Tippi Hedren, born in New Ulm, Minnesota in 1930, was a fashion model when Alfred Hitchcock cast her opposite Rod Taylor in The Birds (1963). He tried to keep her under a personal contract and directed her again in Marnie (1964), an experience Hedren has long described as coercive. In the 1970s she moved onto a ranch outside Los Angeles with big cats to shoot Roar (1981), which she and her family financed for over a decade. Founder of the Shambala Preserve and mother of Melanie Griffith, she remained an animal welfare advocate into her nineties. Read more