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Liv Tyler (born on July 1, 1977 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New YorkBuell, B and Bockris, V: "Rebel Heart", page 164. St. Martin's Griffin, reprint edition, 2002, ISBN 0-312-30155-3.) is an American actress most famous for her roles in the 1998 blockbuster movie Armageddon and for her portrayal of Arwen in the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003).

Tyler is the 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. Liv's mother named her after Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann. In the 1980's Bebe Buell was romantically involved with Stiv Bators, when Bebe was pregnant with then-infant Liv Tyler, and Bators lived with the two of them in Bangor, Maine for a period.

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 on, having been 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) 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 Eugene Onegin 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.

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 Italian, German, Russian and Cherokee Indian on her father's side.

Filmography

• Smother (2007) (currently in pre-production)
• Strangers (2007) (currently in pre-production)
• Reign Over Me (2007) as Angela (currently in post-production)
• Lonesome Jim (2005) as Anika
• Jersey Girl (2004) as Maya
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) as Arwen Undómiel
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) as Arwen Undómiel
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) as Arwen Undómiel
• One Night at McCool's (2001) as Jewel
• Dr. T & the Women (2000) as Marilyn
• Onegin (1999) as Tatyana Larina
• Cookie's Fortune (1999) as Emma Duvall
• Plunkett and MacLeane (1999) as Lady Rebecca Gibson
• Armageddon (1998) as Grace Stamper
• U Turn (1997) as Girl in Bus Station
• Inventing the Abbotts (1997) as Pamela Abbott
• That Thing You Do! (1996) as Faye Dolan
• Stealing Beauty (1996) as Lucy Harmon
• Empire Records (1995) as Corey Mason
• Heavy (1995) as Callie
• Silent Fall (1994) as Sylvie Warden

References

External links

• Lovely Liv Tyler, a website endorsed by Liv Tyler

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