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Ancestry
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Audrey Hepburn was born Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston in Brussels, Belgium in 1929. Her father, Joseph Anthony Hepburn-Ruston was an English banker and her mother, Ella Hepburn-Ruston was a Dutch baroness. Hepburn grew up in England but moved to the Netherlands with her mother after the beginning of World War II. She and her mother spent the war years in a Nazi-occupied town where Hepburn attended local public school and receiving ballet training. In 1949, she made her London stage debut and in 1951 she starred in the Broadway production of Gigi. Her 1953 performance opposite Gregory Peck in the film Roman Holiday earned her a Best Actress Oscar and made her an international star. In addition to a career that spanned 40 years, Hepburn was an activist for charitable causes such as UNICEF.
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Barchman Wuijtiers, Bonn, Bouwens, Brender A Brandis, Clifford, De Beaufont, De Beaufort, De Keijser,
De Vriese, De
Wildt, De Witte, Godin, Hepburn, Hepburn-Ruston, Hooft, Mammuchet Van Hoederinge, Muljssart, Ockersse, Schimmelpenninck, Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oije, Schinnelpennick Van Der Oije, Stoop, Van Amama, Van Asbeck, Van Bienema, Van Der Goes, Van Gelre,
Van Haersolte, Van Haren, Van Heemstra, Van Hogendorp, Van Idsinga, Van Kreschmar, Van Marselis, Van Middachten, Van Pallandt, Van Serooskerken, Van Westrenen, Van Westrhenen, Van Wijnbergen, Voet Van Winsen
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Prepared by Rhonda
R. McClure | November 14, 2002 | E-mail: celebritrees@genealogy.com
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