Apple has announced the start of preparations for the biopic of Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn, and it has nominated one of its lookalikes, Rooney Mara, for the title role.

Rooney is best known for her roles in several films, including "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and "Carol", both of which were nominated for Academy Awards, and Nightmare Alley.

The film will be directed by Luca Guadagnino, and his latest work was the drama "Call Me by Your Name", and the film will be written by Michael Mitnick, whose latest work was the short film "The Staggering Girl".

The movie trailer has yet to be released, or the details and plot have been announced, but Hepburn's illustrious career is enough to give us a great glimpse of the film's events.

Dutch resistance during World War II

When we listen to classical music with gentle singing and elaborate dance, Hepburn appears to us in her sweet romantic scenes, as if she was a fictional character set only in the plots of romantic drama, but in fact Hepburn's personal life is full of tragedy and hardship.

Her story began when her father - the diplomat Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston - met her aristocratic Dutch mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra, in the Dutch East Indies, then they married and moved to Belgium, fearing a Marxist revolution, and there Audrey was born in 1929.

They initially supported the Nazis, and even traveled to Germany to take part in Adolf Hitler's rallies.

When the family moved to England in 1935, Joseph became active in Hitler's movements, until Audrey's mother quickly realized Hitler's ambitions, and traveled to Amsterdam.

What did Audrey bring to the world?

After the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, Audrey and her mother spent many months living in the basement of the family's property in Arnhem, the Netherlands.

During this time, Audrey became an active member of the Dutch Resistance, collecting donations, carrying secret letters and leaflets, and helping deliver food to pilots.

Ballet lessons helped her to present performances to raise the morale of the Dutch people, and she performed theatrical and lyrical performances of the Dutch resistance, to entertain them and take their minds off the horrors they were living in.

At the end of the war, Audrey and her mother moved to Amsterdam, and there she joined the "choir group" and started on her way to the cinema after they told her that she would not be able to become a dancer because of her physical weakness, and indeed she did not give up and continued her artistic path;

She got her first role in 1949 when she played the role of an air hostess in the movie "Dutch in Seven Lessons".

Later in her life, Audrey became a human rights advocate, working with human rights organizations such as UNICEF, and channeling her energy into relief work, including one of her famous visits to Somalia in the 1980s.

Eternal Hollywood legend

During the fifties and sixties of the last century, Audrey Hepburn was an icon of the silver screen, and participated in about 35 films.

Hollywood did not hesitate long after Hepburn's first roles, and soon cast the 24-year-old actress as Princess Anne in the 1953 movie "Roman Holiday", co-starring Gregory Peck, who played the reporter.

After that, she gained international fame, and won her first Oscar for Best Actress.

In 1959, she played the nun in The Nun's Story, appearing as a suspicious woman who feels God calls her to be a nun, but sees herself unable to abide by the strict rules of religion.

This role is considered Hepburn's best performance.

Hepburn has been an icon since 1961, after appearing as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Hence, her short black dress became one of her trademarks, and the design spread all over the world.

Hollywood gave Hepburn plenty of opportunities to showcase her comedic talent;

In 1966, she played the daughter of a counterfeit art dealer in How To Steal a Million Dollars?

(​How to Steal a Million).

In 1967, she gained more fame after entering the world of horror films and presenting Wait Until Dark, a thriller about a blind woman who is haunted by a criminal.

After that, Audrey Hepburn decided to retire from art.

However, she appeared in a few films after 1975. In 1988, she began her new career as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, working for the organization until her death in 1993.

Strangely enough, Hepburn did not see herself as beautiful, and did not realize her extraordinary beauty, but was convinced that her teeth were crooked, and that her ears and feet were too large, and that she did not like the shape of her nose.

And she never thought that she would become a famous actress.

But, fortunately, about 35 films and several awards proved her wrong.