Tippi Hedren
Tippi Hedren ( born January 19, 1930 Nathalie Kay Hedren in New Ulm, Minnesota ) is an American actress. She starred in the Hitchcock films The Birds and Marnie each a major role.
Life and career
Tippi Hedren was born in Minnesota as a descendant of German and Scandinavian ancestors. After Grace Kelly became Princess of Monaco, Hedren was the favorite blonde of Alfred Hitchcock, who had discovered them in a commercial for the diet drink Sego. In it he found after a long search for a successor to Kelly. Hedren Hitchcock gave each a major role in the films The Birds and Marnie. For The Birds 1964 she received a Golden Globe for Best Young Actress. However, Hitchcock's interest went beyond the Occupational addition. He was really fond of the cool-looking, blonde actress and ordered that Tippi name could be mentioned in connection with his films only in single quotes, ie ' Tippi '. Since she did not return his advances, the collaboration but was eventually terminated. The British television film The Girl from 2012 tells of the increasing tensions in the relationship between Hedren (played by Sienna Miller) and Hitchcock (played by Toby Jones).
While The Birds one of the most famous Hitchcock films, was Marnie was a failure at the box office. Hedren career recovered from it slowly. In 1981, she starred in the produced by her then-husband Noel Marshall felines spectacle film Roar the lead role. In 1983, she founded the Roar Foundation, which converted the rotary site at Acton approximately 40 kilometers north-east of Los Angeles on the edge of the Mojave Desert in a private reserve for wild cats named Shambala Preserve. Here Hedren lives next to about 60 big cats, including lions, tigers, Ligern, cheetahs and pumas.
Hedren is married for the fourth time. On her first husband Peter Griffith (1952-1961) was followed by Noel Marshall (1964-1982), Luis Barrenecha (1985-1995) and Martin Dinnes ( since 2002).
Your from his marriage to Peter Griffith originating daughter Melanie Griffith ( born 1957 ) is an actress, as well as their daughter and granddaughter Hedren Dakota Johnson.