What is the nationality of Audrey Hepburn? Where are you from?

Audrey katharine hepburn-Ruston (65438+May 4th, 0929- 19931October 20th), born in Brussels, Belgium, is a famous actress in British and American Hollywood.

Audrey Hepburn's father, Joseph Victor Anthony Luce, was born in the Austrian Bohemian village of Ochotz. He is an English banker of three-quarters Austrian descent. His mother, Ella van Sinstra, is the daughter of the Dutch baron and the governor of Suriname, and holds the title of Baroness. Family lineage can even be traced back to King Edward III of England.

Her father soon added her grandmother katharine hepburn's surname to his own, and Audrey Hepburn's surname was changed to Hepburn-Luston. Her mother's first marriage was to marry a Dutch aristocrat, Junk Hendrick gustav adolf Quarles van Ufford, and she gave birth to two half-brothers, Junk Arnold Robert Alexander "Alex" Quarles van Ufford and Junk Ivan Edgar Bruce Quarles van Ufford.

Although Audrey Hepburn was born in Brussels, she still holds British nationality. Because her father often travels between Belgium, England and Holland, he only goes home occasionally for reunion.

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1929 On May 4th, Audrey Hepburn was born in a family of noble descendants at No.48 Kivi Street, exel District, southeast of Brussels. Her full name is Audrey Catherine Ralston. 1935 On May 4th, Audrey Hepburn's father left her and her mother and left home. In the same year, he entered the aristocratic boarding school "Misleyden School" in Elheim, Kent, England, and graduated from 1938. 1September, 939, when the European War broke out, Hepburn followed his mother back to Holland.

From 65438 to 0939, Audrey Hepburn entered the Anam Conservatory of Music in the Netherlands to study ballet. 1940, declaring the neutral Netherlands occupied by Nazi Germany. In order to avoid the trouble caused by Audrey Hepburn's original English name, her mother tampered with her identity document and created a Dutch pen name, Eda van Hiemstra, but this name was never officially and legally registered.

When the Nazis invaded Anheng, Hepburn's mother family was rumored to be of Jewish descent, and the originally wealthy Baron family was regarded as the enemy of the Third Reich. Not only was the property confiscated by the occupying forces, but Audrey Hepburn's uncle was also executed. Hepburn and her daughter were forced to live a poor life: for several years, Hepburn had to eat tulip bulbs as food and drink a lot of water to fill his stomach.

Long-term malnutrition contributed to her thin figure in the future. Even so, Audrey Hepburn insisted on practicing her favorite ballet, even though she was so poor that she could only wear the worst wooden dancing shoes. In the middle and late World War II, Hepburn secretly raised money for the Dutch guerrillas through ballet performances. At the same time, because of her young age, she repeatedly used her child's identity to send information to the Dutch underground party.

1948 After the war, Audrey Hepburn and his mother went to London, England with 100 saved by scrimping and saving. While working there, she looked for opportunities for further study; In the same year, he entered Mary Lambert School to study ballet. After several months of training, she was told that she was not suitable to be a ballet dancer because of her age and height and early malnutrition. In order to solve the family's financial pressure, she turned to part-time modeling and participated in song and dance troupe performances.