This year marks the 30th anniversary of Audrey Hepburn’s death. at the age of 63, from bowel cancer. An Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy winner, she has starred in countless theater, film and Broadway productions with huge success. Today she is considered one of the most important figures in cinema, and according to the American Film Institute she is the third biggest female star of all time.

Born in Iselle, Belgium, from an Irish banker father and a former baroness and Dutch aristocrat mother, she may have experienced massive success and ultimate glory during her career, but her childhood and life were not so glamorous.

Her father’s job with a British insurance company meant the family had to move quite often. During World War II, both her parents became members of the British Union of Fascists, which Hepburn herself later described as the most traumatic period of her life. When she was 6, her parents divorced and her father abandoned them. Hepburn had even spoken about the deep trauma caused by her parents’ divorce, saying: “The abandonment of us by my father was the first ‘blow’, it was a trauma that scarred me, and left me insecure for the rest of my life.”

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