first major role was in Ruby in Paradise (1993), a hit independent drama. To date only one biographical film based upon Audrey Hepburn's life has been attempted. She graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1990, majoring in French.

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. Her mother and sister are country singers, Naomi Judd and Wynonna Judd, respectively. 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. Ashley Judd (born April 19, 1968 in Granada Hills, California) is an American actress. 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. Kuffs (1992). Hepburn died of colon cancer on January 20, 1993, in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland at the age of 63, and was interred there. Ruby in Paradise (1993).

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. Smoke (1995). Hepburn married twice, to actor Mel Ferrer and to Italian doctor Andrea Dotti, and had two sons. Heat (1995). She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1652 Vine Street. The Passion of Darkly Noon (aka Darkly Noon) (1995). 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. A Time to Kill (1996).

In 1992, President George Bush presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work with UNICEF. Normal Life (1996). 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. The Locusts (aka A Secret Sin) (1997). 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). Kiss the Girls (1997). 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. Simon Birch (aka Angels and Armadillos) (1998).

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. Eye of the Beholder (1999). In the film Funny Face, Hepburn's mother appeared as the patron of a sidewalk café. Double Jeopardy (1999). 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. Where the Heart Is (2000). 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. Someone Like You (aka Animal Attraction) (2001).

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. High Crimes (2002). 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 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002). 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. Frida (2002). After the landing of the Allied Forces on D-Day, things grew worse under the German occupiers. De-Lovely (2004).

[1] (http://www.genealogics.org/histories/9396.text.jpg). It was never her legal name. 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. 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.

She had two half-brothers, Alexander, and Ian Quarles van Ufford, by her mother's first marriage to a Dutch nobleman. Her father appended the name Hepburn to his surname, and Audrey became Audrey Hepburn-Ruston at the same time. 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. Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 - January 20, 1993) was a Belgian-born actress.

Hepburn is considered by many in Japan as a model for feminine beauty. 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. Opera diva Maria Callas reportedly loved Hepburn's look so much that she adopted it for herself in the 1950s. Nederlands in 7 lessen (1948) - bit role; also known as Dutch in Seven Lessons.

Laughter in Paradise (1951) - bit role. One Wild Oat (1951) - bit role. Young Wives' Tale (1951) - bit role. Monte Carlo Baby (1951) - two versions of this film were released, one in English and one in French.

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).