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Nathalie Kay”Tippi” Hedren was born on 19 January 1930, in New Ulm, Minnesota USA, of Swedish, Norwegian, and German descent. Tippi is an actress, former fashion model, and an animal rights activist, best known for her successful modelling career during her 20s. She has also appeared in two Alfred Hitchcock films and all of her efforts have helped put her net worth to where it is today.

How rich is Tippi Hedren? As of late-2016, sources estimate a net worth that is at $20 million, mostly earned through successful careers in modelling and acting. Her work has been honored with a Jules Verne Award, and a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star. She’s also an advocate of animal rescue, and all of these have ensured the position of her wealth.

When she was four years old, her father gave her the nickname “Tippi”. During her teens, she started appearing in department store fashion shows, and by the age of 20 had moved to New York City to join the Eileen Ford Agency. Throughout the 1950s, became very successful as a model, being featured in magazines such as “Glamour”, “Life”, and “The Saturday Evening Post”, establishing her net worth.

In 1961, an agent contacted her to tell her that Alfred Hitchcock was interested in hiring her; she accepted and signed a seven-year contract. Hitchcock notably wanted her high-style and lady-like quality which was once well-represented in films. After going through an extensive screen test and performing scenes from previous films, Hitchcock started to heavily invest in her lifestyle. He then offered her the lead in his upcoming film “The Birds”.

“The Birds” became Hedren’s screen debut, and Hitchcock was responsible for coaching Tippi in many aspects of acting. She portrayed the role of Melanie Daniels, and had one of the most difficult scenes in which she is attacked by multiple live birds (beaks clamped shut with elastic bands). Her performance proved to be successful and critically acclaimed. Tippi started to rise to star quality, and received a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. Tippi was then offered a lead in Alfred’s next film, “Marnie” which was based on a novel by Winston Graham. In the film, she plays an emotionally battered woman who travels various cities to steal from her employers. The film had mixed reviews and low box-office returns, mainly because it was way ahead of its time, as over the years, it has become acknowledged as one of Hitchcock’s best works.

After “Marnie”, Hedren and Hitchcock’s collaboration would end; it was rumoured that he became very strict with Tippi’s lifestyle, which became very difficult for her especially during the filming of “Marnie” – Hitchcock was reported to be obsessed with her and was highly protective of her, to the point of being possessive. He threatened to end her career and later the two only communicated through a third party to complete the film. She refused all other film offers from him, and her contract was eventually sold to Universal Studios; later the film “The Girl” was released about their relationship. Her first feature film after “Marnie” would be “A Countess from Hong Kong” starring Marlon Brando.

Tippi would do more projects over the next few years, and her next major film would be “Roar”, which was about a family’s misadventures in a research park. For the film, they raised a lion and eventually bought a ranch, rescuing several other wild animals. The filming took five years to complete, and seventy members of the cast were injured including the actors. In 1978, a flood killed three lions and set the movie back for several years. This film led to her creating The Roar Foundation, which aimed to take care of animals. She went on to do several low budget roles to support her foundation later on.

For her personal life, it is known that Tippi’s daughter is actress Melanie Griffith whose father is advertising executive Peter Griffith(m. 1952-61). In 1964, she married agent Noel Marshall but they divorced in 1982. Three years later, she married Luis Barrenechea and their marriage lasted until 1995. In 2002, she was engaged to veterinarian Martin Dinnes but they broke up in 2008.

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Nathalie Kay Hedren Quick Info

