Summary:
Provides a biography of actress Audrey Hepburn. Discusses many of the films she has been in and awards she received. Describes her work as an ambassador for UNICEF.
Edda Van- Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston was born May 4, 1929 in Belgium. Soon she was renamed and known better as Audrey Hepburn. She was the child of Baroness Ella Van-Heemstra and J.A. Hepburn-Ruston. When she was born her father said she was a "long baby" with the "prettiest laughing eyes."1 Soon in 1935 when Audrey was only six her father left the family, never to return. Soon after her father left, her life changed when she was moved out of her home and into an all girls boarding school near London. Because of her sense of independence she soon taught herself, and mastered, the technique of ballet. Not much later, World war II began.
Because of the war the Baroness decided to move the family to Holland. Not knowing how the war was moving.....
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