Tippi hedren bio biography

(1930-)

Who Is Tippi Hedren?

Tippi Hedren began a modeling career that took her to New York and Los Angeles.

Her role in a television commercial caught the eye of famed director Alfred Hitchcock, who gave her the lead in his films The Birds and Marnie. While continuing her work in TV and film, Hedren founded the Shambala Preserve in Southern California in the early 1970s as a sanctuary for rescued exotic cats, before launching the Roar Foundation to continue her work with animals.

Tippi hedren bio biography

Hedren has been married three times and is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith.

Early Life

Nathalie Kay Hedren was born on January 19, 1930, in New Ulm, Minnesota. Her father, who ran a general store in the nearby town of Lafayette, gave his daughter the nickname “Tippi” — Swedish for “little girl” — when she was a baby.

While she was still a young girl, Hedren’s good looks helped launch her career as a model, and during high school she appeared in local advertisements and fash