After the war, Hepburn moved to London, where he studied at the ballet school (it was maintained when the mother). When it became clear that it will never Principal dancer, she began work as a model, and then act in films, mostly as an extra or in the secondary and third roles. In 1951 appeared the first time in a forefront role in the movie Monte Carlo Baby. In the same year he appeared on Broadway in the play Gigi, and for this role received the award for Best Actress year. After six months, a very successful season in New York, Hepburn starred with Gregory Peck in the film Roman Holiday. She received an Oscar for this role. In her later career was still four times nominated in the category "Best Actress". Its creation in Breakfast at Tiffany's is one of the best known and most famous roles in the history of American cinema. Being one of the most popular stars of his era Hepburn appeared with actors such as Fred Astaire, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, Peter O'Toole, and Sean Connery.

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Hepburn was married twice, her first husband was an American actor Mel Ferrer, the second Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti. She had two sons (a first pregnancy miscarried): Sean Ferrer (born 1960) from his first marriage and Dottiego Luca (born 1970) from the second connection. Godfather to her oldest son is the novelist AJ Cronin, who lived near Hepburn in Lucerne.

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Since 1967, Hepburn gave up her acting career by deciding to be very sporadic and concentrated on working as a special ambassador for UNICEF. Recalling his own experiences in World War II Hepburn devoted to humanitarian work, in order to help starving children in the poorest countries in the world. For his work was received on 11 December 1992, at the hands of President George W. Bush, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (Presidential Medal of Freedom). Posthumously awarded the Jean Hersholt Award for humanitarian work.
She died in 1993 of colon cancer. She was buried in Tolochenaz, Switzerland.

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In 2000 television movie history was Audrey Hepburn (The Audrey Hepburn Story) with Jennifer Love Hewitt in the lead role.

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After the war, Hepburn moved to London, where he studied at the ballet school (it was maintained when the mother). When it became clear that it will never Principal dancer, she began work as a model, and then act in films, mostly as an extra or in the secondary and trzecioplanowych roles. In 1951 appeared the first time in a forefront role in the movie Monte Carlo Baby. In the same year he appeared on Broadway in the play Gigi, and for this role received the award for Best Actress year. After six months, a very successful season in New York, Hepburn starred with Gregory Peck in the film Roman Holiday. She received an Oscar for this role. In her later career was still four times nominated in the category "Best Actress". Its creation in Breakfast at Tiffany's is one of the best known and most famous roles in the history of American cinema. Being one of the most popular stars of his era Hepburn appeared with actors such as Fred Astaire, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, Peter O'Toole, and Sean Connery.

Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 in Ixelles, Belgium, died. January 20, 1993 in Tolochenaz, Switzerland). Actress and humanitarian activist, Anglo-Dutch origin. She was the daughter of a British banker and a Dutch aristocrat descended. During World War II, lived in occupied Holland. Because of the brutal German occupation, Hepburn, like most Dutch people, suffering from hunger - especially since 1944 (seriously ill, her mother, exchanged cigarettes to penicillin). In that time she was very malnourished which resulted in the emergence of many health problems, had a significant impact on her later life.

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