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Melanie Griffith mom is celebrating Tippi Hedren95th birthday!
Griffith, 67, took to Instagram late Monday, January 20, to share a rare glimpse of her retired actress mom, who turned 95 on Sunday, January 19.
In the video shared by Griffith, Hedren is seen blowing out her birthday candles and waving to the camera. The legendary actress wore her hair in a sleek bob and red lipstick to celebrate her birthday.
“My beautiful mother turned 95 yesterday! She is happy, healthy and wild!!” Griffith captioned the video.
Hedren was famously discovered in the 1960s horror director Alfred Hitchcockwho occupied it Birds. She also appeared in a Hitchcock 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.
Last week, Jennifer Lopez made headlines with her response to an interviewer who brought up her age. “Listen, I can’t believe it’s been 30 years since Selena. I can’t believe that in 30 years we’re doing a retrospective of this and you’ll be 60 by then,” said Variety awards editor-in-chief Clayton Davis on Sunday (…)
In addition to acting, Hedren is a passionate animal rights activist. In the 1970s, she had a 400-pound lion, Neil, with whom she and a teenage Griffith were pictured. Life photo shoot for a magazine. Hedren has since expressed regret for allowing Neil to roam freely around her house, admitting it was “incredibly stupid”.
In a 2020 interview, Johnson, 35, revealed that her grandmother, in her 90s, was still caring for the big cats at her Shambala sanctuary in California.
“She’s 13 or 14,” Johnson he said on The Graham Norton Show. “There used to be about 60 cats and now there are only a few.
Asked if she too grew up with lions and tigers, Johnson said: “When I was born, they were all in huge compounds and it was much safer. It wasn’t quite as psycho as when they started.’
Hedren started her own animal charity, the Roar Foundation, in 1983 after producing and starring in the film. Roarappearing opposite 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.”
