AUDREY HEPBURN!(joana marturià)
Audrey hepburn was born in Belgica in 4th May of 1929 and Deutch-raised actress of British and Dutch ancestry. Born in Bruselas, Hepburn lived in Arnhem in the Netherlands during her chilhood and for the duration of the Second World War. She studied ballet there and then moved to London in 1948, where she studied drama and worked as a photographer's model. After making few films and appearing in the 1951 Broadway play Gigi, Hepburn played the lead role in Roman Holiday(1953), winning an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for her performance. She also won a Tony Award for her performance in Ondine (1954).
Over the next several years, she was one of the most succeful film actresses in the world, and performed with some of Hollywood's most notable leading men, including Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Gry Cooper and Fred Astaire, with whom she danced in Funny Face(1957). She won BAFTA A wards for her performances in The Nun's Story (1959) and Charade (1963), and recibed Academy Award nominations for her work in Sbrina(1954), Breakfast at Tiffany's(1961) and Wait Until Dark(1967). She also played Eliza Doolittle in the film version of My Fair Lady(1964), though the vocals were dubbed by Mrni Nixon.
Her war-time experiences inspired her passion for humanitarian work, and although she had worked for UNICEF since the 1950s, during her later life, she dedicated much of her time and energy to the organitzation. From 1988 until 1992, she worked in some of the most prfundly disadvantaged communties of Africa, South America and Asia. In 1992, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Hepburn was married twince, and had a son with each of her husbands , the actor Mel Ferrer, and the psychiatrist Andrea Dotti. From 1980 until her death, she lived with the actor Robert Wolders. She died of clorectal cancer at her home in Switzerland at the age of 63, in 20 January of 1993.
She was posthumously awarded the The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for her Humanitarian work. She received a posthumous Grammy Award for her spoken word recording, Audrey Hepburn Encanted Tales in 1944, and in the dsame year, won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Acievement for Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn, thereby becoming one of a few people to receive an Academy, Emmy, Grammy and Tony award, In 1999, she was ranked as the third greatest female star of all time bi the American Film Institute.
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