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Audrey Hepburn was born to an English father and Dutch mother in Belgium May 4th 1929. During her childhood she was brought up in England before moving to Holland at the age of 10. From 1940045 Audrey experienced the difficultnesses and horrors of Nazi occupation. In peculiar she saw galore local people, including a cousin, shot for resisting the occupying forces. The occupation and lack of feed for the duration of the latter portion of the war left a lasting impression on the young Audrey. Her later involvement in humanitarian issues was partly inspired by her own experiences of suffering. After the war she continued to study ballet in London, but after a while decisive to undertake a career as an actress. This proved to be a successful move and soon she found her initial acting jobs in firstborn theater and later film. Audrey Hepburn’s big break came when she was chosen to star opposite Gregory Peck in the film “Roman Holiday”. Audrey playing the role of a young English princess captivated audiences with her elfin beauty and mesmerizing charm and humor. The film was a huge success and Audrey Hepburn was awarded an Oscar for best actress. This paved the way for a lot of other top roles in Hollywood’s big releases of the 1950s. Other remarkable films included Sabrina with Humphrey Bogart and Funny Face with Fred Astaire. As well as featuring in the huge blockbusters of the time Audrey was a versatile actress who could play a potpourri of demanding roles. For example she played the lead role of sister Luke in the film “The Nun’s Tale” – a film when it comes to a young nun whose religious vows are threatened by the Nazi occupation of Belgium. A very dissimilar role in 1961 was her portrayal of extrovert Holly Golightly in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” She said this was one of her most difficult roles as the reputation was altogether dissimilar to her natural reserve. However in spite of the troubles this role is one of the most celebrated in film history and helped to cement Audrey Hepburn’s role as one of the outstanding female actresses. After the 1960s Audrey Hepburn in general retired from making films. Instead she consecrated herself to supporting the charity UNICEF. Audrey Hepburn would often times visit troubled areas and act as a spokesperson for raising knowingness of humanitarian issues. She felt intuitively the suffering of others and remarked on one occasion of visiting an Ethiopian camp for disposed children.
“I have a broken heart. I feel desperate. I can’t stand the idea that two million people are in imminent peril of starving to death, a heap of of them children, and not because there isn’t tons of feed sitting in the northern port of Shoa.” After returning from Somalia in 1992 Audrey Hepburn invented cancer of the colon. The impairment of normal physiological function proved to be untreatable in January 1993 she passed away in Switzerland aged 63. Audrey Hepburn is widely revered for her distinctive combining of effeminate beauty, glamour and sincere concern for humanitarian issues.
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