Audrey Hepburn

 Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 - - 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognised as both an icon of fashion and film, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-highest-rated female screen legend of the Classical Hollywood cinema and admitted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of FameBorn in Ixelles, Brussels to an wealthy family. Hepburn was a part of her early life in Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. She trained in ballet with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam beginning in 1945. She also studied together with Marie Rambert in London from 1948. She began her career as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions and was later seen in minor roles in various films. She became famous in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953) alongside Gregory Peck, for which she was the first actress to be awarded an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award, and the BAFTA Award for a single performance. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead actress in a play in the same year for Ondine. In 1967, she appeared in the film thriller Wait Until Dark, receiving Academy Award, Golden Globe as well as BAFTA nominations. After that, she only occasionally was in films, the most notable being Robin and Marian (1976) together with Sean Connery. The last time she appeared was in the documentary TV series in the year 1990 Gardens of the World, that was co-produced by Audrey Hepburn. For this she received an Primetime Emmy Award as Outstanding Individual Achievement in the field of Informational Programming.