Informative Essay On Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn once said, "My career is a complete mystery to me. It's been a total surprise since the first day. I never thought I was going to be an actress; I never thought I was going to be in movies. I never thought it would all happen the way it did." Audrey was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium. She was the daughter of J. A. Hepburn-Ruston and Baroness Ella van Heemstra. Audrey had two brothers; Arnoud Robert Alexander Quarles van Ufford and Ian Edgar Bruce Quarles van Ufford and her nationality was British as well as her parents. Her education while growing up was quite unique. She studied ballet at Arnhem Conservatory of Music in Amsterdam and in Marie Rambert's ballet school, London. The beauty of Audrey's legacy was that she gave us the opportunity to know and appreciate her, both as an actress and devoted humanitarian, and being so she impacted our society from giving so much more than taking.
As she got older, Audrey got sent off at age five to a boarding school in England. In 1935, her parents divorced; one reason for this was that her father was a Nazi sympathiser. The divorce was very traumatic for six year old Audrey; she would later say it was the most
traumatic incident of her life.So, because of this she spent her childhood bouncing between Belgium, England and the Netherlands. After the the war, Audrey later tracked down her father and supported him financially. Then, from 1935-58, Audrey went to another boarding school in Kent. Now, Audrey’s childhood was never normal, she was always being drug to another boarding school as well as helping her parents financially and physically. This lead Hepburn to become very caring, strong, and intelligent.
Audrey’s success came from her talent as an actress in many movies.
Before becoming an actress, she moved to Holland during the war because her Dutch mother believed they would be safe in a country that had pledged to stay neutral. Hepburn studied ballet at the Arnhem Conservatory in The Netherlands during World War ll. During the war, she also helped nurse people back to health that were injured. According to author, Sara Bibel, Audrey had to eat tulip bulbs while trapped in Nazi-occupied Holland with her mother. Because of this, it led her to become stronger in the society she lived in and very intelligent. The experiences from the war made her realize what her society really was. After the war, Audrey went to London where she continued to practise ballet and worked as a dancer and
model.
Audrey Hepburn once said, “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” This meaning that she never let go of anyone, she always took care of her family and friends when they needed it. Although she had been through a lot of horrifying things in her younger days, it led her to become the graceful and strong actress that she was known to be. She had great talent but her height and malnutrition during the war meant that she was unable to become a good ballerina, and so decided to seek work as an actor.
As a model for a few years, she thought she had found her niche in life--until the film producers came calling (IMDb). In 1948, after being spotted modeling by a producer, she was signed to a big role in the European film Dutch in Seven Lessons. She then later had many speaking roles. As time went on Audrey then gained immediate prominence in the United States with her role in the Roman Holiday in 1953. This film turned out to be a success, because of this movie Audrey won an Oscar as Best Actress. This gained her enormous popularity (IMDb). In contrast to the “sex goddess” of the silver screen, Hepburn had a more wholesome beauty and an aura of innocence and class about her which gained her many fans. Audrey’s fame started to rise as she started to play roles in many different movies in the late 50s.