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60 free Audrey Hepburn trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Audrey Hepburn trivia quiz follows her from an aristocratic Brussels birth through the German occupation of Arnhem, ballet in Amsterdam and London, and the West End chorus line to the night Roman Holiday made her a star. The film questions cover Sabrina, Ondine on Broadway, Funny Face, The Nun's Story, Breakfast at Tiffany's and its little black dress, Charade, the My Fair Lady casting row and the dubbed vocals, Wait Until Dark, Robin and Marian and the angel cameo in Spielberg's Always. A second strand covers the woman herself: Colette spotting her in Monte Carlo, Gregory Peck insisting on equal billing, Givenchy's lifelong friendship, the four major awards, the marriages to Mel Ferrer and Andrea Dotti, the house called La Paisible, and the UNICEF missions to Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia that earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom weeks before she died. Difficulty runs from easy to expert and is shown on every question. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries its citation. Try our Marilyn Monroe and Classic Hollywood quizzes next.
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Q 01In which city was Audrey Hepburn born?
Brussels
She was born Audrey Kathleen Ruston at 48 Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles on 4 May 1929, and her family called her Adriaantje.
Q 02What was Hepburn's surname at birth?
Ruston
Her father later double-barrelled it to Hepburn-Ruston, wrongly believing he descended from the Earl of Bothwell; she dropped the Ruston in London.
Q 03Hepburn's mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra, belonged to which nobility?
Dutch
Ella's father had been mayor of Arnhem and governor of Dutch Guiana.
Q 04What false name did Hepburn use during the German occupation of the Netherlands?
Edda van Heemstra
She spent the war years at the Arnhem Conservatory, becoming ballet teacher Winja Marova's star pupil.
Q 05During the 1944-45 Dutch famine, Hepburn's family made flour from what?
Tulip bulbs
The malnutrition left her gravely ill with jaundice, anaemia and oedema; her mother's ex-lover Micky Burn sent cigarettes to sell for penicillin.
Q 06Which dance company gave Hepburn a scholarship that took her to London in 1948?
Ballet Rambert
Marie Rambert told her that her height and wartime-weakened constitution ruled out being a prima ballerina, so she turned to acting.
Q 07Which French novelist spotted Hepburn in Monte Carlo and cast her in Gigi on Broadway?
Colette
Hepburn had never spoken a line on stage; the play ran 219 performances and won her a Theatre World Award.
Q 08In which 1951 Ealing comedy did Hepburn have a minor role before stardom?
The Lavender Hill Mob
The same year she appeared in One Wild Oat, Laughter in Paradise and Young Wives' Tale.
Q 09Which character did Hepburn play in Roman Holiday (1953)?
Princess Ann
The producers had originally wanted Elizabeth Taylor, but William Wyler was won over by Hepburn's screen test.
Q 10Which co-star insisted Hepburn get equal billing on Roman Holiday, saying otherwise 'I'll look like a big jerk'?
Gregory Peck
After her death he tearfully recited Tagore's poem 'Unending Love' in tribute.
Q 11Which actress had the producers of Roman Holiday originally wanted for the role Hepburn won?
Elizabeth Taylor
Director William Wyler said Hepburn had 'charm, innocence, and talent... She was absolutely enchanting'.
Q 12Hepburn was the first actress to win which three awards for the same performance, in Roman Holiday?
Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA
The Oscar win was considered unexpected; she also landed on the cover of Time in September 1953.
Q 13For which 1954 Broadway play, in which she played a water nymph, did Hepburn win a Tony Award?
Ondine
Q 21Which author of the Breakfast at Tiffany's novella would have preferred Marilyn Monroe in the lead?
Truman Capote
He disliked the changes made to sanitise the story, but conceded that Hepburn 'did a terrific job'.
Q 22How did Hepburn describe playing the extroverted Holly Golightly?
'The hardest thing I ever did'
She called herself an introvert, yet the role became the defining one of her career and the dress an icon of the century.
Q 23Which coat brand's sales did Hepburn boost by wearing one in Breakfast at Tiffany's?
Burberry
One of the Givenchy little black dresses from the film sold at Christie's for a record 467,200 pounds in 2006.
She won it three days after her Roman Holiday Oscar, one of only three actresses to take both in the same year, with Shirley Booth and Ellen Burstyn.
Q 14Which two actors played the wealthy brothers competing for Hepburn in Sabrina (1954)?
Humphrey Bogart and William Holden
Billy Wilder directed; Holden later tried and failed to rekindle a romance on Paris When It Sizzles.
Q 15Which French designer, first hired for Sabrina, became Hepburn's lifelong collaborator and friend?
Hubert de Givenchy
He was initially disappointed that 'Miss Hepburn' was not Katharine Hepburn; she later became the face of his first perfume, L'Interdit.
Q 16Whom did Hepburn marry in Switzerland in September 1954?
Mel Ferrer
They starred together in Ondine and War and Peace; the marriage lasted 14 years and produced her son Sean.
Q 17Which Tolstoy heroine did Hepburn play opposite Henry Fonda in 1956?
Natasha Rostova
War and Peace earned her BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations, with husband Mel Ferrer also in the cast.
Q 18In Funny Face (1957), who plays the photographer who discovers Hepburn's bookshop clerk?
Fred Astaire
It was her musical debut and she sang her own songs; a 2006 Gap commercial later set her dancing to AC/DC.
Q 19Which role did Hepburn call the most demanding of her career, spending a year researching it?
Sister Luke in The Nun's Story
Variety agreed it was 'her finest performance'; it brought a third Oscar nomination and a second BAFTA.
Q 20What was Hepburn's only western?
The Unforgiven
She starred opposite Burt Lancaster and Lillian Gish in a story about racism against Native Americans.
Q 24In The Children's Hour (1961), Hepburn and which actress play teachers accused of being lesbians?
Shirley MacLaine
William Wyler directed it, reuniting with his Roman Holiday star.
Q 25Which 59-year-old Charade (1963) star had the script changed to have Audrey Hepburn's character pursue him?
Cary Grant
He ended up saying 'All I want for Christmas is another picture with Audrey Hepburn'; the film won her a third BAFTA.
Q 26On Paris When It Sizzles, the superstitious Hepburn insisted on which dressing room number?
55
She also had cinematographer Claude Renoir dismissed after seeing unflattering dailies, and got Givenchy a credit for her perfume.
Q 27Who originated Eliza Doolittle on stage but lost the My Fair Lady film role to Hepburn?
Julie Andrews
Producer Jack Warner thought Hepburn more bankable; Andrews then beat her to the Oscar for Mary Poppins.
Q 28Whose voice was dubbed over Hepburn's singing in My Fair Lady?
Marni Nixon
Hepburn had prepared vocally at length and walked off the set when told; she was not nominated for the Oscar.
Q 29In How to Steal a Million (1966), Hepburn's father's art collection consists entirely of what?
Forgeries
Peter O'Toole plays the man who helps her save her father before the fakes are exposed.
Q 30In Wait Until Dark (1967), Hepburn earned her fifth Oscar nomination playing a woman who is what?
Blind
Her husband Mel Ferrer produced it as their marriage collapsed, and she lost 15 pounds under the strain.