Melanie Griffith is celebrating mom The Hedren type95th birthday!
Griffith, 67, took to Instagram late Monday, January 20, to share a rare snap 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 cut and wore red lipstick for her birthday celebrations.
“My beautiful mother turned 95 yesterday! She is happy, healthy and alive!!” Griffith wrote the video.
Hedren was famously discovered in the 1960s by the horror director Alfred Hitchcockwho threw him in The birds. She also appeared in the Hitchcock thriller Marnie (1964) and, most recently, in the 2004 comedy I Heart Huckabees.
Hedren separates Griffith from her first husband, Peter Griffithand is the grandmother of the actress Dakota Johnson.
Last week, Jennifer Lopez made waves with her response to an interviewer who inflated her age. “Listen, I can’t believe it’s been 30 years since Selena. I can’t believe 30 years we’re going to be doing this retrospective and you’ll be 60 years old by then,” said Variety Awards senior editor Clayton Davis on Sunday, (…)
In addition to acting, Hedren is a passionate animal rights activist. In the 1970s, she had a 400-pound lion, Neil, with whom she and a teenage Griffith were famously photographed for a Life magazine photo shoot. Hedren has since expressed regret for allowing Neil to roam free in her home, admitting it was “stupid beyond belief”.
In a 2020 interview, Johnson, 35, revealed that her grandmother was still caring for the big cats at her Shambala reserve in California at age 90.
“She’s 13 or 14,” Johnson added The Graham Norton Show. “There used to be about 60 cats, and now there’s 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 big compounds and it was much safer. It wasn’t quite as psycho as it was when they first started.”
Hedren set up her own animal charity, the Roar Foundation, in 1983 after producing and starring in the film. howlsappearing in front of several African lions. The foundation exists to support its animal reserves, and according to Hedren, “its mission is to educate the public about the dangers of private ownership of exotic animals.”
