Audrey Hepburn on screen and stage

Hepburn as Princess Ann in Roman Holiday (1953)

Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress who had an extensive career in film, television, and on the stage from 1948 to 1993. Considered by some to be one of the most beautiful women of all time,^[1][2] she was ranked as the third greatest screen legend in American cinema by the American Film Institute.^[3] Hepburn is also remembered as both a film and style icon.^[4][5][6] Her debut was as a flight stewardess in the 1948 Dutch film Dutch in Seven Lessons.^[7] Hepburn then performed on the British stage as a chorus girl in the musicals High Button Shoes (1948), and Sauce Tartare (1949). Two years later she made her Broadway debut as the title character in the play Gigi. Hepburn's Hollywood debut as a runaway princess in William Wyler's Roman Holiday (1953) opposite Gregory Peck made her a star.^{[4][8][9][10]} For her performance she received the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.^[11][12][13] In 1954 she played a chauffeur's daughter caught in a love triangle in Billy Wilder's romantic comedy Sabrina opposite Humphrey Bogart and William Holden.^[14][15] In the same year Hepburn garnered the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for portraying the titular water nymph in the play Ondine.^[16][17]

Her next role was as Natasha Rostova in the 1956 film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. In 1957 Hepburn starred with Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier in Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon, and with Fred Astaire in the musical film Funny Face. Two years later she appeared in the romantic adventure film Green Mansions, and played a nun in The Nun's Story. In 1961, Hepburn played café society girl Holly Golightly in the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's, and as a teacher accused of lesbianism in Wyler's drama The Children's Hour opposite Shirley MacLaine.^[17][18] Two years later she appeared opposite Cary Grant in the romantic mystery film Charade. Hepburn followed this by starring in the romantic comedy Paris When It Sizzles opposite William Holden, and as Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in the musical film My Fair Lady (both in 1964).^[17] In 1967, she played a blind woman menaced by drug dealers in her own home in the suspense thriller Wait Until Dark which earned her a Best Actress Oscar nomination.^[17][19] Nine years later, Hepburn played Maid Marian opposite Sean Connery as Robin Hood in Robin and Marian.

Her final film appearance was a cameo as an angel in Steven Spielberg's Always (1989).^[19] Hepburn's final screen role was as the host of the television documentary series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn (1993) for which she posthumously received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming.^[10][20][21] In recognition of her career, Hepburn earned the Special Award from BAFTA, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award.^{[22][23][24][25]}

Film

Hepburn in Roman Holiday (1953)

Hepburn (left) opposite William Holden (right) in Sabrina (1954)

List of film credits

Title	Year	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
Dutch in Seven Lessons	1948	Stewardess	Dutch: Nederlands in Zeven Lessen	[26]
One Wild Oat	1951	Hotel receptionist		[26]
Laughter in Paradise	1951	Cigarette girl		[27]
Lavender Hill Mob, TheThe Lavender Hill Mob	1951	Chiquita		[28]
Young Wives' Tale	1951	Eve Lester		[29]
Monte Carlo Baby	1952	Linda Farrell Melissa Farrell (French version)	Simultaneously filmed in both English and French. French: Nous irons à Monte-Carlo	[30] [31] [32]
Secret People	1952	Nora Brentano		[33]
Roman Holiday	1953	Princess Ann		[34]
Sabrina	1954	Sabrina Fairchild	UK: Sabrina Fair	[35] [36]
War and Peace	1956	Natasha Rostova		[37]
Funny Face	1957	Jo Stockton		[38]
Love in the Afternoon	1957	Ariane Chavasse		[39]
Green Mansions	1959	Rima		[40]
Nun's Story, TheThe Nun's Story	1959	Sister Luke		[17]
Unforgiven, TheThe Unforgiven	1960	Rachel Zachary		[17]
Breakfast at Tiffany's	1961	Holly Golightly		[17]
Children's Hour, TheThe Children's Hour	1961	Karen Wright		[17]
Charade	1963	Regina Lampert		[41]
Paris When It Sizzles	1964	Gabrielle Simpson		[42]
My Fair Lady	1964	Eliza Doolittle		[17]
How to Steal a Million	1966	Nicole Bonnet		[17]
Two for the Road	1967	Joanna Wallace		[43]
Wait Until Dark	1967	Susy Hendrix		[44]
Robin and Marian	1976	Maid Marian		[45]
Bloodline	1979	Elizabeth Roffe		[46]
They All Laughed	1981	Angela Niotes		[47]
Always	1989	Hap	(Last appearance)	[48]

Television

Hepburn (right) and Mel Ferrer (left) in the television episode Mayerling (1957)

List of television credits

Title	Year	Role	Channel	Notes	Ref(s)
Saturday Night Revue	1950	Unknown	BBC Television Service	3 episodes	[49] [50] [51]
Sunday Night Theatre	1951	Celia	BBC Television Service	Episode: "The Silent Village"	[52]
CBS Television Workshop	1952	Virginia Forsythe	CBS	Episode: "Rainy Day at Paradise Junction"	[53] [54]
Producers' Showcase	1957	Mary Vetsera	NBC	Episode: "Mayerling"	[55]
A World of Love	1970	Herself	CBS	UNICEF special	[56]
Love Among Thieves	1987	Caroline DuLac	ABC	Television film	[57] [58]
American Masters	1988	Herself	PBS	Episode: "Directed by William Wyler" Documentary	[59]
Gregory Peck: His Own Man	1988	Herself	Cinemax	Documentary	[60]
Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn	1993	Herself	PBS	Documentary series	[61]

Stage

List of theatre credits

Title	Year(s)	Role	Theatre	Notes	Ref(s)
High Button Shoes	1948–49	Chorus girl	London Hippodrome		[62]
Sauce Tartare	1949	Chorus girl	Cambridge Theatre		[17] [63]
Sauce Piquante	1950	Featured player	Cambridge Theatre		[17]
Gigi	1951	Gigi	Fulton Theatre	24 November 1951 – 31 May 1952	[64]
Ondine	1954	Ondine	46th Street Theatre	18 February 1954 – 3 July 1954	[65]

See also

• List of awards and honours received by Audrey Hepburn

References

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Bibliography

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• Spoto, Donald (9 October 2007). Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn. Random House. ISBN 978-0-09-948704-3.
• Woodward, Ian (31 May 2012). Audrey Hepburn: Fair Lady of the Screen. Ebury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4481-3293-5.

External links

• Audrey Hepburn at the Internet Movie Database