Nathalie Kay Hedren Trademarks

1. Deep sultry voice
2. Voluptuous figure
3. An unaffected, icy mid-period “Hitchcock blond”

Nathalie Kay Hedren Quotes

• [In 2016] My marriages were all good – until they weren’t. But I got something good out of each of them. My first husband Peter Griffith was younger than me and I’ve never understood why I married him but he gave me Melanie Griffith. My second husband Noel Marshall gave me my love of animals. My third husband Luis Barrenechea was everything I wanted in a man, except that he was an alcoholic and that was unbearable. I’d love to have a man in my life and to go on dates but I’ll never marry again. I like living alone. I’m vain and I’m also selfish. Who would want that in a woman?
• [on working on the set of The Birds (1963)] One of the ravens was so sweet that Ray [Ray Berwick] wouldn’t teach him all the bad things to do, like peck people and dive-bomb. That raven became my buddy. He’d come up and sit in my dressing room on the set, play with my makeup, and throw it on the floor. I’d walk around on the set with him on my shoulders.
• [2014, on what it’s like being a matriarch of an acting dynasty] It’s funny that nobody in of all my ancestors was interested in any of the dramatic arts. None of them. It started with me, then my gorgeous daughter Melanie Griffith, and now my granddaughter Dakota Johnson. Now, we are wondering what my other granddaughter Stella Banderas is going to be doing. She’s very cerebral. I would be very anxious to see what happens to her.
• When you do a love scene with someone in a movie, you have cameras and lights surrounding you. It’s not very romantic, especially considering what I was going through. A lot of people have asked me whether or not I had a fling with Sean Connery during the filming of Marnie (1964), and the answer is no. Marnie was so frigid and cold that she screamed when a man came near her. If I had strong feelings for him in real life, it would have shown through my eyes in the film. I was too dedicated to acting. So, no, I don’t really know what it’s like to kiss Sean Connery.
• They called and asked what I thought about a remake of The Birds (1963) and I thought: ‘Why would you do that? Why?’ I mean, can’t we find new stories, new things to do?
• [In 2006, when asked whether she can watch The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964) and separate herself from the experience of making them] I can do that now and it is quite a relief, actually. I can look at it and think “She did a good job!” There were years where I would see things and wish I could do them over but now I can just watch them.
• It is interesting because some of the critics who really panned [Marnie (1964)] when it came out see it again and it is like they are reviewing an entirely different movie. I think a lot of it was that all those years ago, people were not aware of how a trauma being inflicted upon a child can affect what happens to them as an adult if it isn’t properly dealt with. I think there were multiple reasons why they didn’t like it. For some reason, the painted backdrops really bothered people forty years ago – that was a big deal for some reason with the critics. I kept thinking “So what, it’s a movie!”
• [on working with Sean Connery, her leading man in Marnie (1964)] He was just fabulous, a consummate actor with a great sense of humor. He was practicing his golf swing all the time – a rather profound golfer. We honored him on June 8, 2006, at the American Film Institute. They asked me to speak about him, which was great fun. It was one of the most wonderful evenings.
• [on being offered the title role in Marnie (1964) by Alfred Hitchcock] I was stunned. I was amazed that he would offer me this incredible role and that he would have that kind of faith in me . . . I thought Marnie was an extremely interesting role to play and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
• For years, directors and producers came up to me and said they’d wanted me for a role, but [Alfred Hitchcock] wouldn’t allow it. The worst was when I found out that François Truffaut had wanted to cast me. I’d never heard a word about it. That one hurt.
• My advice to anyone contemplating acting as a profession is to be independently wealthy or have another vocation as a backup. [Melanie Griffith] and [Antonio Banderas] are well set, but most actors make a pittance.
• [on 3/1/05, when asked which is her favorite of the Alfred Hitchcock films she starred in] I think Marnie (1964). They were both so different that it’s kind of hard to figure out which, but The Birds (1963) was sort of a chase. All of the Hitchcock films have a mystery to them and that sort of thing, but the personality of Marnie was so intriguing. She was really – poor Marnie.
• [on Alfred Hitchcock] To be the object of somebody’s obsession is a really awful feeling when you can’t return it.

