Audrey Hepburn by Tiffany Peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste en-us 2018-09-16 01:49:51 UTC 2026-03-16 19:29:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ring.png Parents: tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281828738 The only child born to Ella Van Heemstra (an aristocrat of Dutch descent) and Joseph Victor Anthony Hepburn-Ruston (an Anglo Irish banker of an English and Austrian ancestry).]]> 2018-09-16 02:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281828738 Colour tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281829848 Loved the colour cyan. Despite the fact that it was believed to be white, the blueish-green hue was her favourite.]]> 2018-09-16 02:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281829848 Name(s) tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281830040 Born as Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Rutson, but didn't start calling herself Audrey Hepburn until 1948. During WWII, Hepburn adopted the alias "Edda Van Heemstra", as she believed that it was safer than an English sounding name.]]> 2018-09-16 02:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281830040 Languages tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281830254 Spoke five languages:
  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Dutch
  • Italian
]]> 2018-09-16 02:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281830254 Pet deer tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281830811 Had a pet deer named Pippin. While filming "Green Mansions", the animal trainer suggested that Hepburn take home the fawn so that the animal would follow her when on set. She then fell in love and decided to keep Pippin. ]]> 2018-09-16 02:28:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281830811 Introvert tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281831078 Considered herself an introvert. 
“I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.”
]]> 2018-09-16 02:32:32 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281831078 Awards tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281831268 An EGOT winner: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony. One out of only fifteen others in the world!]]> 2018-09-16 02:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281831268 tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281831343 “Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.”]]> 2018-09-16 02:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281831343 Phobia of water tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281831603 Terribly afraid of water and drowning.
  • During the filming of "Two for the Road", for a scene that required Hepburn to be thrown into a pool, part of the film crew had to be in the water with Hepburn.
]]> 2018-09-16 02:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281831603 Phobia of horses tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281831709 Became deathly terrified of horses.
  • During the filming of "Unforgiven", she had broken her back after the horse threw her.
]]> 2018-09-16 02:39:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281831709 tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281833682 2018-09-16 03:01:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281833682 Death tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281835455 Died on January 20, 1993 of appendix cancer in Tolochnaz, Vaud, Switzerland at the age of 63.]]> 2018-09-16 03:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281835455 Female screen legend tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281835699 Ranked by American Film Institute as third-greatest female screen legend in Hollywood's Golden Age.]]> 2018-09-16 03:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281835699 Shoes tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281836694 Preferred flats over heels.
  • Having been a ballet dancer, Hepburn lived in ballet flats.
  • Was 5.7'' and naturally tall, she didn't need the extra height.
]]> 2018-09-16 03:28:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281836694 Work/Career tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281932537 Has starred in 28 movies, 6 TV movies, and other Broadway performances.

MOVIES:
  • Dutch in Seven Lessons (1948)
  • Laughter in Paradise (1951)
  • One Wild Oat (1951)
  • The Lavendar Hill Mob (1951)
  • Young Wives’ Tale (1951)
  • Baby Beats the Band (1951)
  • Secret People (1952)
  • We Go to Monte Carlo (1953)
  • Roman Holiday (1953)
  • Sabrina (1954)
  • War and Peace (1956)
  • Love in the Afternoon (1957)
  • Funny Face (1957)
  • Green Mansions (1959)
  • The Nun’s Story (1959)
  • The Unforgiven (1960)
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
  • The Children’s Hour (1961)
  • Charade (1963)
  • Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
  • My Fair Lady (1964)
  • How to Steal a Million (1966)
  • Two for the Road (1967)
  • Wait Until Dark (1967)
  • Robin and Marian (1976)
  • Bloodline (1979)
  • They All Laughed (1981)
  • Always (1989)
]]> 2018-09-16 14:17:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/281932537 tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/282002860 “Paris is always a good idea”]]> 2018-09-16 19:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/282002860 tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/282003179 “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”]]> 2018-09-16 19:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/282003179 Siblings tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/282541994 Had two half-brothers, Alexander and Ian Quarles van Ufford, by her mother's first marriage to a Dutch nobleman. ]]> 2018-09-17 18:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/282541994 Birth tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/282547130 Born May 4th, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium.]]> 2018-09-17 18:47:49 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/282547130 UNICEF ambassador tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/282554081 Hepburn became a special ambassador to the United Nations UNICEF fund that helped children in Latin America and Africa in 1988. She retained this position until 1993.

