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Emma Ferrer never met his grandmother, a screen and style legendAudrey Hepburn. She was born in 1994, just over a little over a year after Hepburn's death in 1993. But she was inspired by her grandmother's work during her life and the mighty example that She defined.

Ferrer, 27 years old, is the daughter of the son of HepburnSean Hepburn Ferrer andLeila Flannigan. As a model and actor, Ferrer definitely followed the traces of his grandmother regarding his career choice, but she also inherited Hepburn's compassion and the sale of Hepburn. Read more about how Emma Ferrer keeps her famous living grandmother's memory.

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While Hepburn is better known as the refined star of classic movies likeFunny head,Roman holidays,andSabrina,She came from modest debut. She was born in Belgium in 1929, but after her father abandoned the family in the mid-1930s, her mother moved the family in the Netherlands. "I was in Holland during the war, during the German occupation," she said in a1988 interview with UNICEF. "The last winter was the worst of all. The food was rare and all that had gone to the troops."

In 1946, the United Nations Emergency Fund for Children was trained to provide humanitarian aid to children around the world. The group representatives came to Holland and Hepburn stated that she had personally received help from the organization. "I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received medical food and relief just after the Second World War," she said. "There is a big difference between dying of famines and malnutrition, of course, but I was very, very undernourished."

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Hepburn's early experience led him to pursue volunteer work with UNICEF later in life. In 1989, she was appointed a goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF and she made help with the organization in war-torn countries and famine, like Bangladesh and Ethiopia, visiting with children and mothers in the world.

Even after receiving a diagnosis of abdominal cancer in 1992, Hepburn joined Turkey's assistance missions, Kenya and Somalia. The same year she wasrewarded the presidential medal of freedom for his contributions to humanitarian causes. She will travel and supported the work of the organization until her death in January 1993.

"There is no question that there is a moral obligation for those who have, give those who have nothing,"she said in an interview of 1988.

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Emma Ferrar may never have met his grandmother, but Hepburn's compassion inspired him. "To have somehow started my own journey with humanitarian organizations, it was a way for me to really manageFeel a connection to it, "Says Ferrer in an interview 2021 withToday.

FerretTalked about the decision of the evolution of the Hepburn game use his celebrity to help others in an interview withStrong In 2019. "I think when my grandmother came out in the field, she saw himself in these children she met and those mothers too," said Ferrer at the exit. "She was the first celebrity to do anything like that, but she was also the first public person who would go in these countries and not only say hello to the children or greet the mothers. She really picked them up and kiss her hands. Mothers. She was really physically involved. I think it really shows how personally she took all that and how she wanted to be involved very personally. "

He was Hepburn's enthusiasm for the organization, as well as his own activism of his parents, who led to Ferrer to start volunteering with UNICEF as a teenager. (She photographed here volunteer in 2014.) Later, she became a spokesman for UNICEF and the Ambassador of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

"I was exposed to the charity work of a very young age. I was involved in family efforts as far as I can remember"Ferrer told the chicIn 2019. "It's as so good for others and the provision of those who have fewer words constituted a family vocabulary of implicit values. I grew up monitoring my father's efforts to make a difference in geographical spaces and metaphorics that meant something to him. I learned that it's not just a possibility, but human responsibility. "

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In 2020, directorHelena Coan publishedAudrey,A documentary about Hepburn's life that focuses more strongly on his first difficulties and his desire to help others. He offers both Emma and his father, speaking of the heritage of the actor.

Ferrer (photo here in 2019) saidHarper Bazaar that the film offered aLook more deeply in the life of his grandmother. "I really think that the message to take away [the film] is Audrey has taken pain and transformed it into something really revolutionary. Many other people in his situation would have a little attempt to hire this pain," a- she stated.

And it continues to inspire Ferrer to work with UNICEF. "People are careful about something that is important in their own family and they care about what it means to continue this legacy," she stated in a2019 interview with the organization. "If they feel this reader, I think it's infectious. I think he spreads."

As it is cultivated, Ferrer has also dated modeling and act.She made her magazine debut on the cover ofHarper Bazaar September 2014 and wasSigned by storm management Shortly after. She has since modeled for Dior, Givenchy and Tiffany & Co.

In 2019, she had a part in the feature filmThe man in the attic, a psychological thriller led byVenetopoulos Constantine. "She has this aspect of old souls to her. It's almost like it's another time," VenetopoulosRecountThe post of New Yorkferr. "There is an element of [it] DNA that can transport and become that other person."

As where she sees her career in progress, Ferrer saidThe post of New York: "I play very softly and very slowly. I want to be able to have the freedom to be part of artistic projects that I believe in." On Instagram, Ferrer shares another artistic side of herself - she is also a painter and didA piece in 2020 in honor of his grandmother.

In his interview 2021 withTodayFerrer said to live to the success hepburn weighs on her. "When 21 rolled, I was like:" Ok, what did I do? "It's a bit inevitable to compare and despair, as they say," she admitted. "It's like this dichotomy of wishing that I had the chance to know it and that I really feel really intimidated by whom she is and how amazing she is. "

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