Audrey Hepburn is a name withstanding time, an actress remembered in classics such as My Fair Lady, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Roman Holiday. She was classy and charming, always entertaining audiences regardless of what role she was playing.
Her talent as an actress is unparalleled; her characters were all incredibly different, from Holly Golightly to Joanna Wallace to Eliza Doolittle. Hepburn was capable of playing them all immaculately. There are plenty of classics under her belt, but to round out her 10 greatest films, Rotten Tomatoes was consulted.
10 Love In The Afternoon (88%)
This 1957 rom-com stars Gary Cooper as Frank and Audrey Hepburn as Ariane. Ariane is the daughter of a private investigator specializing in cases concerning unfaithful husbands and wives; she gets caught up in one such case after one of her father's client learns his wife is cheating and decides to kill her lover, Frank.
Rushing to warn him, Hepburn ends up falling in love with Frank and creating a facade of herself as a femme fatale, until he ironically hires her own father to investigate her as he knows nothing about her. Ariane's father tells him to let her go as she's looking for a serious relationship. Frank leaves by train, but the romantic happy ending is still in store as Ariane races along the platform after him until he pulls her onto the train with him. Through a voiceover, audiences find out the couple later married.
9 Breakfast At Tiffany's (88%)
Holly Golightly is probably Audrey Hepburn's best-known character. Holly transformed from a country girl into Manhattan socialite, dressing elegantly and leading a unique lifestyle, becoming a fashion icon for all time. She strikes up a friendship with her neighbor Paul (George Peppard), a writer, and is saving money to support her brother upon his return from the Army.
She schemes to marry men for their money, unaware of Paul's feelings for her, until Paul finally confronts her, which changes Holly's mind about going to Brazil to follow another man and races instead after Paul, finding a happy ending with him.
8 Sabrina (92%)
Sabrina Fairchild (Hepburn) is the daughter of the chauffeur of the wealthy Larrabee family. She is secretly in love with the Larrabee family's oldest son David (William Holden), though he pays her no mind, considering her a child. She tries to commit suicide upon finding David with another woman but is stopped by David's older brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart).
Sabrina goes on to attend a leading culinary school in Paris and returns as a sophisticated woman, and initially unrecognizable to David. David soon begins developing feelings for her but is tied up by an impending marriage and accompanying merger of his family's company to his fianceé's. It is not meant to be, as Sabrina falls for Linus, and David winds up helping the two get together while going through with his own marriage, leading to a different kind of happy ending.
7 The Nun's Story (94%)
Audrey Hepburn stars as Sister Luke/Gabrielle "Gaby" Van Der Mal, a young woman that enters a convent of nursing sisters in the latter part of the 1920s. She frequently struggles with her vows, particularly in obedience. She is given the difficult assignment of working in a European mental hospital when she actually desired a position in the Belgian Congo, and once she finally does get her desired post, she comes down with a case of tuberculosis.
These events, combined with the loss of her father and how she deals with the Nazi occupation, lead to her giving up life as a nun and she is granted a dispensation from her vows. Hepburn's performance was especially noteworthy and powerful in this film.
6 Charade (94%)
Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this 1963 gem. Hepburn's character returns home to Paris to discover her home cleared out and that her husband has been murdered. From then on, she is thrown into a chaotic mystery as she discovers who her husband really was while trying to pin down Cary Grant and his many aliases.
Not only that, but she must find out the truth, and missing money, while trying to stay alive. Nothing is at it seems, and Charade takes audiences on a non-stop thrill ride with Hepburn at the helm.
5 My Fair Lady (95%)
Hepburn stars as Eliza Doolittle, a poor girl with a strong Cockney accent. She meets Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), a scholar of phonetics, who boasts he could teach anyone to speak well enough that they could be passed off as a duke or duchess at an embassy ball.
Eliza shows up at his home for lessons, hoping to one day work in a flower shop, and from then on the two begin a rocky journey of working on Eliza's accent. Eliza puts up with many insults and phonetics, eventually leaving Higgins. However, Higgins eventually realizes how significant Eliza has become in his life, and she returns as he's listening to a recording of her voice.
4 Wait Until Dark (95%)
Hepburn does a remarkable job playing Susy, a woman blinded by an accident, who unintentionally gets mixed up in a drug crime. Her photographer husband has accepted a doll but is unaware it contains heroin.
Soon, criminals looking to retrieve the doll appear to trick Susy into trusting them, though she soon begins to suspect them. Susy relies on her wits once she realizes the truth and that the phone cord has been cut; she plunges the apartment into darkness apart from a safelight to defend herself. She bravely does so, and luckily is found unharmed following her harrowing ordeal.
3 Roman Holiday (98%)
This 1953 rom-com stars Audrey Hepburn as Princess Ann and Gregory Peck as reporter Joe Bradley. Ann, tired of her royal duties, runs away and ends up spending a day exploring and enjoying Rome, joined by Joe. Though Joe initially intends to get an exclusive interview, he winds up not doing so out of respect for Ann, who he's developed feelings for.
Sadly, their time together is cut short when Ann resumes her royal duties, knowing her fun had to come to an end. However, it's not before she shares a meaningful goodbye with Joe, and is given photographs, taken by Joe's friend, as a memento of her day with Joe in Rome.
2 The Lavender Hill Mob (100%)
Hepburn had a small part near the film's beginning as Chiquita, who was something of a consort of Henry Holland's (Alec Guinness), one of the film's main characters.
Chiquita is given some money as a "birthday present" by Holland and thanks him with a "how sweet of you!" before leaving. Though a bit part, it was a first glance into the greatness that Audrey Hepburn was, and a hint of what was to come from her.
1 How To Steal A Million (100%)
This heist comedy finds Hepburn playing the role of Nicole Bonnet, the daughter of a man that forges and sells the paintings of famous artists. Trying to protect her father when one of his fakes may be discovered, Nicole asks a burglar she previously met named Simon to steal it before it's discovered as a phony, ironically not knowing Simon is actually an investigator hired by art galleries to detect forgeries and the like.
Somehow despite some mishaps, the two pull off the heist, save Nicole's father, and fall in love, as Nicole and Simon are preparing to elope in the film's conclusion.
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