Audrey Hepburn passed away two decades ago, but she is still remembered today for her films and for her fashion sense. In the iconic 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s in which she starred, she is remembered for both. For the publicity photographs for that movie, she wore the infamous 128-carat Tiffany Yellow Diamond, becoming one of the only two people who have ever worn it. Ironically, in the film, she said, “Personally, I think it’s a bit tacky to wear diamonds before I’m 40.”
While she scooped up multiple awards for her role in the 1954 Broadway play Ondine, her most popular performance may have been the 1964 film My Fair Lady. It is very rare to have won an Academy Award for a film, an Emmy for a television show, a Tony for a play, and a Grammy for a song. Hepburn is one of the very few who has done all four. Hepburn was voted number three woman on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest legends of the screen and also has a place in the International Bets Dressed Hall of Fame.
In the final years of her life, Hepburn devoted herself to the charity organization UNICEF, working to provide relief for tragedy-stricken areas in the global South. For those efforts she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
