Tippi Hedren
Nathalie Kay Hedren is an American actress, animal rights activist, and former fashion model. She was discovered by director Alfred Hitchcock while appearing on a television commercial in 1961. Her contributions to world cinema have been recognized with the Jules Verne Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Nathalie Kay Hedren is an American actress, animal rights activist, and former fashion model. She was discovered by director Alfred Hitchcock while appearing on a television commercial in 1961. She received world recognition for her work in two of his films: the suspense-thriller The Birds, for which she won a Golden Globe, and the psychological drama Marnie. In an attempt to raise awareness for wildlife, she spent over a decade bringing Roar to the screen. She started her own nonprofit organization, the Roar Foundation, in 1983; it supports the Shambala Preserve, an 80-acre wildlife habitat. She has also set up relief programs worldwide following earthquakes, hurricanes, famine and war. Her contributions to world cinema have been recognized with the Jules Verne Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. For much of her career, her year of birth was reported as 1935. In 2004, she acknowledged that she was actually born in 1930. Her paternal grandparents were Swedish immigrants, while her mother was of German and Norwegian descent. Her father ran a small general store in Lafayette, Minnesota, and gave her the nickname \”Tippi\”. She has an older sister, Patricia. As a teenager, she took part in department store fashion shows. She had a highly successful modeling career during the 1950s and early 1960s, appearing on the covers of Life, The Saturday Evening Post, McCall’s, and Glamour, among others.
In 1961, after seven years of marriage to the actor Peter Griffith, Hedren divorced and returned to California with her daughter, Melanie, and rented an expensive home in Sherman Oaks. She later said, \”I thought I could continue my career as it had been in New York. I thought everything would be just fine, and it wasn’t. So I thought, well, I don’t type, what shall I do?\” On October 13, 1961, she received a call from an agent who told her a producer was interested in working with her. When she was told it was Alfred Hitchcock, she agreed to sign a seven-year contract. Within a year, she made her unofficial film debut as \”Miss Ice Box\” in the musical comedy The Petty Girl. In interviews, she referred to The Birds, her first credited role, as her first film. She has appeared in over 80 films and television shows, including Charlie Chaplin’s final film A Countess from Hong Kong, the political satire Citizen Ruth, and the existential comedy I Heart Huckabees. She has been represented in films by Deidre Dunne, Claudette Colbert, Edith Head, and others, but is now well-represented in films like Rebecca, Notorious, and To Catch a Thief with actor Martin Balsam. She is also instrumental in the development of Vietnamese-American nail salons. She studied every line, did every move, and tried to do everything right for her private life.
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