Liv Tyler Biography

Birth Name : Liv Rundgren Tyler

Date of Birth : 1 July 1977, New York City, New York, USA

Height : 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Occupation : Actress

Liv Tyler was born on July 1, 1977, in Portland, Maine. Her mother, Bebe Buell, a model and former Playboy playmate, allowed her daughter to believe her father was Todd Rundgren. She spent the first twelve years of her life as Liv Rundgren. When her biological father, Steven Tyler, began coming around with his daughter Mia, Liv Tyler noticed that they looked almost identical and her mother told her the truth. She changed her last name from Rundgren to Tyler.At the age of fourteen, Liv Tyler tried her hand at modeling, but soon turned her sights to acting. In 1994 she was cast with Alicia Silverstone in the video for Aerosmith's song Crazy and the provocative video helped to popularize the song and get Liv Tyler noticed.Shortly thereafter, Tyler was cast in two films, Silent Fall in 1994 and Heavy in 1995.

Liv Tyler's career began with fashion modeling and press curiosity over the fact that she was the daughter of legendary rock band Aerosmith's front man Steven Tyler. But she quickly transcended her rock royalty status and proved to be a considerable talent on the big screen, lending a beguiling luminous beauty and a calming kindness to independent films like Bernardo Bertolucci's "Stealing Beauty" (1996). Hollywood was at somewhat of a loss over Tyler's unusual onscreen presence, which was too mature and ethereal for standard teen films. She was underused in blockbusters like "Armageddon" (1998) but steadily created empathetic and introspective characters for independent directors like Robert Altman and James Mangold. Her highest profile films were Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, which deftly melded Tyler's otherworldly serenity with a hugely popular fantasy franchise. After she hit the age of 30, the actress yearned to stretch her range and reached larger audiences with the thriller "The Strangers" (2008) and the comic adaptation "The Incredible Hulk" (2008).