Tippi Hedren’s Love for Big Cats

Tippi Hedren, who is Dakota Johnson’s grandma, is the original “tiger queen.” Johnson told the New York Post in 2020 that her grandma has since scaled down from keeping 60 tigers and lions to only 13 or 14. “The Birds” star even shared the screen with her big cats in the indie film “Roar.”

Filming the production wasn’t without incident, and there were 70 reported on-set injuries. Johnson’s mom, Melanie Griffith, got tongues wagging when she snapped a photo in 1971 while swimming in their Sherman Oaks family pool. What made the photo even more iconic was how it captured her playfully interacting with Neil, one of their massive lions.