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牛津 9AU5 Listen, Hobo, youre very lucky. you know. Why Because Im your friend. Do you know who I am? Tomorrows TV superstar! You? A TV superstar? Why dont you stop daydreaming? You should be more Realistic. Youre right. Im too good for TV I should be in Hollywood instead. Audrey Hepburn is one of Hollywood’s all-time greatest actresses. She is famous not only in the USA, but also in other parts of the world. When Hepburn died in 1993, the world mourned the loss of a great beauty, a great actress and a great humanitarian. 0 Hepburn was born in Belgium on 4th May 1929. She began taking ballet lessons at a very young age. She loved dancing and her dream was to become a successful ballet dancer. She had put most of her effort into ballet training before she entered the film industry. She had also been a model before she became 1 a Hollywood superstar. In 1951, while acting in Monte Carlo Baby, Hepburn met the famous French writer Colette. Hepburn’s beauty and charm attracted the writer’s attention. Colette wrote a novel called Gigi. The novel was later made into a play. Colette insisted that Hepburn was the perfect girl to play the lead role in the play. That event marked the beginning of Hepburn’s successful career. Shortly after, Hepburn was chosen to play the lead role of a young princess in the Hollywood film Roman Holiday. It was a big success and Hepburn became famous immediately. She won an Oscar for Best Actress for her role in this film. Later, she acted in the play Ondine and won a Tony Award for it. During her lifetime, Hepburn earned four more Oscar nominations. Some of the well-known films that Hepburn acted 11 in include Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffanys and My Fair Lady. In 1989, Hepburn made her final appearance in her last film Always, and she played the role of an angel. Some people thought that she was playing herself because to them, she herself was an angel. Throughout her acting years, she acted in only one TV series, Gardens of the World with Audr