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| Birth Name(s) : Liv Tyler |
Date of Birth: July 1, 1977 |
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Married
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Partner:
Royston Langdon |
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Full Liv Tyler Biography
Liv Tyler has made a name for herself apart from infamous father Steven Tyler with appearances in Playboy magazine and several feature films. She moved to New York with her mother at 14 to pursue a modeling career and after only a year she decided to try her hand at acting.
Liv's feature film debut was in "Silent Fall" (1994) and she has also starred in "Stealing Beauty" (1996), "Armageddon" (1998) and the much-anticipated "Lord of the Rings" series (2001-03). |
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Additional Liv Tyler Biography
Liv Tyler (born Liv Rundgren, on July 1, 1977, at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New York) 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. 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.
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.
On March 25, 2003, Liv married British musician Royston Langdon of the band Spacehog. On December 14, 2004, she gave birth to a son, Milo William Langdon, in a New York hospital.
Liv's ancestry is a combination of German on her mother's side, and Italian, Russian and Cherokee Indian on her father's side. Liv's mother named her after Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann.
Liv dated actor Joaquin Phoenix from 1995 to November 1998. The couple met on the set of Inventing the Abbotts.
The Lemonheads' song, C'mon Daddy, is written about the relationship between Liv and her father. Lemonheads singer, Evan Dando, played a major supporting role in James Mangold's film, Heavy, in which Liv starred. |
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| I have these slumber parties with my father and when we can't sleep we stay up all night trading beauty tips. He knows all about the good creams and masks. |
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