Audrey Hepburn was born in Brussels in 1929 and lived in Europe during World War II, where she suffered from eating disorders due to lack of food. She began her career as a model in Amsterdam in the 1940s before becoming a successful actress, winning an Oscar for her role in Roman Holiday in 1953. Throughout her career she starred in many popular films but retired from acting in the 1960s to focus on family. In her later years she devoted herself to humanitarian work as a UNICEF ambassador, helping children impacted by war and poverty.

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On May 4,1929, Audrey
Kathleen van Heemstra Ruston is
born in Brussels to a Dutch
mother, Ella van Heemstra, and
British father, Joseph HepburnRuston.
She lives in Europe during
WWII.
She suffered from eating
disorders all her life because she
got used do not having enough
food during this war .

3. Ballet was a
passion of hers,
but she was too
tall to make a
career out of it.
There she
began landing
modeling
assignments,
which later led to
acting roles.

4. Her first major film (1952 ) was
Roman Holiday.
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won an Oscar Awards (Best
Actresse)

7. Sabrina (1954)

8. In 1956, War and Peace.
The Nun’s Story (1959)

9. In 1961, Breakfast
at Tiffany’s.

12. How To Steal A Million (1966)
Wait Until Dark (1967)

13. In 1976
Robin and Marian
Towards the end of the 1960s
Hepburn retired from films to
devote herself to family life,
emerging only for a handful of
films in the 1970s and 1980s.

14. UNICEF Ambassador
She devoted the
final years of her life to
UNICEF.
"I can testify to
what UNICEF means to
children, because I was
among those who received
food and medical relief
right after World War II,"
said actress Audrey
Hepburn on her
appointment as a Goodwill
Ambassador in 1989.

15. One of the best actresses of all time and revered
for being an enduring cultural icon, a tireless
humanitarian and a pretty awesome human being all
rolled into one tiny package.