![]() DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award. In recognition of her film career, she received BAFTA's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Golden Globe Cecil B. Hepburn won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. Her last recorded performances were in the 1990 documentary television series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming. After that, she only occasionally appeared in films, one being Robin and Marian (1976) with Sean Connery. In 1967, she starred in the thriller Wait Until Dark, receiving Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations. Hepburn went on to star in a number of successful films such as Sabrina (1954), in which Humphrey Bogart and William Holden compete for her affection Funny Face (1957), a musical where she sang her own parts the drama The Nun's Story (1959) the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) the thriller-romance Charade (1963), opposite Cary Grant and the musical My Fair Lady (1964). That year, she also won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine. She rose to stardom in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953) alongside Gregory Peck, for which she was the first actress to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. She began performing as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions and then had minor appearances in several films. She studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam beginning in 1945, and with Marie Rambert in London from 1948. During the war, she studied ballet at the Arnhem Conservatory, and by 1944, she performed ballet to raise money to support the Dutch resistance. With the outbreak of World War II, she returned to the Netherlands. She attended boarding school in Kent, England, from 1936 to 1939. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.īorn in Ixelles, Brussels, to an aristocratic family, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian.
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