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Sean Hepburn Ferrer

Biography

Sean Hepburn Ferrer

Sean Hepburn Ferrer was born in Bürgenstock, Lucerne, Switzerland, on July 17, 1960 to Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ferrer and Melchor Gaston Ferrer. For 40 years, Sean has worked in every aspect of the entertainment industry and a series of nonprofits dedicated to continuing his mother’s humanitarian legacy as a UNICEF ambassador. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller AUDREY HEPBURN, AN ELEGANT SPIRIT. Sean, together with his wife Karin, with whom he not only shares his life but also his day to day business, distilled Audrey’s rich life into this essential story in LITTLE AUDREY'S DAYDREAM. They split their time between Switzerland, Spain and Florence, Italy, with their respective five children.

Sean Hepburn Ferrer

Books by Sean Hepburn Ferrer

Intimate Audrey: An Authorized Biography
by Sean Hepburn Ferrer and Wendy Holden - Biography, Nonfiction

To those who appreciate her work and legacy, Audrey Hepburn was many things. But perhaps her greatest contribution to the world was as a selfless humanitarian in the final years of her life, proving that fear and trauma can be transmuted into kindness and art. For Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Audrey was also his mother. In INTIMATE AUDREY, he candidly recounts how the shy “girl from across the landing” became the star we remember and love today. Featuring never-before-seen photographs and excerpts from her personal letters, this book is an intimate portrait of Audrey: as an icon, as a mother, and as an altruist who drew on her own experience of hunger and suffering to advocate fiercely for children in war-torn and famine-stricken countries. Audrey shines in this moving portrait of a mother by her son; a lyrical ode to a visionary woman who continues to defy all expectations decades after her death.