Audrey hepburn biography death

Audrey Hepburn (–) British actress and humanitarian. Hepburn was a major Hollywood star of the s and s, starring in classic films such as Roman Holiday (), The Nun’s Story () and Breakfast at Tiffany’s ().

Audrey Hepburn later retired from acting and served as an ambassador for UNICEF.

Short biography of Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn was born to an English father and Dutch mother in Belgium, May 4th, Her father’s job as an insurance agent meant the family often moved between England, Holland and Belgium.

Audrey hepburn biography death

In , her parents divorced; one reason for this was that her father was a Nazi sympathiser. The divorce was very traumatic for six-year-old Audrey; she would later say it was the most traumatic incident of her life. After the war, despite suffering under the Nazi occupation,  Audrey later tracked down her father to Dublin and supported him financially.

From –38, Audrey went to boarding school in Kent; in her mother moved the family to Arnhem in the Netherlands, where she th