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- NAME: Tippi Hedren
- OCCUPATION: Animal Rights Activist, Film Actress, Television Actress
- BIRTH DATE: January 19, 1930 (Age: 82)
- PLACE OF BIRTH: New Ulm, Michigan
- Originally: Nathalie Hedren
- ZODIAC SIGN: Capricorn
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Actress Tippi Hedren was discovered by Alfred Hitchcock, who cast her in her two most notable films The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964).
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Synopsis
and Citizen Ruth (1996). In 1972 she founded the Roar Foundation and Shambala Preserve, an animal preserve outside Los Angeles. Hedren is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith.
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Film actress. Born on January 19, 1930 in New Ulm, Michigan, USA., Tippi Hedren was discovered by Alfred Hitchcock, who cast her in her two most notable films The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964).
Later films include Roar (1981), which Hedren also produced, Deadly Spygames (1989), and Citizen Ruth (1996), and she has appeared in several television movies, including Birds 2: The Land's End (1994).
Tippi Hedren has also dedicated her life to animal rescue efforts. In 1972 she founded the Roar Foundation and Shambala Preserve, an animal preserve outside Los Angeles. It houses over 65 animals. Shambala also became the home for Michael Jackson's two Bengal tigers after he closed his Neverland zoo.
Hedren is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith.
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