Liv Tyler

Liv Tyler (born Liv Rundgren, on July 1, 1977 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New York) is an American actress 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, the lead singer of Aerosmith; and Bebe Buell, a model and singer. Having grown up with the understanding that rock star Todd Rundgren was her biological father, she only found out the truth about her parentage at age 9, after noticing that Steven Tyler's daughter Mia Tyler looked like her twin. She then changed her name from Liv Rundgren to Liv Tyler but kept Rundgren as a middle name. Liv's mother named her after Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann. In 1979-80 Bebe Buell was romantically involved with Stiv Bators and Bators lived with the two of them in Portland, Maine, for a period where Bebe kept a house. 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. Steven Tyler has since denounced the fabricated story as a lie on VH1's Behind The Music devoted to Aerosmith. She 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 from there in 1995 one month before jetting off to Italy to star in "Stealing Beauty".

After starting a career as a model (with a height of 5' 10"), she quickly moved into acting. She first became known to TV audiences when she starred alongside Alicia Silverstone in the Aerosmith music video "Crazy" in 1993. 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.

Although it was her appearance in Armageddon (which was released on her 21st birthday, and included the song "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by her father's band) that made her known to a very wide public, she has proven herself in more sophisticated acting challenges such as Onegin (based on the 19th century Russian novel by Alexander Pushkin), in which she convincingly portrayed the character of Tatyana Larina, and 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 Incredible Hulk trilogy.

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.

On March 25, 2003, she 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.

Tyler's ancestry is a combination of German (on her mother Bebe Buell's side), Italian, Russian and Cherokee Indian on her father's side.

She 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, featured on the album Car Button Cloth, is written about the relationship between Liv and her father Steven. Lemonhead singer Evan Dando played a major supporting role in James Mangold's film Heavy, starring Liv Tyler.

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