Liv Tyler Picture 1

Biography

Liv was born on July 1, 1977, in Portland, Maine. She is the daughter of Steven Tyler, the famous front man of the band Aerosmith. Liv's half sister, Mia Tyler, is a fashion model for Lane Bryant. Liv is presently starring as Arwen in the mega-box-office hit "Lord of the Rings- Trilogy", and the smell of an Academy Award lingers in the air. At the age of fourteen, Liv moved to New York to begin a modeling career and decided after a year to become an actress.

At just over five-foot-ten, endowed with blazing blue eyes and flawless porcelain skin, Liv has a unique natural sultry sophistication about her. Liv's childhood story is of an ugly duckling who turned into a swan, beginning as a chubby brace-faced adolescent by her own account. After puberty delivered some decided improvements to her physique, a close family friend Paulina Porizkova, coaxed her out of her baggy blue jeans long enough to pose for some portfolio photographs. Within a few months of the photos, Liv began decorating such fashion magazines as Seventeen and Mirabella.

While shooting a commercial on location in the stifling Amazon the following year, Liv decided she wanted to pursue acting. Ironically, a cinema agent read about the intriguing Liv in an article by The New York Times concerning children of the rich and famous, and officially "discovered" her. Liv's first feature role was as the older sister of an autistic boy in the Bruce Beresford straight-to-video drama "Silent Fall". Liv was the hit of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, where "Stealing Beauty" was entered in competition, and French critics ooh-la-laed over the young actress. In 1997, Liv was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. With this extravagant exposure, Liv became an instant sex symbol video vixen.

Liv's next big act's came in Tom Hanks' directorial debut, "That Thing You Do", in which she played the groupie girlfriend of a small town band, Circa 1964. Her success followed with Pat O'Connor's, "Inventing the Abbotts", in which she played another small town sweetheart. Liv then entered the big budget arena in 1998, co-starring with Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck in Disney's "Armageddon".

Filmography

Jersey Girl (2003) .... Maya
Voltage (2003) .... Lilah
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) .... Arwen Undómiel ('Evenstar')
... aka Return of the King, The (2003) (USA: short title)
Making of 'The Lord of the Rings', The (2002) (V) .... Herself/Arwen Undómiel
Making the Movie (2002) (TV) .... Herself
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) .... Arwen Undómiel ('Evenstar')
... aka Two Towers, The (2002) (USA: short title)
National Geographic: Beyond the Movie - The Lord of the Rings (2001) (TV) .... Herself/Arwen Undómiel
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) .... Arwen
... aka Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) (USA: short title)
... aka Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: The Motion Picture, The (2001) (USA: promotional title)
Passage to Middle-earth: Making of Lord of the Rings, A (2001) (TV) .... Herself
Quest for the Ring (2001) (TV) .... Herself/Arwen Undómiel
One Night at McCool's (2001) .... Jewel
Dr. T & the Women (2000) .... Marilyn

Franky Goes to Hollywood (1999) .... Herself
Onegin (1999) .... Tatyana Larina
Cookie's Fortune (1999) .... Emma Duvall
Plunkett & Macleane (1999) .... Lady Rebecca Gibson
"Hercules" (1998) TV Series (voice) .... Asteria
... aka "Disney's Hercules" (1998) (USA)
Armageddon (1998) .... Grace Stamper
Can't Hardly Wait (1998) (uncredited) (voice) .... Voice of Gum Girl
U Turn (1997) .... Girl in Bus Station
... aka U Turn - Ici commence l'enfer (1998) (France)
Inventing the Abbotts (1997) .... Pamela Abbott
That Thing You Do! (1996) .... Faye Dolan
Stealing Beauty (1996) .... Lucy Harmon
... aka Beauté volée (1996) (France)
... aka Io ballo da sola (1996) (Italy)
Empire Records (1995) .... Corey Mason
... aka Empire (1995/II)
... aka Rock & Fun (1995)
Heavy (1995) .... Callie
Aerosmith: Big Ones You Can Look at (1994) (V) .... Teenage Girl (video 'Crazy')
Silent Fall (1994) .... Sylvie Warden