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Ella, Baronness van Heemstra, DStJ (12 June 1900 – 26 August 1984) was a Dutch aristocrat and the mother of actress Audrey Hepburn. After her marriage to Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, she became a British citizen.
- Baroness Elbrig Willemine Henriette van Asbeck
- 12 June 1900, Velp, Gelderland, Netherlands
- Socialite and volunteer worker
- Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra
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 mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra (12 June 1900 – 26 August 1984), was a Dutch noblewoman. Ella was the daughter of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra , who served as mayor of Arnhem from 1910 to 1920 and as governor of Dutch Guiana from 1921 to 1928, and Baroness Elbrig Willemine Henriette van Asbeck (1873–1939), a granddaughter of ...
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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 · Audrey Hepburn as a teenager with her mother, Dutch baroness Ella Van Heemstra, 1946. Hulton Archive/Getty Images. By this time she, like most Dutch young people, was already suffering...
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SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. Baroness Ella van Heemstra, DStJ (12 June 1900 – 26 August 1984) was a Dutch aristocrat and the mother of actress Audrey Hepburn. After her marriage to Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, she became a British citizen. Ella van Heemstra.
Elegant Dutch actress, nominated for four Best Actress awards, who became an advocate for starving children worldwide. Born Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston on May 4, 1929, in Brussels, Belgium; died on January 27, 1993, in Tolochenaz, Switzerland; daughter of Baroness Ella van Heemstra and Joseph Victor Anthony Hepburn-Ruston (an ...
