Audrey Hepburm: "Angel´s Face"

         

AUDREY HEPBURM

Audrey Hepburm was born in 1929 in Belgium. She grow up between Belgium, England and the Low Countries. She studied in a private´s academy in Kent, England, for  three years.

Her parents got divorced in 1935 and she moved with her mother and two stepbrothers to Holand, because they thought that there were in a segurity places, far to the Nazi´s army.

In Holand, Audrey went to Arnhen´s conservatory and studied piano and classic ballet. She spoke English, French, Duch an Italian, and some German and Spanish too.

But in 1940, the German´s army invaded Holand and Audrey and his family changed their names. Her new name was Edda Van Heemstra. She stopped the studies, but she danced in secret. She gave the money that she earned to Holand´s resistance.

Audrey had a lot of hungry and cold, and she looked a inocent people  dying. She didn´t like to remenber the war, an when she could, she painted to forgot.

In 1945 finished the war and se moved to Ansterdan and then to London. There she studied dance, bat she needed earn money: She thought begin to act.

Her first important film was “Holidays in Roma”. She was nominated to the Oscars for her films: “Breakfast at Tiffany´s”, “Nun´s history” and “Sabrina”. In 1954, she won the Oscar and The Glove´s Gold to the best actress in “Holidays in Roma “ film.

Audrey got married two times: First with Mel Ferrer; he was an actor too; they has a son, Sean. Then, she got married with Andrea Dotti; he was an important italian´s doctor; they has a son, Luca.

She left the cinema in 1989 and them collaborated with UNICEF until she died.

She died in Swilzerland in 1993 when she was 63. But three mounths before she died, when she knew that stayed very bad for the cancer, she went to Somalia with UNICEF to needed the children.

She was a beautifull woman in her face and heart. The word called her “Angel´s face”.

I go to remenber her all my live.