Date of Birth
1 July 1977, New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name
Liv Rundgren Tyler
Nickname
Liver
Livy
Livy
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Mini Biography
Daughter of Steven Tyler of the band Aerosmith and Bebe
Buell, former model (and Playboy Playmate of the Month) and stalwart of the
backstage rock scene of the 1970s, Liv grew up thinking that rock star Todd Rundgren was her father. But as she was growing
up, Tyler began dropping by to visit, and Liv noticed that his daughter Mia Tyler looked enough like her to be her twin.
She confronted her mother, and was told the truth; by the time she was 12, she
had taken her father's name. At 14, she and her mother left Portland, Maine,
for New York, where she got her start as a model. A year was enough of the
modeling grind, and she decided to become an actress. She was offered the part
of "Callie" in Heavy (1995) after a single reading and,
only three weeks later, was cast inSilent Fall (1994); James Mangold, director of Heavy (1995), decided to delay shooting
until Liv was available. With seven films in the 1993-96 period, her career
took off.
Trade Mark
Pale skin
Black hair
Her voice
Trivia
Liv's mother named
her after Liv Ullmann because she was on the cover of TV
Guide the week Liv was born.
Chosen by
"People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the
World. [1997]
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 fashion model for Lane
Bryant.
Armageddon (1998/I) opened on her 21st birthday.
Is dyslexic.
Aerosmith's video
for "Crazy", in which Liv co-starred with Alicia Silverstone, was voted #23 in
VH1's top 100 music videos of all time.
During filming for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship
of the Ring (2001), she left her
pair of prosthetic ears on the dashboard of her car. When she returned, they
had melted.
Wears a size 10
shoe.
Quit smoking after
starting at age 14. [2002]
Voted the 6th
Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine (September 2002).
Measurements:
34B-25-38 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
Didn't meet her
father until 1988.
Her name Liv means
'life' in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish.
Learned
swordfighting for her role as Arwen in the The
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).
But the script was changed and she never got to use her skills.
Was nicknamed Liv
Taylor by film critics and the media when she first began acting because her
dark hair and striking blue eyes reminded them of Elizabeth Taylor.
The decision to cast
her in the video for "Crazy" was based on seeing her Pantene
commercial, with absolutely no knowledge her father was in the band.
Dated Joaquin Phoenix [1996-1998].
Was born at 6:08 a.m.
She is a
spokesperson for Givenchy Perfume and Cosmetics.
Has three younger
half-siblings: Chelsea Tallarico, Taj Tallarico and Mia
Tyler.
She got married in
Barbados.
Voted #2 in
TheAge.com's Top 100: Natural Beauties of all time. (Audrey Hepburn took the top spot)
Ex-sister-in-law of Dave Buckner.
Gave birth to an
8-lb. son named Milo William Langdon on December 14, 2004, in Manhattan.
Her son Milo was
born on the same day as the release of the Platinum Series Special Extended
Edition of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (December 14, 2004).
She has never taken
acting lessons.
On a TV documentary
about the making of the "Lord of the Rings" movies, she said she
really liked delivering her lines when they were in the fictional Elvish
language.
Her father is of
Cherokee Indian, Russian and Italian descent, and her mother is of French
descent.
Used to be a
vegetarian.
Has a liking for the
English food called Yorkshire pudding and apparently makes them herself.
Recorded a song for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), but because Peter Jackson didn't feel the song was right for the
intended scene, he put it into the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of
the King (2003). Since then, Liv
has stated how much she enjoyed singing and recording and how she has always
felt a strong relationship towards music.
Best friends with Kate Hudson.
Godmother of Marlon
Richards's (Keith Richards's son) children.
Granddaughter of
etiquette books author Dorothea
Johnson.
Is only eight years
younger than Cate Blanchett, but
plays her granddaughter in The Lord of the Rings.
She and her Lord of
the Rings cast mate, John
Rhys-Davies, have both appeared in films about the "Incredible Hulk".
Rhys-Davies plays "Wilson Fisk", AKA The Kingpin, in The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989) (TV), while Tyler played
"Betty Ross" in The
Incredible Hulk (2008). Daredevil
and Kingpin have also been played by her Armageddon (1998/I) cast mates, Ben Affleck and Michael
Clarke Duncan.
Friend of Orlando Bloom, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate
Moss.
Was in a
relationship with actor Johnny
Whitworth (1994-1995).
Ex-stepdaughter of Cyrinda Foxe and Teresa
Barrick.
Daughter of Bebe Buell and Steven
Tyler.
Believed until she
was 8 years old that Todd
Rundgren was her father. Rundgren
and Liv's mother were in a relationship when Liv was born and conceived.
Considers Todd Rundgren, whom she believed to be
her father until she was 8 years old, as her "spiritual dad".
Her two
"dads" Steven Tyler and Todd
Rundgren met for the first time
at her wedding to Royston Langdon.