Nationality is British, and he is British.

Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston (May 4, 1929 - January 20, 1993), born in Brussels, Belgium, is a British and American Hollywood actress Famous actress.

Audrey Hepburn’s father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, was born in the village of Auschitz, Bohemia, Austria. He was a British banker with 3/4 Austrian descent. His mother Ella van Zingstra was the daughter of a Dutch baron and the governor of Suriname. She had the title of baroness. Her family genealogy can even be traced back to King Edward III of England.

Her father soon added the surname of his grandmother Kathryn Hepburn to his own, so Audrey Hepburn's surname was changed to Hepburn-Ruston. Her mother's first marriage was to a Dutch aristocrat, Junker Hendrik Gustave Adolf Quarles van Uverde, with whom she had two children, Audrey Hepburn's half-brothers, Junker Arnold Robert Alexander "Alex" Quarles van Uverde and Junker Ivan Edgar Bruce Quarles van Ufo Ford.

Although Audrey Hepburn was born in Brussels, she still holds British citizenship. Since her father frequently traveled between Belgium, England and the Netherlands, he only came home occasionally for reunions.

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Early life——

On May 4, 1929, Audrey Hepburn was born in Ixelles, southeast of Brussels, Belgium A family of aristocratic descent at No. 48 Chiev Street in the district, whose full name is Audrey Catherine Ralston. In May 1935, Audrey Hepburn's father abandoned her and her mother and ran away from home; in the same year, she Entered the aristocratic boarding school "Missliden School" in Elham Township, Kent, England, and graduated in 1938. In September 1939, the European War broke out, and Hepburn returned to the Netherlands with her mother.

In 1939, Audrey Hepburn entered the Arnhem Conservatory in the Netherlands to study ballet. In 1940, the Netherlands, which declared neutrality, was occupied by Nazi Germany. In order to avoid trouble for Audrey Hepburn's original very British name, her mother tampered with her identity documents and created a Dutch pseudonym for her, Edda van Heemstra, but this name It has never been legally registered.

When the Nazis occupied Arnhem, due to rumors that Hepburn's mother's family had Jewish ancestry, the originally very wealthy Baron family was regarded as an enemy of the Third Reich. Not only was their property confiscated by the occupying forces, but Audrey... Hepburn's uncle was even executed, and Hepburn and her daughter were forced to live a life of poverty: for several years, due to lack of food, Hepburn could only often eat tulip bulbs and drink a lot of water to fill her stomach.

Long-term malnutrition contributed to her thin figure in the future. Despite this, Audrey Hepburn still continued to practice her favorite ballet, even if she was so poor that she had to wear the most uncomfortable wooden dance shoes. During the middle and late stages of World War II, Hepburn used ballet performances to secretly raise funds for the Dutch guerrillas. At the same time, due to her young age, she used her identity as a child to deliver information to the Dutch underground party many times.

After the war in 1948, Audrey Hepburn and her mother went to London, England, with 100 pounds saved by frugality. She worked there while looking for further education opportunities; in the same year, she entered Marie Rambert's ballet school to study ballet. After months of training, she was told she was not cut out to be a ballet dancer due to her age and height, as well as developmental problems caused by malnutrition at an early age. In order to cope with the financial pressure on her family, she turned to part-time modeling and performed in a song and dance troupe.