Melanie Griffith celebrating mom Tippy Hedren95th birthday!
Griffith, 67, took to Instagram late Monday, January 20, to share a rare look at 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 at the camera. The legendary actress sported a sleek bob and red lipstick for her birthday.
“My beautiful mom turned 95 yesterday! She is happy, healthy and cheerful!!” Griffith captioned the video.
Hedren is known to have been discovered in the 1960s by horror director Alfred Hitchcockwho appointed her The birds. She also appears in Hitchcock’s thriller Marnie (1964) and more recently in the 2004 comedy I Heart Huckabees.
Hedren shares Griffith with her first husband, Peter Griffithand is the grandmother of the actress Dakota Johnson.
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In addition to acting, Hedren is a passionate animal rights activist. In the 1970s, she had a 400-pound pet lion, Neil, with whom she and the teenage Griffith were pictured in a photo for life photo shoot for a magazine. Hedren has since expressed her regret for allowing Neal to roam freely around her home, admitting it was “incredibly stupid”.
In a 2020 interview. Johnson, 35, revealed that her grandmother is still caring for big cats at her Shambhala sanctuary 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 only a couple.”
Asked if she too grew up living with lions and tigers, Johnson said: “At the time I was born, they were all in huge compounds and it was much safer. It wasn’t as mental as it was when they first started.
Hedren set up his own animal charity, the Roar Foundation, in 1983 after producing and starring in the film revappearing against several African lions. The foundation exists to support her animal sanctuary, and according to Hedren, its “mission is to educate the public about the dangers of private ownership of exotic animals.”