Nathalie Kay Hedren Important Facts

• $600 /per week
• $500 per week
• Daughter of Bernard (June 13, 1893-April 1, 1979) and Dorothea (née Eckhardt) Hedren (July 14, 1899-October 30, 1994). Both were born and raised in Minnesota.
• Younger sister of Patricia “Patty” Davis (b. March 31, 1926).
• She turned down a cameo role in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) that starred her daughter Melanie Griffith, because she had just done a cameo role in another film of Melanie’s titled Pacific Heights (1990), and she didn’t want to appear in all of her daughter’s films, only on special occasion.
• Aunt of Robert Hanzlik (b. October 8, 1954) via her sister Patty.
• The June 11, 1969, and also Aug. 20, editions of Variety, in its Hollywood Production Pulse column, shows Tippi Hedren starring with Richard Crenna and Robert Conrad in the movie Seven Against Kansas, directed by David Friedkin, which started filming June 10, 1969, in Almeria, Spain. No evidence if the film was ever completed.
• Her commonly reported birth year was 1935 until she came out with her real age in the mid-’00s.
• Director Sean Baker considered casting Tippi and her real-life granddaughter Dakota Johnson together in his film Starlet (2012) before deciding on Besedka Johnson and Dree Hemingway.
• Dropped out of the film House of Good and Evil (2013) at the last minute because of illness. Her part was recast with actress Marietta Marich.
• Was directed by 5 Academy Awards winners: Alfred Hitchcock(he won the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award, thus qualifying him as an Academy Award winner); Charles Chaplin, John Schlesinger, Alexander Payne and Billy Bob Thornton(he left her scenes on the cutting room floor in Jayne Mansfield’s Car (2012)).
• In the biographical movie The Girl (2012), Tippi (played by Sienna Miller) explained to Alfred Hitchcock (played by Toby Jones) that “Tippi” is a nickname for “Tupsa”, meaning “little girl” or “sweetheart”.
• She turned down the starring role in Eye of the Cat (1969) which was later played by Gayle Hunnicutt.
• Is a fan of actor Johnny Depp and named one of her house cats after him. Even though, she hasn’t met him, her then son-in-law Antonio Banderas acted with him in Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), and her grand daughter Dakota Johnson appeared in two films with him, 21 Jump Street (2012) and Black Mass (2015).
• Met President John F. Kennedy once, when he was on vacation, as she was, in the South of France. Later, she was driving to her horse-riding lesson in preparation for her role in Marnie (1964), when she learned about the President’s assassination. She said that she was “stunned, and very angry”, that the assassination could have happened.
• Actress Sienna Miller portrayed her in the cable movie, The Girl (2012), which dealt with Tippi’s three years with Alfred Hitchcock. She told Miller to portray her as strong, since she rejected Hitchcock’s advances, even though it meant the end of her career as a leading lady. She said she was happy with Miller’s portrayal.
• She was supposed to play the leads in Bedtime Story (1964) (opposite David Niven and Marlon Brando), Mirage (1965) (opposite Gregory Peck and Walter Matthau), and Fahrenheit 451 (1966) (opposite Oskar Werner), but Hitchcock told the directors and producers that she wasn’t available to work with them. Shirley Jones, Diane Baker, and Julie Christie eventually played the parts she was considered for.
• Bridget Fonda, who played her daughter in the straight-to-cable film Break Up (1998), gushed to her about how she had watched Marnie (1964) “a million times”.
• In most of her films (and in all of her films before 1982 except Tiger by the Tail (1970), her character’s name starts with an M: “Melanie Daniels” in The Birds (1963), “Marnie Edgar” in Marnie (1964), “Martha Mears” in A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), “Marla Oaks” in Satan’s Harvest (1970), “Mary Kingstreet” in Mister Kingstreet’s War (1971), “Margaret Tenhausen” in The Harrad Experiment (1973), “Madelaine” in Roar (1981), “Marcia Stevens” in Inevitable Grace (1994), “Maylinda Austed” in I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998), “Martha” in The Darklings (1999), “Michelle Labner” in Searching for Haizmann (2003), “Mary” in Dark Wolf (2003), “Mary Jane” in I Heart Huckabees (2004), and “Minnie” in Dead Write (2007).
• Of all her films, Marnie (1964) continues to be her favorite film, because of the complex title character. This is even more telling, considering all the problems that reportedly took place during the filming, which spelled the end of her professional relationship with the film’s director Alfred Hitchcock, as well as the mixed critical reception and the indifferent box office results upon the film’s release.
• Found it touching when Sean Connery, her leading man from Marnie (1964), publicly said that she was underrated while almost everyone in Hollywood was overrated.
• Requested director Alfred Hitchcock to give her the fur coat that she wore in The Birds (1963), and he graciously gave it to her but charged it to the production company. Eventually, she stopped wearing fur after she became an animal rights activist.
• One of her favorite sweet treats is Marnie’s red velvet cake, which she named after her character from the film of the same name Marnie (1964). She graciously provided the recipe for this three-layer cake to a website called high-societea.com, which specializes in articles on tea and accompanying treats.
• Attended Suzanne Pleshette’s funeral in 2008. They starred together in The Birds (1963).
• British neo-progressive band Landmarq have a song titled “Tippi Hedren” on their 1992 album “Solitary Witness”.
• Her performance as Melanie Daniels in The Birds (1963) is ranked #86 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
• She met with Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville for the final time in London, England, in 1966, while she was filming Charles Chaplin’s last film, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967). They took her to tea at Claridge’s. The atmosphere was tense because she knew Hitchcock was upset that she had been cast in what was expected to be a big film, and he was unable to hide his bitterness.
• Has a sister named Patty Davis.
• Friend of Linda Blair, Rod Taylor and Diane McBain.
• Her store owner father, Bernard Hedren, was of Swedish descent, and her school teacher mother, Dorathea (Eckhardt), was of half German and half Norwegian ancestry.
• Operates an exotic animal sanctuary which prompted her testimony in February 2005 in Riverside Superior Court. Hedren made a complaint regarding animal cruelty by a tiger rescuer and was told by U.S. Department of Agriculture that there were not enough inspectors to respond to her complaint. She eventually made room for a lion rather than have it go to the rescuer. She stated she felt like she was walking through a trash dump.
• Former mother-in-law of Steven Bauer, Don Johnson and Antonio Banderas.
• Grandmother of Alexander Bauer, Dakota Johnson, and Stella Banderas.
• Alfred Hitchcock saw her in a 1962 commercial aired during the Today (1952) show and cast her in The Birds (1963). In the commercial for a diet drink, she is seen walking down a street and a man whistles at her slim, attractive figure, and she turns her head with an acknowledging smile. In the opening scene of The Birds (1963), the same thing happens as she walks toward the bird shop. This was an inside joke by Hitchcock.
• Received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7060 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on January 30, 2003.
• 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, then 10 years old, came to her after a school health lecture and begged her to stop.
• Participated in panel at University of Illinois on “Hitchcock, Women and Terror”, October 2001.
• Lobbying for passage of Shambala Wild Animal Protection Act.
• She named one of her housecats after Sean Connery, her co-star in Marnie (1964).
• Tried to be a vegetarian but it didn’t work out for her.
• Director Alfred Hitchcock unsuccessfully pursued a relationship with her during the filming of Marnie (1964).
• Presides over The Roar Foundation, an animal preserve outside of Los Angeles.
• Gave birth to her only child at age 27, a daughter Melanie Griffith on August 9, 1957. Child’s father was her 1st ex-husband, Peter Griffith.
• At the end of shooting Mister Kingstreet’s War (1971), 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.

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