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Her background Audrey Hepburn was born in Brussels, Belgium, on May 4, 1929, the daughter of J. A. Hepburn -Ruston and Baroness Ella van Heemstra. Her father, a banker, deserted the family when she was only eight years old. Hepburn was attending school in England when the Germans invaded Poland at the start of World War II (1939–45; a war fought mostly in Europe, with Germany, Italy, and Japan on one side and the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union on the other ... The beautiful Audrey Hepburn starred in 31 movies and films, in a long career spanning the 1940s to the 1980s. Her versatile talent brought stories alive, from musicals (My Fair Lady), to action thrillers (Charade), to romantic comedies (Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Sabrina), to dramas (Roman Holiday). These films have become some of the most iconic classic movies of Old Hollywood. Audrey Hepburn lit up the silver screen opposite legends such as Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Gregory Peck ... Audrey Kathleen Ruston (later, Hepburn -Ruston [6]) was born on 4 May 1929 at number 48 Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. [7] She was known to her family as Adriaantje. [8] She was raised Protestant and remained one throughout her life. [9] Hepburn 's grandfather Aarnoud van Heemstra was the governor of the colony of Dutch Guiana. Hepburn 's mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra (1900–1984), was a Dutch noblewoman. She was the daughter of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra ... ¶ Childhood Audrey Hepburn was born in Ixelles, Belgium, on May 4, 1929, to an aristocratic family, and spent a privileged childhood between Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. Her mother, a very strong figure all over her life, was Baroness Ella van Heemstra, a Dutch noblewoman. Her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, was a British man born in Austria-Hungary.
