Audrey Hepburn on screen and stage Audrey Hepburn on screen and stage Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress who had an extensive career in film, television, and on the stage from 1948 to 1993. Considered by some to be one of the most beautiful women of all time, she was ranked as the third greatest screen legend in American cinema by the American Film Institute. Hepburn is also remembered as both a film and style icon. Her debut was as a flight stewardess in the 1948 Dutch film "Dutch in Seven Lessons". Hepburn then performed on the British stage
Audrey Audrey Audrey () is an English feminine given name. It is the Anglo-Norman form of the Anglo-Saxon name "Æðelþryð", composed of the elements "æðel" "noble" and "þryð" "strength". The Anglo-Norman form of the name was applied to Saint Audrey (d. 679), also known by the historical form of her name as Saint Æthelthryth. The same name also survived into the modern period in its Anglo-Saxon form, as "Etheldred", e.g. Etheldred Benett (1776–1845). In the 17th century, the name of "Saint Audrey" gave rise to the adjective "tawdry" "cheap and pretentious; cheaply adorned" (after a fair of St. Audrey where cheap