There are few actors as iconic as Audrey Hepburn—a star from classics like Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Roman Holiday, and My Fair Lady. Now Lily Collins will play Audrey Hepburn in a film about making Tiffany’s.
The Emily in Paris star does bear a striking resemblance to the Oscar winner! Not to mention, Hepburn was one of the most stylish women of all time, so all eyes will be on the costume department.
Here’s what we know about the project so far.
Lily Collins will star and produce
“It’s with almost 10 years of development and a lifetime of admiration and adoration for Audrey that I’m finally able to share this. Honored and ecstatic don’t begin to express how I feel…” the actor wrote on Instagram to announce the project.
The film will focus on Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Per Deadline, the film will be about the making of the 1961 classic based on the novella by Truman Capote. (He famously wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Holly Golightly, but oh well.) Collins’s movie is based on Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson.
Dickinson creator Alena Smith will write the script.
(Head’s up if you haven’t watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s in a while or only know it from the famous clips and images: not all of it aged well, particularly the racist portrayal of an Asian man by Mickey Rooney. Hepburn is great though. Everyone should watch Sabrina.)
Wait, what happened to those other Audrey biopics?
If all of this sounds vaguely familiar, minus the Lily Collins part, that’s because there have been other Hepburn projects in the works over the years. In 2022, Apple was going to make a Hepburn biopic directed by Luca Guadagnino, starring Rooney Mara, but it never happened.
In November 2025, Ansel Elgort and Thomasin McKenzie signed on to star in a film about Hepburn’s friendship with designer Hubert de Givenchy, though that project is less of a biopic and more of a “one magical night” romp based on a real relationship. TBD on how that’s coming along, but interesting to note that Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios is plunging ahead on projects!
Then there were the rumors swirling in January 2025 that Ariana Grande was gunning for the part of Audrey in…something…when she suddenly started dressing very Hepburn-esque. In response to the rumors, Grande basically said she does take style inspo from Hepburn but denied that anything else was brewing.
We’ll have to wait and see how a Lily Collins Audrey Hepburn turns out!
Who was Audrey Hepburn?
Okay, we know you know who Audrey Hepburn was as a movie star, but did you know she wanted to be a dancer? And when she was a teenager she’d put on secret performances to raise money to fund the Dutch resistance against the Nazis? She was so cool!
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