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30 years since the death of Audrey Hepburn

Kathryn BubienComment
30 years since the death of Audrey Hepburn

January 20th marks 30 years since the death of actress, humanitarian and fashion icon Audrey Hepburn.

Starring in a number of successful films including Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's, she won many awards throughout her acting career.

Hepburn is one of only seventeen people to have won an EGOT, an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.

A young Audrey Hepburn and her fiancee, James Hanson, take in the sights at Rockefeller Center in New York, Dec. 4, 1951. Hepburn was starring in the Broadway play "Gigi", which had a successful six-month-run. It was after "Gigi" that her film career took off, although her engagement to Hanson ended. (AP Photo/Bob Wands)

Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn, stars of “Roman Holiday,” now being filmed in Rome, Italy, Sept. 15, 1952, relax on the set playing cards during a break in the shooting. (AP Photo/Remo Nassi)

Audrey Hepburn and her husband Mel Ferrer arrive at Le Bourget Airport from London for a three-day visit to Paris on February 21, 1955. “We are still on honeymoon” said Miss Hepburn (they were married last September). In London next week, Ferrer will go on filming “Oh Rosalinda”. (AP Photo)

Mel Ferrer as Andrei Bolkonsky, center, and director King Vidor, laugh heartily, during a break in filming in Rome, Italy on August 13, 1955. Left sits Audrey Hepburn, relaxing. (AP Photo)

Decked out in 19th century Russian regalia, film stars Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda relax on the set of “War And Peace,” in Rome, Italy on Sept. 7, 1955. (AP Photo/Mario Torrisi)

Actress Audrey Hepburn, in Paris, on a break from her role in movie "Love in the Afternoon" on August 30, 1956. Hepburn plays the daughter of a Parisian private eye. In background, photo on the wall is portrait of her husband Mel Ferrer. (AP Photo)

Audrey Hepburn smiles at Rome’s Cinecitta studios, January 11, 1958, as she tested for her role in a new film, “The Nun’s Story”, taken from Kathryn Hulme’s bestseller. (AP Photo/A. Di Giovanni)

Actress Audrey Hepburn gives a big smile at the Los Angeles airport on February 2, 1959, after being brought by special ambulance plane from Durango, Mexico. The actress was injured when she was on location near Durango, Mexico, working on the movie “Unforgiven.” Her husband, actor Mel Ferrer, said she suffered fractures of two and possibly four lower vertebrae. “I think she’ll walk in three weeks,” Ferrer told newsmen. (AP Photo/Don Brinn)

Actress Audrey Hepburn and husband, Mel Ferrer, are having a lot of fun playing with snow on the grounds of King Vidor’s villa in Rome, Italy on February 24, 1956. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)

Actress Audrey Hepburn and husband, Mel Ferrer, pose with their son, Sean, in Luzern, Switzerland, maternity home on July 19, 1960. The actress gave birth to her first child on July 17. (AP Photo)

Actress Audrey Hepburn strums a guitar with her co-star George Peppard between takes on the set of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" at a film studio in Hollywood on Dec. 7, 1960. (AP Photo)

Actress Audrey Hepburn, along with her husband, actor Mel Ferrer, their 2-year-old son, Sean, and the family pooch, arrives in Hollywood, Los Angeles on May 16, 1963 after a 2-year absence from the U.S. Hepburn is in Hollywood to star in a Warner Brothers movie version of “My Fair Lady”. (AP Photo)

Miss Eliza Doolittle and professor Henry Higgins, otherwise known as Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison, are given instructions from director George Cukor (white shirt) in September 1963 before filming of a scene for "My Fair Lady" in Hollywood, USA. The setting is London's Covent Garden where the professor finds Eliza selling flowers. (AP Photo)

Actress Rachel Roberts and actor husband Rex Harrison offer encouragement as actor Mel Ferrer helps wife Audrey Hepburn dislodge a speck from her eye during the annual dinner given by the British Film Academy, at London’s Hilton Hotel, United Kingdom, on April 3, 1964. The Ferrers flew in from Spain earlier in the day to present the BAFTA awards for 1963 at the dinner and Miss Roberts was the recipient of the award for best performance by a British actress for her part in “This Sporting Life”. (AP Photo/Bob Dear)

On the film set of "How to Steal a Million" on Oct. 17, 1965 at the Studios de Boulogne in Paris, France are actress Audrey Hepburn, actor Peter O'Toole, center, and actor Fernand Gravey, left. (AP Photo/Eustache Cardenas)

Actress Audrey Hepburn leaves the City Hall in Morges, Switzerland, on January 18, 1969, with her new husband Dr. Andrea Dotti, an Italian psychiatrist, after a civil ceremony. (AP Photo)

Actresses Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn exchange greetings in a Broadway theater in New York, United States on Friday, April 9, 1976. Neither had apparently been aware of the other’s presence when Miss Taylor chanced to spot Miss Hepburn before the opening curtain at the evening performance of the play “A Chorus Line.” (AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine)

Actress Audrey Hepburn, who traveled to Ethiopia as a special ambassador for the U.S. Committee for UNICEF, reports on the relief and development work being done there by UNICEF, in New York, March 23, 1988. Hepburn is scheduled to travel to several American cities to help raise $22 million for UNICEF’s humanitarian assistance to Ethiopia. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)

Actress Audrey Hepburn at the Oscars in Los Angeles, March 30, 1992. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)


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