She already had her star on Hollywood Boulevard, she now has her garden in Brussels. A square in the name of Audrey Hepburn was inaugurated on Wednesday in the Belgian capital, near the house where she was born in 1929.
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At the entrance to the “Audrey Hepburn Garden”, passers-by are now greeted by a small bronze bust bearing her likeness, the same as the one already installed in the 1990s in Arnhem (Netherlands), stronghold of her maternal family. “There are now two busts of her in the two cities where she spent her childhood”, explained his son Sean Hepburn Ferrer, present for the inauguration. It was organized on the very day when the star, who died in 1993, would have been 93 years old.
Oscar-winning actress at 23 for her role in roman holidays, world fashion icon (she was a muse of Givenchy), Audrey Hepburn – whose real name is Audrey Ruston – was born on May 4, 1929, at 48 rue Keyenveld, in the Brussels municipality of Ixelles. She was born to a mother from the Dutch aristocracy and a British father who was then working for the Belgian branch of the Bank of England.
The future star lived in Brussels the “five six” first years of her life, until her father left the family, which then settled in Arnhem during the war, told AFP Sean Hepburn Ferrer, the son she had in 1960 with the American actor Mel Ferrer .The bubbly-faced actress had a string of successes in 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, with films like roman holidays, funny face, Diamonds on couch Where My Fair Lady.
Sean Hepburn Ferrer, film producer who lives in Italy, spoke of the importance his mother had of her role as an ambassador for Unicef during the last years of her life (1988-93). He saw “a symbol” in the fact that now she “watch over children playing” in a square, a few hundred meters from his birthplace. The bronze sculpture was made by Dutch artist Kees Verkade after the death of Audrey Hepburn, at the request of her family.