Melanie Griffith celebrating the mother Tippi Hedren95th birthday!
Griffith, 67, took to Instagram late Monday, January 20, to share some rare photos of the retired actor, 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 famous actress had her hair in a sleek bob and sported red lips to celebrate her birthday.
“My beautiful mother turned 95 yesterday! Happy, healthy and vibrant!!” Griffith captioned the video.
Hedren was famously discovered in the 1960s by a horror director Alfred Hitchcockput him in Birds. He also appeared in a Hitchcock thriller Marnie (1964) and, more recently, in the 2004 comedy I Heart Huckabees.
Hedren shared with Griffith her first husband, Peter Griffithand she is the actor’s grandmother Dakota Johnson.
Last week, Jennifer Lopez made headlines for her response to an interviewer who inflated her age. “Listen, I can’t believe it’s been 30 years since Selena. “I can’t believe we’ve been doing a retrospective of this for 30 years and you’ll be 60 by then,” said Variety’s Senior Awards host, Clayton Davis, on Sunday. […]
In addition to acting, Hedren is a passionate animal rights activist. In the 1970s, he had a 400-pound pet lion, Neil, for which he and the famous Griffith girl were pictured as a pet. Life magazine photo. Hedren has since expressed regret for allowing Neil to roam around her home, admitting it was “stupid beyond belief.”
In a 2020 interview, Johnson, 35, revealed that his grandmother was still herding big cats at her Shambala Preserve in California at age 90.
“He’s 13 or 14,” Johnson said The Graham Norton Show. “There used to be 60 cats, and now there are a couple.”
Asked if he also grew up living with lions and tigers, Johnson said, “When I was born, they were all mixed with the big ones and it was very safe.” It wasn’t as completely mind blowing as it was when they started. “
Hedren founded his own animal charity, the Roar Foundation, in 1983 after producing and acting in the film. Roaringseen facing several African lions. The foundation exists to support his zoo and according to Hedren, “its purpose is to educate the public about the dangers of private ownership of exotic animals.”
