Audrey Hepburn, a British actress, was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1929.
Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929, in Brussels, Belgium, to J. A. Hepburn-Ruston and Baroness Ella van Heemstra. When she was eight years old, her father, a banker, abandoned the family. After the war, Hepburn and her mother relocated to England, where she continued to pursue her dance profession. She was employed in minor roles on stage and in films in both Holland and England until being discovered in 1952 in Monte Carlo, Monaco, by French author Colette. Colette insisted on having Hepburn perform the major part in her Broadway adaptation of Gigi. Although Hepburn's lack of experience was an issue at first, she slowly improved, and the show's reviewers commended her performance.
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