Liv Tyler

Liv Rundgren Tyler (born July 1, 1977) is an American actress and former model. She is best known for her roles of Grace Stamper in Armageddon and Arwen in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. She is the daughter of Aerosmith's singer, Steven Tyler.

Tyler was born Liv Rundgren at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, New York City, New York. She is the first born daughter of Bebe Buell, a model, singer, and was the Playboy Playmate of the month Miss November 1974, and Steven Tyler, the lead singer of Aerosmith. Her maternal grandmother, Dorothea Johnson, founded the Protocol School of Washington. Her mother named her after Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann. At birth, Bebe Buell claimed that rock star Todd Rundgren was Tyler's biological father. Tyler spent most of her childhood living with that understanding, only finding her true parentage at age nine, after meeting Steven Tyler at a Rundgren concert in Boston. Also, when Tyler was growing up, Steven Tyler started coming to visit. Then at another meeting in 1988, seeing that Steven Tyler's other daughter, Mia, looked very similar to herself, she asked her mother. The truth about Tyler's paternity did not become public until 1991, when she changed her name from Rundgren to Tyler, but kept the old one as a middle name. Buell's reason for the decision was that Steven Tyler was too heavily addicted to drugs at that time. Since knowing the truth about her paternity, Liv and Steven Tyler have had a close relationship. They have even made their careers intertwine when Liv performed in Aerosmith's video "Crazy" and when Aerosmith wrote and performed many of the songs in Liv's movie Armageddon.

Tyler went to the Congressional School of Virginia, Breakwater Elementary and Wayneflete schools (in Portland, Maine) before returning to New York City with her mother at the age of twelve. She went to York Prep in NYC for Junior High and High School, graduating in 1995. One month later Tyler set off for Italy, to star in Stealing Beauty.

 Filmography 

YearTitleRole Notes and Awards 1994  Silent Fall  Sylvie Warden  1995  Heavy  Callie  Empire Records  Corey Mason  1996 Stealing Beauty  Lucy Harmon  That Thing You Do!  Faye Dolan  1997 Inventing the Abbotts  Pamela Abbott  U Turn  Girl in Bus Station Cameo appearance 1998  Armageddon  Grace Stamper Nominated for MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance 1999 Plunkett & Macleane  Lady Rebecca Gibson  Cookie's Fortune  Emma Duvall  Onegin  Tatyana Larina  Won Russian Guild of movie Critics Award for Best Foreign Actress 2000  Dr. T & the Women  Marilyn  2001  One Night at McCool's  Jewel  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring  Arwen Undómiel Nominated for SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a CastWon Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble Acting 2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers  Arwen Undómiel Nominated for SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a CastWon Online movie Critics Society Award for Best EnsembleWon Phoenix movie Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble Acting 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King  Arwen Undómiel  Won SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a CastWon BFCA award for Best Acting EnsembleWon National Board of Review award for Best Acting by an Ensemble Nominated for Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble 2004  Jersey Girl  Maya  2005 Lonesome Jim  Anika  2007 Reign Over Me  Dr. Angela Oakhurst  2008 The Strangers  Kristen The Incredible Hulk  Betty Ross  Smother (movie)  Clare Cooper  2017  Morning, Mandela  Queen Ray 

 References 

 Other websites 

 Lovely Liv Tyler , a website endorsed by Liv Tyler

Category:1977 births
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Category:Actors from Manhattan
Category:American movie actors
Category:Models from Manhattan
Category:Models from Maine
Category:American television actors
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Category:Actors from Portland, Maine