Audrey Hepburn

奥黛丽·凯瑟琳·赫本-路斯顿（Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston，1929年5月4日－1993年1月20日），出生于比利时布鲁塞尔，是英国与美国好莱坞知名女演员。1999年，奥黛丽·赫本被美国电影学会选为百年来最伟大的女演员第3名。

奥黛丽·赫本出演几部电影后，被法国小说家科莱特看中而让她担任1951年百老汇舞台剧《金粉世界》女主角。1953年以《罗马假期》荣获第26届奥斯卡最佳女主角奖、第11届金球奖最佳戏剧类电影女主角及第8届英国电影学院奖最佳女主角。同年因音乐剧《美人鱼》获得第8届东尼奖最佳话剧女主角奖。 1994年因专辑《奥黛丽赫本的魔法故事》获得格莱美奖最佳儿童诵读专辑。 奥黛丽·赫本活跃于1950和1960年代的美国影坛，最具代表的作品有《罗马假期》、《第凡内早餐》和《窈窕淑女》等等。

奥黛丽·赫本晚年淡出影坛投身公益，1988年开始担任联合国儿童基金会亲善大使在1988年至1992年期间在非洲，南美洲和亚洲的一些最贫穷社区工作。她于1992年12月获得总统自由勋章。1993年1月20日奥黛丽·赫本因阑尾癌在瑞士家中病逝，享寿63岁。

1999年，奥黛丽·赫本被美国电影学会选为百年来最伟大的女演员第3名。
 
 

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British^[a] actress and humanitarian. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend in Golden Age Hollywood, and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.

Born in Ixelles, Brussels, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. She studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam beginning in 1945 and with Marie Rambert in London starting in 1948. She began performing as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions and then had minor appearances in several films. Hepburn starred in the 1951 Broadway play Gigi after being spotted by French novelist Colette, on whose work the play was based.

She rose to stardom in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953), alongside Gregory Peck, for which she was the first actress to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. That same year Hepburn won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine. She went on to star in a number of successful films, such as: Sabrina (1954), in which Humphrey Bogart and William Holden compete for her affection; Funny Face (1957) a musical in which she sang her own song parts; the drama The Nun's Story (1959); the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); the thriller-romance Charade (1963), opposite Cary Grant; and the musical My Fair Lady (1964), which won the Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Picture. In 1967 she starred in the thriller Wait Until Dark receiving Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations.

After that she only occasionally appeared in films, one being Robin and Marian (1976) with Sean Connery, and her last recorded performances were the 1990 documentary television series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn. She won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. In recognition of her film career, she received BAFTA's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award. She remains one of only 16 people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards.

Later in life, she devoted much of her time to UNICEF, to which she had contributed since 1954. Then, she worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America, and Asia between 1988 and 1992. In December 1992, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. A month later, she died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Switzerland at the age of 63.