A History Of Iconic Women: Here Are 60 Years Of Lady Legends

A Very Busy Humanitarian

Not only was she an incredible entertainer and performer (of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, My Fair Lady, among many other movies, fame), Audrey Hepburn was a humanitarian, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, fashion icon, and spoke several different languages (including Spanish, Dutch, German, English, and Italian).

In the late 1980s, she did work for UNICEF in Ethiopia where she helped starving children in an orphanage. In the early 1990s, she made another UNICEF trip, this time to Vietnam, to help support clean-water programs. In 1992, Hepburn was diagnosed with abdominal cancer. She died in in 1993 from related complications. She was 63.