Audrey Hepburn was born in 1930 (1) in Belgium. (2)________ the age of seventeen, she won a scholarship to study ballet in London. Not very long (3) __________that, she found herself playing small parts (4) _______ English screen comedies. Her performance in a movie called Monte Carlo Baby brought her (5) _________the attention of director William Wyler, who had no doubt (6) _________ her talent. Thanks (7) ________ him, she was an instant success: when she was only twenty-four, she won an Oscar (8) _________ her first starring role. For the next fifteen years, she worked (9) ________ Hollywood’s most famous directors such as William Wyler and Billy Wilder. She played (10) ________ giants of the screen like Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda and Fred Astaire in many movies, (11) ______ which My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany's are perhaps the best known. She stayed away (12) _______ the cameras for nine years (13) ________ order to raise her two sons. In 1976, she returned (14) _______ the silver screen and worked in two films before making her final appearance as an angel in Steven Spielberg's Always. (15)________addition (16) _____ her success on screen, she tirelessly devoted herself (17) _______ her work as an ambassador for UNICEF. Her trip (18) ________ Somalia helped focus the world’s attention (19) ________ that tragic land. Her dedication (20) ________ the cause of suffering children came (21) ________ personal experience: during the Second World War, as a young teenager in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, Hepburn and her mother had survived (22) _______ eating tulip bulbs. In January 1993, she died (23) _______ cancer (24) _______ her home (25) _______ Switzerland.
