Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in Ixelles, Belgium. When her life started Audrey Hepburn was honest to God royalty as her father was a wealthy English banker and her mother was a Dutch Baroness. Audrey Hepburn was born into a world of wealth and privilege and she would learn, as the years went by, that anything in life can be fleeting as slowly everything she knew was taken away from her until she was left with almost nothing. Eventually her parents divorced and Audrey Hepburn found herself studying in a private school in London, England where she had moved with her mother after the divorce. There was a brief stay in London and then soon her mother moved them back to the Netherlands where once again Audrey Hepburn was enrolled in private schools and continued to enjoy a life of privilege. But while vacationing with her mother in Arnhem, Holland Audrey Hepburn's life would take a drastic change and she would soon learn what loss is as the Nazi war machine moved in to Arnhem and took over the town. There was no leaving for Audrey Hepburn and her mother and the two soon lost everything and fell on hard times while the Nazis occupied the Netherlands. Audrey Hepburn was eating tulip bulbs to survive and once she even admitted to trying to find a way to use grass to make bread. She was getting malnourished and her health was failing and her spirits were suffering too as she battled depression for years.

After the war was over Audrey Hepburn and her mother went back to London to put their lives back together and Audrey started to take ballet lessons. She had a natural grace and elegance and soon she was working as a model and she had really thought that she had found her calling when modeling seemed to natural to her. In 1948 she was discovered modeling by a movie producer who signed her to a bit part in a small movie. She was in love with acting and soon she realized that acting is what she really wanted to do. She tried movie roles in Europe but nothing seemed to appeal to her so she made her way over the ocean to Hollywood where she had decided she would give a movie career a real try. In 1953 she was given the role of Princess Ann in Roman Holiday and she promptly won the Oscar that year for best actress in a leading role. After that she would go on to be nominated for an Oscar five more times and then in 1993, shortly after her death, the Academy presented her son with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. She was one of the most talented and loved actresses to ever be presented on the screen but her past would never leave her.

In 1959 Audrey Hepburn was offered the lead role in The Diary Of Anne Frank but she turned it down. She had seen real Nazi oppression. She had seen people randomly executed in the streets and she had seen the Jews piled into freight cars and taken to concentration camps. Audrey Hepburn had not desire to relive those memories so she turned the role down. She was also sometimes haunted by her last name as she was preceded by almost 20 years in Hollywood by Katherine Hepburn who was an acknowledged super star by the time Audrey Hepburn arrived in Los Angeles. The problem for Audrey was that the two Hepburn's were not related and it was something she would answer questions about her whole career.