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Liv Tyler (born Liv Rundgren, on July 1, 1977, at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New York[1]) is an American actress and model. She is best known for her roles of
Grace Stamper in Armageddon and Arwen in The Lord of the Rings
trilogy.
Liv is the first born daughter of Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith, and Bebe Buell, a model and singer. However, at birth
Buell claimed that rock star Todd Rundgren was her biological father. She
spent most of her childhood living with that understanding. Liv only discovered
her true parentage at age 9, after meeting Tyler at a Rundgren concert in
Boston. Then at another meeting in 1988, noticing that Tyler's other daughter,
Mia, looked very similar to
herself, she asked her mother point blank. The truth about her paternity however
did not become public until 1991. She then changed her name from Rundgren to
Tyler, but kept the former as a middle name. Buell's reason for the initial
decision was that Steven Tyler was too heavily addicted to drugs at that
time.
Liv's father was also rumored to be Ritchie Blackmore, guitarist of Deep Purple and Rainbow. The rumor
was started by Elissa Perry, the wife of Aerosmith guitarist Joe
Perry, who apparently wanted to put doubt into Tyler's mind that he might be
the father. Tyler has since denounced the fabricated story as a lie on VH1's Behind The Music devoted to Aerosmith. [2]
In 1979-80, when Liv was two and three years old, Buell was romantically
involved with Stiv Bators.
Bators lived with Liv and her mother in Portland, Maine, for a portion of the period when Buell kept a
house in the area.
Liv attended the Congressional School of Virginia, Breakwater Elementary
School and Waynflete School before returning to New York City with her mother at
the age of 12. She went to York Prep in NYC for Junior High and High School,
graduating in 1995. One month later Liv set off for Italy, to star in Stealing Beauty.
Starting a career as a model at the age of fifteen, Liv appeared on the
covers of magazines and starred in commercials for makeup. However, after
becoming bored with modeling less than a year after starting to model, she
quickly moved into acting. She first became known to TV audiences when she
starred alongside Alicia Silverstone in the music video for the Aerosmith song, Crazy, in 1993. The decision to cast her was based on the video's
creators having seen her in a Pantene
commercial, with absolutely no knowledge that her father was in the band.
Later, she was cast almost simultaneously for Silent Fall and Heavy; the filming of Heavy was
delayed until she became available. By the age of 20, she had already starred in
several successful movies, including Stealing Beauty, That Thing You
Do! and Inventing the Abbotts.
Her appearance in Armageddon, which was released on her
21st birthday, brought her to the attention of a wide public. The
film incidentally included the song, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing",
by her father's band. However, she has proven herself a capable actress starring
in such films as Onegin, based on the 19th century Russian novel by Alexander Pushkin), in which she portrayed
the character of Tatyana Larina. She also appeared in two movies directed by Robert Altman, Cookie's
Fortune and Dr. T & the Women.
Her most successful role came in the Lord of the Rings
trilogy, in which she played Arwen
Undómiel. In 2007 she was chosen to star alongside Edward Norton in the upcoming The Incredible Hulk.
Tyler was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most
Beautiful People in the World in 1997. She was also voted the 6th Sexiest Female
Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine in September 2002, and #2 in
TheAge.com's "Top 100: Natural Beauties of all time" in 2004.
In 2003 she became the spokesperson for Parfums Givenchy.
Starting a career as a model at the age of fifteen, Liv appeared on the
covers of magazines and starred in commercials for makeup. However, after
becoming bored with modeling less than a year after starting to model, she
quickly moved into acting. She first became known to TV audiences when she
starred alongside Alicia Silverstone in the music video for the Aerosmith song, Crazy, in 1993. The decision to cast her was based on the video's
creators having seen her in a Pantene
commercial, with absolutely no knowledge that her father was in the band.
Later, she was cast almost simultaneously for Silent Fall and Heavy; the filming of Heavy was
delayed until she became available. By the age of 20, she had already starred in
several successful movies, including Stealing Beauty, That Thing You
Do! and Inventing the Abbotts.
Her appearance in Armageddon, which was released on her
21st birthday, brought her to the attention of a wide public. The
film incidentally included the song, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing",
by her father's band. However, she has proven herself a capable actress starring
in such films as Onegin, based on the 19th century Russian novel by Alexander Pushkin), in which she portrayed
the character of Tatyana Larina. She also appeared in two movies directed by Robert Altman, Cookie's
Fortune and Dr. T & the Women.
Her most successful role came in the Lord of the Rings
trilogy, in which she played Arwen
Undómiel. In 2007 she was chosen to star alongside Edward Norton in the upcoming The Incredible Hulk.
Tyler was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most
Beautiful People in the World in 1997. She was also voted the 6th Sexiest Female
Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine in September 2002, and #2 in
TheAge.com's "Top 100: Natural Beauties of all time" in 2004.
In 2003 she became the spokesperson for Parfums Givenchy.
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