Melanie Griffith My mom celebrates Tippi HedrenHis 95th birthday!
Griffith, 67, took to Instagram late on Monday, 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 wore her hair in a sleek bob and sported red lipstick for her birthday celebrations.
“My beautiful mama turned 95 yesterday! 🥰♥️🥰♥️🥰 She is happy, healthy and feisty!!,” Griffith captioned the video.
Hydrin was famously discovered in the 1960s Horror manager Alfred Hitchcockwho entered it Birds. She also appeared in the Hitchcock thriller Marnie (1964) and more recently in the 2004 comedy I heart Huckabees.
Hedren shares Griffith with her first husband, Peter GriffithsShe is the actress's grandmother Dakota Johnson.
Jennifer Lopez made headlines last week with her response to an interviewer who mentioned 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, and you'll be 60 by then,” Clayton Davis, Variety's senior awards editor, said Sunday. .
In addition to acting, Hedren is a passionate animal rights activist. In the 1970s, she had a 400-pound pet lion, named Neil, and famously posed with a teenage Griffith in one photo. life Magazine photo shoot. Hedren has since expressed remorse for allowing Neil to roam her home freely, admitting that it was “unbelievably stupid.”
In a 2020 interview, Johnson (35 years old) revealed that her grandmother was still taking care of big cats at her Shambala Sanctuary in California at the age of 90.
“She has 13 or 14 years,” Johnson said He 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: “By the time I was born they were all in huge compounds and it was safer. It wasn’t quite as psychological as it was when they first started.”
Hedren established her own animal charity, the Rohr Foundation, in 1983 after producing and starring in the film. roarappears in front of many 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.”
