Even today, more than twenty years after she passed away in January 1993 at age 63, it remains to be seen if there will ever be a star that will shine as bright as hers. Like Greta Garbo or Grace Kelly, she became one of the most charming, enduring, and distinguished screen icons ever to grace the screen. Only two decades later, she rose to stardom when she played a heartwarming European princess who escaped her duties to lead Gregory Peck as an American reporter on a merry tour of Rome in “Roman Holiday” (1953), which earned her instant worldwide fame and, on top of that, an Academy Award as Best Actress. The same view of her birth house, 48, Keyenveldstreet, Elsene, in 2015 | Leo/Film Talk The plaque near the front door indicating that this was the place where she was born in 1929 | Leo/Film Talk She spent the first few years of her life here before moving to nearby Linkebeek in 1932. Her birth house is still there, and its facade looks pretty much intact after all those years, with a plaque next the front door now, reminding that this is the house where she was born back then, the residence and street looked like this. Hepburn was born in 48, Keyenveldstreet, Elsene (a.k.a. Her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston (1889–1980), was of Austrian and British descent, while her mother Ella van Heemstra (1900-1984) was a Dutch baroness.
Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929, as Audrey Kathleen Ruston, in Elsene near Brussels.
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