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Tippi Hedren
Age: 79
Height: 165 cm
Birth Place: New Ulm, Minnesota, USA
Born: Jan. 19th, 1930
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Tippi Hedren's Main TV Roles
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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BIOGRAPHY: Hedren owes her acting career to Alfred Hitchcock (I) who discovered the blonde model doing a commercial on the "Today" (1952) show. He cast her in The Birds (1963) and then Marnie (1964). She followed the Grace Kelly (I) mold for playing frigid females with a vulnerable core.
TRIVIA:
- She named one of her housecats after 'Sean Connery' (qv), her co-star in _Marnie (1964)_ (qv).
- Her store owner father, Bernard, was Swedish and her school teacher mother, Dorathea, was German-Norwegian.
- Has a sister named Patty Davis.
- At the end of shooting _Mister Kingstreet's War (1973)_ (qv), she discovered that the big cats used in the production had no place to go and would likely languish in small cages. This prompted her to obtain a parcel of land on her own to establish a home with a natural setting for retired big cats. She named it Shambala and it exists to this day.
- Her performance as Melanie Daniels in _The Birds (1963)_ (qv) is ranked #86 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
- Her first television commercial was for a cigarette brand in the early 1950s. She learned to smoke for the commercial, because she felt viewers would know if she was faking it. Her smoking habit lasted for 15 years until her daughter, actress 'Melanie Griffith' (qv), then 10 years old, came to her after a school health lecture and begged her to stop.
- Friend of 'Linda Blair' (qv), 'Rod Taylor (I)' (qv) and 'Diane McBain' (qv).
- Is a vegetarian.
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