--- description: A pink, black and white illustration honors the actress on what would have been her 85th birthday title: Google Doodle Honors Audrey Hepburn's 85th Birthday image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Google Doodle Pays Tribute to Audrey Hepburn by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 4, 2014 4:52 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 4, 2014 4:52 PM CUT Audrey Hepburn died of cancer in 1993, but her stunning visage lives on, primarily through posters in college dorm rooms. But today, on what would have been her 85th birthday, it lives on through a Google Doodle.  The image was adapted from a 1956 black and white photograph taken by Yousuf Karsh, artist Jennifer Hom [explains](http://www.google.com/doodles/audrey-hepburns-85th-birthday "undefined") in a Google blog post. The Doodle team rotated through several options (which you can see [here](http://www.google.com/doodles/audrey-hepburns-85th-birthday "undefined")) but ultimately settled on the above image because it showcases the actress’s beauty and grace along with her passion for humanitarian work. “Finding the right solution for someone as timeless as Audrey proved a tricky task,” Hom writes. “Not only was she a classically beautiful actress, she also dedicated her life to philanthropy. I wanted to show both sides of her life’s work.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/87152/google-doodle-audrey-hepburn/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/87152/google-doodle-audrey-hepburn/"},"headline":"Google Doodle Pays Tribute to Audrey Hepburn","datePublished":"2014-05-04T16:52:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:41.399Z","description":"A pink, black and white illustration honors the actress on what would have been her 85th birthday","url":"https://time.com/87152/google-doodle-audrey-hepburn/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Google","Hollywood","Google Doodle","celebrity","actresses"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/87152/google-doodle-audrey-hepburn/","name":"Google Doodle Pays Tribute to Audrey Hepburn"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Google Makes its Doodles","description":"Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/upF0qp1E/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-07-07T16:09:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/87152/google-doodle-audrey-hepburn/","duration":"PT3M23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/87152/google-doodle-audrey-hepburn/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```