]]> 2018-09-17 18:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/282554081 Dentist tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/283560963 Audrey trained as a dental assistant before she was found by a talent scout who wanted her on the broadway play “Gigi”, her big break.]]> 2018-09-19 17:36:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/283560963 tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/283566421 "Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm. As you get older, remember you have another hand: the first is to help yourself, the second is to help others."]]> 2018-09-19 17:46:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/283566421 WWII nurse tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/283567645 Was a volunteer nurse during World War II in a Dutch hospital when she was 16 years old.
  • One of the wounded soldiers Hepburn nursed back to life was future director, Terence Young, who 20 years later directed Hepburn in "Wait Until Dark". 
]]> 2018-09-19 17:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/283567645 Dutch Resistance tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/283572955 Hepburn was an agent for the Dutch resistance.
  • Carried secret messages in her ballet slippers. 
  • Because of this her life was constantly in danger.  Once, she was suspected and rounded up by trucks.  The Nazis pulled over to the side of the road, and she barely escaped. 
  • She performed in a series of secret ballets called "black performances" to raise money for the rebels and their underground war against Hitler.
]]> 2018-09-19 17:57:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/283572955 tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/283577755 "The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair."]]> 2018-09-19 18:06:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/283577755 Survived the holocaust tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/283578567
  • Survived Nazi occupation and invasion of her town.
  • After Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, Audrey and her mother moved to the Netherlands, hoping that the Netherlands would remain neutral.
  • Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940.
  • Many of her relatives died.
  • Survived off of tulip bulbs, and suffered from malnutrition.
    • ]]>     2018-09-19 18:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/283578567     Dance tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/283583922 After WWII ended in 1945, Hepburn began ballet training under Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam. She moved to London in 1948 to take up a ballet scholarship with Ballet Rambert. She eventually dropped studying the art due to malnutrition from WWII.]]> 2018-09-19 18:17:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/283583922 Iconic dress tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/284036026 The little black dress Hepburn worn at the beginning of the "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is cited as one of the most iconic items of clothing in cinema.

    ]]>     2018-09-20 17:00:24 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/284036026     Children tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/284036884 She had two sons, after five miscarriages. Sean was born on July 17, 1960, son of Mel Ferrer. And Luca was born on February 8, 1970, son of Andrea Mario Dotti.]]> 2018-09-20 17:01:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/284036884 "PMOF" medal tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/284037712 Was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work with UNICEF.]]> 2018-09-20 17:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/284037712 Relationships and marriages tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/284039484 Married to Mel Ferrer from 1954-1968 and Andrea Mario Dotti from 1969-1982, and was in a relationship with Robert Wolders for nine years up until her dead - calling time spent with him "the happiest years" of her life, stating that they were married, just not officially.]]> 2018-09-20 17:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/284039484 "Breakfast at Tiffany's" necklace tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/284044373 One of the two only people to ever wear the authentic diamond "Breakfast at Tiffany's" necklace in 1961 for photoshoots, the first being Mary Whitehouse.]]> 2018-09-20 17:14:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/284044373 Flowers tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/284045962 Had three flower breeds named after her: a tulip, a rose, and a daylily.]]> 2018-09-20 17:17:27 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/284045962 Gardening tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/284055852 She loved to garden in her spare time. In her last years, she gladly agreed to host the PBS television series, 
    "Gardens of the World". 
    “To grow a garden is to believe in tomorrow”. 
    ]]>     2018-09-20 17:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/284055852     Pet dog tiffany_peng https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/284069019 Had a miniature Yorkshire Terrier named Mr Famous, who sadly died when hit by a car.]]> 2018-09-20 17:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tiffany_peng/tomato_paste/wish/284069019