Name: Liv Tyler

Birth Name: Liv Tyler

Birthdate: July 1, 1977

Birthplace: New York

The daughter of Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler and model Bebe Buell, Tyler thought she was really the daughter of singer Todd Rundgren until she was told the truth at age 9, and she didn't meet her father until 1988. She began her career in modeling, but gave that up to get into acting. Her breakthrough role came in Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty (1996), and she's best-known today for portraying elf princess Arwen in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.


1. She's never taken acting lessons but was offered the female lead in James Mangold's Heavy after only one reading.
2. One of her first jobs was appearing in the video for Aerosmith's "Crazy." She was cast based on her work in a commercial; she didn't even know it was her father's song.
3. She has always felt awkward being tall, and she disliked modeling.
4. At the 1999 Academy Awards, she introduced Aerosmith's Oscar-nominated song "Don't Want to Miss a Thing," from Armageddon, in which she starred.
5. Model Paulina Porizkova was a family friend.


"My mother always used to tell me I was such a drama queen and I was going to be an actress. And I was, like, 'Really? I want to be a singer!'"
— InStyle, February 2004

Husband: Royston Langdon, musician and former lead vocalist of band Spacehog; born May 1, 1972; married March 25, 2003
Son: Milo William Langdon, born Dec. 14, 2004

 

FILMS

The Incredible Hulk - (2008) - Actor
Reign Over Me - (2007) - Actor
Lonesome Jim - (2006) - Actor
Jersey Girl - (2004) - Actor
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - (2003) - Actor
Pearl Harbor/Armageddon - (2002) - Actor
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - (2002) - Actor
One Night at McCool's - (2001) - Actor
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - (2001) - Actor
Dr. T and the Women - (2000) - Actor
Cookie's Fortune - (1999) - Actor
Onegin - (1999) - Actor
Armageddon - (1998) - Actor
Inventing the Abbotts - (1997) - Actor
U Turn - (1997) - Actor
Stealing Beauty - (1996) - Actor
That Thing You Do! - (1996) - Actor
Silent Fall - (1995) - Actor
Empire Records - (1995) - Actor
Heavy - (1994) - Actor
The Strangers - () - Actor