That year, she also won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine. She rose to stardom in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953) alongside Gregory Peck, for which she was the first actress to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. She began performing as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions and then had minor appearances in several films. She studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam beginning in 1945, and with Marie Rambert in London from 1948. During the war, she studied ballet at the Arnhem Conservatory, and by 1944, she performed ballet to raise money to support the Dutch resistance. With the outbreak of World War II, she returned to the Netherlands. She attended boarding school in Kent, England, from 1936 to 1939. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.īorn in Ixelles, Brussels, to an aristocratic family, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian.
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