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Ella van Heemstra was a Dutch aristocrat and the third of five daughters of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra, who was mayor of Arnhem from 1910 to 1920 and served as Governor of Suriname between 1921 and 1928.
Apr 3, 2019 · Audrey Hepburn's mother, Dutch Baroness Ella van Heemstra, met Hitler in 1935 and had a Nazi officer as a boyfriend. She later joined the Dutch Resistance and hid a British paratrooper during World War II.
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Hepburn's grandfather, Aarnoud van Heemstra, was the governor of the Dutch colony of Dutch Guiana. Hepburn's mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra (12 June 1900 – 26 August 1984), was a Dutch noblewoman.
Baroness Ella Van Heemstra was an actress and the mother of Audrey Hepburn. She was born in 1900 in the Netherlands and died in 1984 in Switzerland.
- Actress
- June 12, 1900
- Baroness Ella Van Heemstra
- August 26, 1984
May 3, 2019 · Ella also hosted at least one illegal black evening at the van Heemstra home, Villa Beukenhof, during which her daughter danced. The Resistance events were high risk, with danger always...
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Baroness Ella van Heemstra, DStJ was a Dutch aristocrat and the mother of actress Audrey Hepburn. After her marriage to Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, she became a British citizen.
Learn about the life and career of Baroness Ella Van Heemstra, the mother of actress Audrey Hepburn. Find out her birth and death dates, marriages, children, and trivia on IMDb.
