13. Tippi Hedren
Tippi Hedren is one very interesting lady whose life and career read like a book that most of the readers would dismiss as being too random and out there. For example, for decades, everyone was convinced that she was born in 1935. She was actually born in 1930, in a town of New Ulm, Minnesota. Her family moved to Minneapolis where she started her career as a fashion model.
In 1961, she was discovered by none other than Alfred Hitchcock who gave her her first role in The Birds. She then starred in Hitchcock’s next movie Marnie. She acted in more than 80 other movies, but those are still two of her most famous ones.
Other random tidbits about her life include the fact that she founded the Shambala Preserve; she was instrumental in the development of Vietnamese-American nail salons; she is the mother of Melanie Griffith and grandmother of Dakota Johnson.