Melanie Griffith
Melanie Griffith we celebrate mom Tippi HedrenIt’s his 95th birthday!
Griffith, 67, took to Instagram on Monday evening (January 20) to share a rare glimpse of her retired actress mother, who turned 95 on Sunday (January 19).
In a video shared by Griffith, Hedren can be seen blowing out her birthday candles and waving to the camera. The legendary actress had her hair cut in a bob and sported red lipstick for her birthday celebrations.
“My beautiful mother turned 95 yesterday! 🥰♥️🥰♥️🥰 She is happy, healthy and feisty!!” Griffith captioned the video.
Hedren was discovered in the 1960s by horror director Alfred Hitchcockwho threw it away The birds. She also appeared in Hitchcock’s thriller Marnie (1964) and, more recently, in the 2004 comedy I love Huckabees.
Hedren shares Griffith with her first husband, Pierre Griffithand is the grandmother of the actress Dakota Johnson.
Last week, Jennifer Lopez made headlines with her response to an interviewer who brought up her age. “Look, I can’t believe it’s been 30 years since Selena. I can’t believe that in 30 years we’ll be doing a retrospective of this and you’ll be 60 years old by then,” Clayton Davis, Variety’s awards editor, said on Sunday (…)
In addition to acting, Hedren is a passionate animal rights activist. In the 1970s, she owned a 400-pound pet lion, Neil, with whom she and the teenage Griffith were photographed for a famous event. Life photo shoot in a magazine. Hedren has since expressed remorse for allowing Neil to roam freely around her house, admitting it was “stupid beyond belief”.
In a 2020 interview, Johnson, 35, revealed that her grandmother was still caring for big cats at her Shambala reserve in California at the age of 90.
“She’s 13 or 14,” Johnson said on The Graham Norton Show. “There used to be about 60 cats, and now there are just a few.”
Asked if she, too, grew up living with lions and tigers, Johnson replied: “By the time I was born, they were all in huge compounds and it was a lot safer. It wasn’t as completely psychopathic as it was at the beginning.
Hedren established her own animal charity, the Roar Foundation, in 1983 after producing and starring in the film Roarappearing in front of several African lions. The foundation exists to support its animal sanctuary and, according to Hedren, its “mission is to educate the public about the dangers of private ownership of exotic animals.”