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of Gigi gave her critical acclaim; she does an eight-month road tour. Then Hepburn would begin to dance again in the 1952 film Secret People playing a prodigy ballerina.

In 1953, Audrey's first starring role and American film as a runaway princess and happens to run into and meet an international news journalist played by Gregory Peck in William Wyler's romantic comedy Roman Holiday. The role was initially supposed for Elizabeth Taylor but Wyler was impressed with Hepburn's screen test that she immediately was cast in the lead. "She had everything I was looking for: charm, innocence and talent" said Wyler. It gave her a best actress Oscar and she became an international star. "I never though I'd land in pictures with a face like mine" said Hepburn. In 1954, Hepburn appears in Billy Wilder's romantic comedy Sabrina, co-starring Humphrey Bogart and William Holden. The film earned her another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. The film also made Hepburn become a fashion icon with the help from designer Givenchy. "I never think of myself as an icon" says Hepburn. That same year, she would receive a Tony Award for Best Actress in Broadway's Ondine. After starring in the production, Hepburn marries actor/writer/producer Mel Ferrer.

In 1957, Audrey stars with two of the biggest stars like Fred Astaire in the musical Funny Face and another one of Wilder's romantic comedies, Love in the Afternoon with Gary Cooper. In 1959, she receives an Oscar nomination, the New York Film Critics Circle Award, and the British Film Academy Award for Best Actress in her leading role in the critically acclaimed drama The Nun's Story. Hepburn was offered the role to play The Diary of Anne Frank but turned it down because it was like her earlier days during the war. She recalled the similarities between herself and Anne Frank. The two at the time were the same ages when the war started and ended. When Audrey was given the book to read, it deeply had an affect on her as if she was reading herself in a book. In the film, The Unforgiven, Hepburn falls from a horse, breaks four vertebrae, tearing muscles in her lower back, and spraining her foot. She recovers and then is able to complete the film in orthopedic brace.

January 17, 1960, Hepburn gives birth to Sean H. Ferrer in Lucerne, Switzerland. A year later Hepburn wins another Oscar nomination for her role as a party socialite in Breakfast at Tiffany's. "I know I have a lot more sex appeal on the tip of my nose than many women in

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