The innocent princess of the cinema: Who is Audrey Hepburn?
She is an actress who dazzles not only with her shining acting but also with her grace, beauty, ladyhood, and benevolence.
Her real name is Audrey Kathleen Ruston, she was born on May 4, 1929, in Brussels. Her family was powerful and wealthy. But her parents divorced when Audrey was one year old. She once described her experiences after her father left her and her mother: "I adored my father. It was very painful to be separated from him. My father left home, condemning us to perhaps lifelong insecurity. It was the most traumatic event of my life. I remember my mother's reaction, her eyes filled with tears. I was terrified. What would happen to me? It was as if the ground had slipped from under my feet."
Her mother had a second marriage. After the Nazi occupation of Belgium, Audrey immigrated to the Netherlands with her family to escape the war.
Audrey, who was then enrolled in a boarding ballet school in London, became interested in acting and cinema. But she dropped out of ballet school because she needed to earn money and support her family; She started modeling and acting in musicals.
Attracting attention with her beauty and talent, Audrey acted in her first film "Young Wives Tale" in 1951 at the age of 22. Attracting the attention of the audience and the movie industry, Audrey took firm steps towards becoming a star, starring in the movies "Monte Carlo Baby", "Lavender Hill Mob" and "Secret People".
The young and beautiful Audrey, whose star was shining, jumped up in Hollywood with the offer she received in 1952, and gained great success and prestige with the movie "Roman Holiday". She made a strong impression with her acting and won the "Academy Award for Best Actress" with her first lead role. Thanks to this award, she rose to the rank of best actress.
She appeared in the movie "Sabrina" in 1954. The beautiful star won an Oscar nomination again thanks to this movie. Audrey gained great respect and her name in gold letters with the films "War and Peace", "Afternoon", "My Fair Lady", and "Breakfast at Tiffany"s respectively dictated to the industry.
After years of a successful career, she suspended her acting career in 1990 and started to act in very special projects just for herself.
Audrey Hepburn and UNICEF
Dedicated to helping people after hard times, Audrey was appointed as a goodwill ambassador to UNICEF in 1989. "I know very well what UNICEF means for children because I was one of the children who benefited from food and medicine aid right after World War II, I owe UNICEF an endless debt of gratitude and trust for what it did," she expressed her gratitude.
After seeing Ethiopia due to years of war, drought, and famine, he made statements about this issue in the USA, Canada and many European countries, attracted people's attention, and collected aid.
She made a series of trips to support UNICEF projects: the "polio vaccine project" in Turkey, "educational programs for women" in Venezuela, "children living and working on the street" in Ecuador, and "drinking water" in Honduras and Guatemala. Projects on "provision of literacy" and "radio literacy" in El Salvador...
Audrey Hepburn has worked as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF for 28 years.
Private Life of Audrey Hepburn
Audrey's biggest dream was to have a family. This feeling has been deep since her father left them. She wanted to have a large family and children.
She constantly came to the fore with the love she lived. For example, she wanted to start a family with her greatest love, William Holden, and she was expressing this everywhere. But due to an operation by William Holden, she learned that she could never have children. Audrey, on the other hand, chose her biggest dream over her biggest love and broke up with William.
In 1953, she met her future husband, Mel Ferrer, at a party she attended. At first sight, they both felt irresistible feelings for each other. Step by step toward a relationship, Audrey took a break from her doctor's care and moved to Switzerland with her lover because she worked hard, smoked, and lost weight fast.
Mel and Audrey lived in a chalet and got married in 1954. While their marriage and life were going well, Audrey was trying to be a mother, but in the meantime, she had countless babies. The couple, who went through difficult times, welcomed their first child in 1960 when Audrey was 31 years old. Slowly returning to her career after children, Audrey's private life did not take shape well, and she and Mel Ferrer decided to separate in 1967.
She met Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti in 1968. Falling in love again, Audrey remarried and they had children soon after, but the two parted ways in 1982 after Andrea Dotti cheated on Audrey.
After her failed marriages, she found the true love she was always looking for, the one that would make her happy. Although she no longer looks warm to marriage as she used to, she and Robert Wolders had a good relationship together until the end of her life.
Awards
She has been nominated 4 times for the Oscar, the most prestigious award in the industry. She won 2 BAFTA and 2 Golden Globe awards. She has won numerous awards, including the San Sebastian International Film Festival, the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Grammy.