Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was an Anglo-Dutch actress, fashion model, and humanitarian. Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Brussels, Belgium, she was the only child of Joseph Anthony Ruston, a Slovakian-born Anglo-Irish banker, and Baroness Ella van Heemstra, a Dutch aristocrat descended from French and English kings. Her father appended the name Hepburn to his surname, and Audrey became Audrey Hepburn-Ruston at the same time. She had two half-brothers, Alexander and Ian Quarles van Ufford, by her mother's first marriage to a Dutch nobleman.

Filmography

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• Always (1989)
• Love Among Thieves (1987) - made for television
• They All Laughed (1981)
• Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline (1979)
• Robin and Marian (1976)
• Wait Until Dark (1967)
• Two for the Road (1967)
• How to Steal a Million (1966)
• My Fair Lady (1964)
• Paris - When it Sizzles (1964)
• Charade (1963)
• The Children's Hour (1961)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
• The Unforgiven (1960)
• Green Mansions (1959)
• The Nun's Story (1959)
• Love in the Afternoon (1957)
• Mayerling (1957) - produced as an episode of the TV series Producers' Showcase and released to theatres in Europe.
• Funny Face (1957)
• War and Peace (1956)
• Sabrina (1954)
• Roman Holiday (1953)
• The Secret People (1952)
• The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) - bit role
• Monte Carlo Baby (1951) - released in both the English and French languages
• Young Wives' Tale (1951) - bit role
• One Wild Oat (1951) - bit role
• Laughter in Paradise (1951) - bit role
• Nederlands in 7 lessen (1948) - bit role; also known as Dutch in Seven Lessons.

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 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 "Rainy Day" is the only example of this early work to have surfaced; a copy of this production exists in the Museum of Radio and Television archives in Beverly Hills, California.

Related Topics:
1993 - Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn - PBS - 1952 - CBS Television Workshop - Museum of Radio and Television - Beverly Hills, California

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Some sources (most notably the user-edited Internet Movie Database) erroneously state that Hepburn has a cameo appearance in the 1963 Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward film, A New Kind of Love, but this was debunked by several reviewers when the film was released to DVD in 2005.

Related Topics:
Internet Movie Database - Paul Newman - Joanne Woodward - A New Kind of Love - 2005

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