Lily Collins to Play Audrey Hepburn in New Movie About the Making of “Breakfast at Tiffany”'s
Lily Collins to Play Audrey Hepburn in New Movie About the Making of “Breakfast at Tiffany”'s
Tommy McArdleMon, February 23, 2026 at 6:31 PM UTC
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Lily Collins on Dec. 15, 2025; Audrey Hepburn in 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Lily Collins is going to play Audrey Hepburn in a movie about the making of Hepburn's 1961 rom-com classic Breakfast at Tiffany's
Collins wrote on Instagram after the news broke that she has been involved with developing the project for "almost 10 years"
Hepburn won one Oscar during her nearly 40-years-long acting career; she died at 63 in 1993
Lily Collins is set to step into Audrey Hepburn's shoes in a new movie about the making of Hepburn's best-known movie, Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Collins, 36, confirmed on her Instagram Stories on Monday, Feb. 23 that she will portray Hepburn, the British actress and fashion icon who died at 63 in 1993, in a new film that goes behind-the-scenes of the 1961 romantic comedy that movie fans best associate Hepburn with.
"It's with almost 10 years of development and a life time of admiration and adoration for Audrey that I'm finally able [to] share this," Collins wrote on Instagram, as she shared articles published by The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline reporting on the new movie. "Honored and ecstatic don't begin to express how I feel..."
As both outlets reported, screenwriter and producer Alena Smith (Apple TV's Dickinson series) is writing a screenplay for the movie based on author Sam Wasson's nonfiction book Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Dawn of the Modern Woman. Per THR, that book follows the entirety of Breakfast at Tiffany's production and release and features insights into the movie's screenwriter Truman Capote, Hepburn, costume designer Edith Head and director Blake Edwards, among others.
Audrey Hepburn in 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
Hepburn famously costarred with George Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffany's, a romantic comedy that follows Hepburn's Holly Golightly as she falls in love with Peppard's Paul Varjak after he moves into the same New York City apartment building she lives in. The movie, which also starred Mickey Rooney, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen and Martin Balsam, among others, won two Academy Awards in 1962. Hepburn received a nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role that year; she had already won her clone career Oscar in 1954 for the movie Roman Holiday.
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On Instagram on Feb. 23, Collins also re-shared multiple past photos she has shared in which she intentionally channeled Hepburn's iconic style, including a bicycle-themed photoshoot she shared on Hepburn's birthday in May 2017 and an all-black look she once wore while skiing in 2024.
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Audrey Hepburn on the set of 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Hepburn appeared in some 34 movie or television roles between the late 1940s and 1989, when she made her last film appearance the movie Always. She was nominated for a total of five Oscars over the course of her acting career and was posthumously given the Academy's Jean Hershel Humanitarian Award in 1993.
Collins most recently appeared on the big screen in the 2024 horror-slasher MaXXXine. She is best known for starring on the Netflix rom-com series Emily in Paris, in which she plays an American marketing executive who lives in the French capital.
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