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Real Name:
Nickname: Liver
D.O.B: 1 July 1977
Place of Birth: Portland, Maine, USA
Family: two sisters, one brother
Height: 5' 10"
Husband: Royston Langdon
Fan Mail:
C/O Creative Artists Agency
9830 Wilshire Blvd Beverly Hills, CA
90212 USA
Tid Bits:
� Liv's mother named her after Liv Ullmann because she was on the cover of TV Guide the week Liv was born.
� A cameo role in Everyone Says I Love You (1996), a musical directed by Woody Allen was cut; Allen was impressed enough by her performance to write a personal letter explaining that her part was cut in editing.
� Her half-sister, Mia Tyler, is a plus size fashion model for Lane Bryant.
� Is dyslexic.
� Is a vegetarian.
� During filming for 'Lord of the Rings', Liv left her pair of prosthetic ears on the dashboard of her car. When she returned, they had melted.
� Hates piercings and tattoos.
� Quit smoking after 11years (started at age 14).
� She never took acting lessons
� Her mom Bebe Buell was a famous model and a Rock & Roll groupie, in fact she's a Rock & Roll singer herself. No doubt Liv inherited much of her looks from her, especially the blue eyes and the height (Bebe is 5'9.5", Liv is 5'10").
� Her grandmother Dorothea Johnson (Bebe's mother) is an etiquette consultant and manages an etiquette school in Washington. And guess what ? - She was a model too!
� She turned down twice the role in "Armageddon"
Biography:
Liv Tyler was born July 1, 1977, in Portland, Maine in the name of Liv Rundgren. The love child of an eight-month-long relationship between former Ford model, Playboy Playmate, sometime singer, and rock groupie Bebe Buell and full-lipped Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.
Her unique first name can be traced after her mother saw Liv Ullmann on the cover of a TV Guide the week Liv was born. As for the roots of her last name, little Liv grew up believing that her mother's long-term boyfriend, rock musician Todd Rundgren, was her father. After all, her birth certificate said so. 10-year-old Liv became suspicious after meeting Aerosmith's Steven Tyler at a Rundgren concert, and even more suspicious after seeing Tyler's daughter Mia, who could have passed for Liv's twin, at an Aerosmith concert. Liv confronted her mother about the topic, and her mother told her the truth: Steven Tyler was her father. Liv made her biological father's name her own at the age of 12. She has since remarked shruggingly of the whole situation, "It was the seventies."
2 years later, mother and daughter headed to New York. While Liv grew into a statuesque, blue-eyed beauty (she had her father's unmistakable pouty, Mick Jagger-like lips), she claims she was chubby and awkward while growing up.
Liv started modeling at fourteen after a family friend, Paulina Porizkova, succeeded in coaxing her out of her baggy blue jeans long enough to pose for some portfolio Polaroids. Topping off at over five-foot-ten, and endowed with blazing blue eyes, flawless porcelain skin, and coltish limbs, Liv was a natural, and within just a few months, began decorating such fashion magazines as Seventeen and Mirabella. While shooting a commercial on location in the stifling, mosquito-infested Amazon the following year, Liv somehow decided she wanted to act more than anything else. Not long after that, an agent read about the intriguing lass in an article in �The New York Times� concerning children of the rich and famous, and Liv was officially "discovered." Her first feature role was as the older sister of an autistic boy in Silent Fall (1994); Liv went 0-for-2 with her less-than-memorable follow-up film, Empire Records (1995). The film was such a stultifying experience for the neophyte that she nearly abandoned acting altogether. But Liv persevered, and rebounded nicely with a role in the low-budget indie film Heavy, and a break-out performance in Stealing Beauty.
Liv is most definitely the product of newfangled parenting. A permissive upbringing by Buell conferred upon Liv a remarkably level head. To give credit where it's due, Buell evidenced quite a savvy business head when it came to managing the early stages of Liv's modeling and acting careers. She had the foresight to steer her daughter away from a proffered lead in the sexploitative embarrassment Showgirls, and lapsed in sound judgment only when it came to Liv's appearance with rival teen goddess Alicia Silverstone in her father's now-classic music video for Aerosmith's "Crazy" in 1994. By virtue of her sassy romping about in a silver bra, Liv became an instant sex symbol� a "video vixen"� to a slavering following of what her mother calls "psychos." Who would have guessed? As for Steven Tyler, he and his progeny have become fast friends in the years since their rapprochement� in fact, one of their favorite things to do together is to have "slumber parties" at which they swap beauty tips and give each other facials. Says Tyler of his contribution to Liv's personhood, "What she inherited from me was just the great art of being herself."
Liv's next acting triumphs came in Tom Hanks's directorial debut, That Thing You Do!, in which she played the groupie-girlfriend of a small-town band circa 1964, and in Inventing the Abbotts, in which she co-starred with Joaquin Phoenix, with whom she had a 2-year relationship. After a tiny role in U Turn and an uncredited role in Can't Hardly Wait, Liv starred as Bruce Willis' daughter in the summer blow-up hit, Armageddon, which opened on her birthday. In 1999, Liv rounded out a stellar cast in Cookie's Fortune, appeared in Plunkett & Macleane, co-starred with Ralph Fiennes in Onegin, and appeared as herself in the documentary, Franky Goes to Hollywood.
Liv has been working very hard in the last 3 years, her movies includes Dr. T and the Women - another comedy by Robert Altman along with Richard Gere and Kate Hudson, One Night At McCool's - the major role in a black comedy along with Michael Douglas, Matt Dillon, John Goodman and Paul Raiser and Lord Of The Rings movie series - 3 movies based on the famous trilogy by J.R.R Tolkien - in the role of Arwen the elf princess. Liv is working now on her newest movie called Jersey Girl - which she stars along with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.
Liv's romances have been well examined by the Hollywood tabloids. She dated "Gladiator" star Joaquin Phoenix for nearly three years. She also dated Johnny Whitworth for two years. She was also often named the "other woman" in the Bruce Willis / Demi Moore split.
In the private level, Liv got engaged on Valentine�s Day 2001. The lucky guy is Royston Langdon Spacehog's lead singer and bass player, and her steady of 3 years. More than 2 years afterwards, in March 25th 2003, Liv and Roy got married in a private ceremony at a villa in the Caribbean.
Filmography:
� The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (post-production)..... Arwen (2003)
� Jersey Girl (post-production)..... Maya (2003)
� The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers..... Arwen (2002)
� The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (VG) (archive footage)..... Arwen (2002/II)
� The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring..... Arwen (2001)
� One Night at McCool's..... Jewel (2001)
� Dr. T & the Women..... Marilyn (2000)
� Onegin..... Tatyana Larina (1999)
� Cookie's Fortune..... Emma Duvall (1999)
� Plunkett & Macleane..... Lady Rebecca Gibson (1999)
� "Hercules" TV Series (voice)..... Asteria (1998)
� Armageddon..... Grace Stamper (1998)
� Can't Hardly Wait (uncredited)..... Voice of Gum Girl (1998)
� U Turn..... Girl in bus station (1997)
� Inventing the Abbotts..... Pamela Abbott (1997)
� That Thing You Do!..... Faye Dolan (1996)
� Stealing Beauty..... Lucy Harmon (1996)
� Empire Records..... Corey Mason (1995)
� Heavy..... Callie (1995)
� Silent Fall..... Sylvie Warden (1994)
