Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Nickname Edda van Heemstra Audrey Hepburn/Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston Christened simply Audrey Kathleen Ruston, her mother Baroness Ella Van Heemstra temporarily changed the actress name from Audrey to Edda during the war, feeling that Audrey might indicate her British roots too strongly. During the war, being English in occupied Netherlands was not an asset; it could have attracted the attention of the occupying German forces and resulted in confinement or even deportation. After the war her father Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston found documents about his ancestors, some of whom bore the name Hepburn. This is when he added it to his name, which caused her daughter to have to add Hepburn to her legal name as well, thus Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston. Hunt Post reports a slightly different name that doesnt agree with other sources I checked. huffingtonpost/2013/11/26/celebrities-real-names_n_4343283.html
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