AUDREY HEPBURN ANILARDA (2022) Painting by Ayşe Keleş

Audrey Hepburn is a Hollywood star and fashion icon. She was born in Ixelles, Belgium, Brussels Region. His mother was a Dutch baroness, and his father was a wealthy English banker. Her parents divorced when Audrey was just one year old, and she never saw her father again as she stayed with her mother. When she was 10 years old, her mother married another man, and Hepburn was forced to immigrate with her new father to the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Hepburn, who had a very difficult childhood here, had a great interest in cinema and dreamed of being an actress. After the war ended, she went to London and enrolled in a ballet school, and after a while she started modeling.

Hepburn, who went to England to become an actress, was 22 when she starred in her first movie "Young Wives Tale" (1951). In this first film, Hepburn, who attracted the attention of everyone with her beauty and grace, went on a rapid rise.

After starring in films such as "Monte Carlo Baby", "Lavender Hill Mob" and "Secret People", Hepburn found great success with "Roman Holiday" in 1952. Her portrayal of a princess in "Roman Holiday" was Hepburn's first lead role and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her co-starring with Gregory Peck. This award made her a star all of a sudden and Hepburn took part in successful productions one after the other without losing her pace.

The beautiful star, who starred with the famous actor Humphrey Bogart in master director Billy Wilder's "Sabrina" in 1954, won an Oscar nomination for this movie. Later, Hepburn acted in movies like "War And Peace", "Funny Face", "Love in the Afternoon", "Green Mansions" and "The Unforgiven". Billy Wilder plays with Gary Cooper in the 1957 movie Love in the Afternoon, which is a good romance movie. Working with the most famous directors and actors of the period during this part of her career, Hepburn fascinated everyone she worked with. She was not only a beautiful and talented actress, but also an elegant lady. The beautiful star later achieved great success with films such as "My Fair Lady", "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Wait Until Dark." In 1962, she co-starred with George Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffany's and is a movie produced by veteran Director Blake Edwards. Here the tides play the inner world of a living woman.

Besides this successful acting career, Audrey Hepburn has always been on the agenda with her private life like many star actresses. Both the stormy love she had with William Holden and her troubled marriage with Mel Ferrer were closely followed by the whole world. Hepburn's named Sean from Mel Ferrer and Dr. She has two children named Luca with Andrea Dotti.

Audrey Hepburn suspended acting in 1990 and only appeared in very special projects. Audrey Hepburn was 63 years old when she died of bowel cancer on January 20, 1993, in Switzerland. Hepburn's grave is now located in Switzerland.

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