Biography
Audrey Hepburn - the most famous British actress, a fashion model and a humanitarian figure. This charming, amazingly beautiful and infinitely talented woman became a role model for imitation worldwide. It is deservedly considered an icon of style and a benchmark of femininity.
Audrey Hepburn was born in May 1929 in the small town of Ixel near Brussels. At birth, she got the name of Audrey Kathleen Rough. The girl smasted in the family of the English banker John Victor Raston and the Dutch Baroness Ella Van Heetemster. Later, the father added to his last name the name Hepburn, respectively, the daughter became Audrey Hepburn-Rod.
Despite its aristocratic origin, as a child, the future actresses had to face serious difficulties. At the 6th age, the girl survived the divorce of the parents, after which she lived with her mother in the Netherlands.
Audrey's school years have passed in Arnhene occupied by the fascists. After the invasion of the Germans in the Netherlands, the girl took a pseudonym Edda Wann Heetemster, because the English sound of this name represented the threat at that time. To this day, many mistakenly consider this option with the true name of the actress.
During the war, Audrey Hepburn had to starve, which was not the best effect on her health. The correct exchange of substances from the actress did not recover even after the end of the war, in the future she suffered from anemia, diseases of the respiratory bodies, depressed.
When the war ended, he always manifested in the art of Hepburn learned in the Arnhest Conservatory and moved to Amsterdam. There she and her mother were nurses in the house of veterans. Since 1946, without throwing work, Audrey began to take ballet lessons at Sony Gaskell. Then the girl learned to dance art from the famous teachers Marie Ramrert and Vaclav Nizhinsky. Ballet Hepburn was engaged in exhaustion, but its low growth in combination with the consequences of chronic malnutrition would still not allow it to become a prima-ballerina.
In those years, the girls had to take for any black job to feed the family. Audrey Hepburn was forced to earn independently, and career actresses became the best solution.
Films
The debut actresses in the movie took place in 1948 - it was a training film "Dutch for seven lessons." The first artistic film with the participation of Audrey became the "grains of wild oats" (1951). Over the next two years, the actress performed several inconspicuous roles. She received the first major role in 1952 in the painting "Classified People".
The real success came to Audrey Hepburn after filming in the film William Whiler Roman Vacation, released on screens in 1953. The picture tells about love that broke out between the heiress of the throne and a simple American journalist, whom Gregory Pek played is one of the most sought-after actors of that time. For the role of Princess Anna Audrey received an Oscar award. In addition, the work was awarded the Golden Globe and BAFTA premiums.
After the stunning success of the Roman Vacation, the director W. Wailer removed Audrey in three of his paintings. These were completely different on the genre of films - the stage of play S. Taylor "Sabrina" (1954), the drama "Children's Hour" on L. Helmman, a comedic detective "How to steal a million" (1966).
Audrey Hepburn was filmed from other directors - she perfectly coped with the image of the gentle and trembling Natasha Rostova in the War and Peace, shot by King Vidor in 1956. I remember the viewers of the role in the film of Fred Cinneman "History of Nuns" (1959) - Hepburn's heroine, for the film, turns from the young, full forces of the girl into a dreamed and dismissed work in the Nnanechka hospital.
One of the most significant works was the role performed in the film B. Edwards "Breakfast at Tiffany" (1961). The image of Holly Golatley became truly religious for many years, and the notorious "little black dress" of the heroine is a real hit.
Special attention deserves the role of Audrey Hepburn in musicals. In 1957, the actress starred in "Funny Mordashke", where her partner for shooting was the king of the genre of Fred Aster. Next to the actor Audrey looked more than worthy.
One of the best roles of the actress performed in the screening of the Broadway musical 1964 "My beautiful Lady" George Kickor.
Hepburn was actively filmed until 1967, after which a rather long break occurs in her acting career. Return Audrey Hepburn on the screen took place with the release of the painting of 1976 "Robin and Marian". Since then, she moved to age roles and starred from occasion. The last work was the role performed by the actress in the film Stephen Spielberg "Always" (1989).
Public life
After the end of the acting career, Audrey Hepburn was appointed to the post of Special Ambassador of UNICEF. At the same time, to cooperate with the organization of the actress began in 1954: then she took part in the transmissions broadcast on the radio.
Hepburn experienced gratitude to the Foundation for its own salvation after the Nazi occupation. She devoted the recent years of his life to improving the fate of children living in poor countries.
For five years with the mission of UNICEF Audrey Hepburn, more than 20 countries of the world traveled, taking care of the disadvantaged children and their families. So, she visited Ethiopia, Turkey, Vietnam, South and Central America, Bangladesh. She was engaged in the implementation of programs for the supply of needy humanitarian aid, vaccinations, to ensure drinking water.
The work of the actress facilitated by the possession of several languages. She spoke in French, Dutch, English, Italian, Spanish.
In 1992, for activities in UNICEF, Audrey Hepburn received a presidential medal of freedom as a reward.
Personal life
During the filming of the Sabrina tape, Audrey Hepburn had romantic relations with a partner for shooting William Holden. He was married to the actress Brand Marshall, and in their family was considered the norm to start the novels on the side. In order for random ties, children who had two sons Holden did a vasectomy. Audrey got a marriage and birth of children. When the actress learned about the inability of the chief of choice, he immediately ruined the relationship with him once and for all.
His future husband, director and actor Melom Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn met during work in the formulation of "Undine". The feelings broke out between them did not prevent even the third marriage and five children of Ferrera. The wedding of actors took place in 1954, and six years later the son of Sean Hepburn Ferrer appeared at the pair. But the marriage of Meloma and Audrey existed for 14 years. The causes of divorce with spouses were voiced.
The actress painfully experienced a break with Ferrer, she even had to seek qualified medical care. The star of Hollywood was treated by the Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti, for which he was married and gave birth to Son Luke. After some time, the relationship in the family was smashed, Dotti began to change his wife. Audrey tried not to notice this, but even her iron patience was enough for a little more than ten years.
At 50, Audrey Hepburn loved again. The chief of actress was the Dutchman Robert Walders, with whom she was in a relationship until the end of his days. The marriage between Hepburn and Walders was not officially decorated, but this did not prevent their happiness.
Death
Work in UNICEF took away Audrey Hepburn a lot of strength. Numerous trips have adversely affected her health. The visit to Somalia and Kenya in 1992 became the actress last. During the trip, Hepburn felt unbearable pain in the abdomen, and African doctors strongly recommended collapse a mission in an emergency order, but she refused.
A full-fledged survey of Audrey Hepburn was only on arrival from Africa. Her tumor in a large intestine was discovered to a great misfortune. After a couple of weeks, an operation was performed, which the doctors called successful. Unfortunately, after three weeks, the actress was again hospitalized with renewed pains. It turned out that the tumor gave metastases into neighboring fabrics - the days of the actress were considered.
Soon she returned from the hospital to Switzerland, in the small town of Polyaenase, since the doctors were already powerless. In a circle of children and Wolders, she held the last Christmas, calling him "the most happy in life."
On January 20, 1993, the heart of the Great Actress was stopped forever. Audrey Hepburn died surrounded by the family - she was 63 years old.
Filmography
- "Gang with Lavender Hill"
- "Child Monte Carlo"
- "Classified people"
- "Sabrina"
- "Roman holiday"
- "Funny Mord"
- "War and Peace"
- "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
- "Blood Communication"
- "Always"