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Biography
Liv was born on July 1st, 1977 in New York in the name of Liv Rundgren.
Her mom Bebe Buell, and her mom's life-partner Todd Rundgren, raised her as parents.
Liv thought her dad was Todd Rundgren.
Shortly after Liv's birth, her mom broke up with Todd and moved up with Liv to Portland, Maine.
In her childhood, Liv was living discursively with her mom, her aunt Annie at Maine, and her grandmother Dorothea Johnson at Virginia. Already as a little girl, she loved to perform - dress up in her mothers cloths and make up and put on a show in front of her mother's friends. Liv insists that she was a normal kid, just incredibly tall compared to her class-mates and chubby ...
Liv found out that her real father is Steven Tyler at the age of 9. it was at an Aerosmith concert.
Liv began to suspect earlier: "I didn't know what it was, but I started to see him more, and it would mean so much to me that I would write about it in my diary," she says. "I was very confused.", Aerosmith's concert put an end to the suspects.
Liv's half-sister Mia (the second daughter of Steven Tyler), whom Liv never saw before, was in that concert too.
When Liv saw that she looked remarkably like her, she had no doubt - Steven Tyler's daugher is her sister - which means that the man who's performing on stage is her father.
Later that evening, Liv's mom told her the truth: "I turned to my mom and said, 'He's my father, isn't he ?', and we went out under a tree and talked and cried for two hours."
At the age of 12 Liv changed her last name to Tyler.
Career
When Liv was 14 she moved back with her mom to NY.
A friend of the family, Paulina Porizkova - a famous model herself - convinced Liv to start modeling - and the rest is history ...
Instantly Liv's career as a model sky-rocketed, and Liv found herself on the cover of big Magazines like Seventeen, Interview and Mirabella.
Liv's first major revelation to the world came in 1994, when she was 16, in Aerosmith's clip - Crazy.
Liv was embarrassed by her sexy appearances - but got the adoration of millions of teenagers around the world.
Father was happy too ;-)
At that year Liv started filming her first 2 movies - Silent Fall and Heavy.
Liv tasted it, and liked it! She decided to quit modeling and concentrate on her acting career.
At age 17, Liv filmed her 3rd movie - Empire Records, but her breakthrough came from her next film - Stealing Beauty. The legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci chose Liv over hundreds of actresses.
Liv got acclaims on her performance, and was the highlight of '96 Cannes film festival where giant photos of her peered placidly from billboards all over town.
This film established Liv as a Movie Star - performing opposite other stars like Tom Hanks (That Thing You Do!) and Bruce Willis (Armageddon) and working with best directors around.
Liv chooses her films carefully. She avoids big movies and prefers the smaller, more quality ones.
Her movies include Inventing The Abbotts, with her former boyfriend Joaquin Phoenix, Cookie's Fortune by Robert Altman, Plunkett & Macleane and Onegin with Ralph Fiennes.
Liv has been working very hard in the last 3 years, her movies includes Dr. T and the Women - another comedy by Robert Altman along with Richard Gere and Kate Hudson, One Night At McCool's - the major role in a black comedy along with Michael Douglas, Matt Dillon, John Goodman and Paul Raiser and Lord Of The Rings movie series - 3 movies based on the famous trilogy by J.R.R Tolkien - in the role of Arwen the elf princess.
What's next for Liv ?
Liv is working now on Her newest movie called Jersey Girl - which she stars along with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez and directed by Kevin Smith.
Rumors has connected her to portrait Bettie Page - a famous "pin-up queen" of the 50's.
In the private level, Liv got engaged in February 2001. The lucky guy is Royston Langdon - a musician, also known as the lead singer of the Rock band - Spacehog.
More than 2 years afterwards, in March 25th 2003, Liv and Roy got married in a private ceremony at a villa in the Caribbean.
... yep, Liv is a married woman!
Liv - the person
Despite her star status and her fame, Liv is known by her "down to earth" attitude, charm and kindness. The word "arrogance" doesn't exist in her lexicon.
Somehow Liv managed to keep her private life just that. The restraint has served Liv well, making her seem more mature than many of her peers and, perhaps, even her parents.
She doesn't care for the nightclubbing high lifestyle and has said she envies her friends' college days.
Not that she's unhappy. "A lot has happened these last couple of years. But it's exhilarating," she said in '96, "It doesn't feel like too much. At least, not more than I can handle."
Dad agrees: "Liv has got all the talent in the world, but she also has the character to go with the talent, And she sure as hell didn't get that from me!"
I N T E R E S T I N G
She never took acting lessons
She cut her hair short in 1998 for "Cookie's Fortune"
Dyed her hair red in 1999 for "One Night At McCool's"
She did several commercials including: "Bongo" Jeans, "Pantene" Shampoo, "Lux" Shampoo and others
She started smoking cigarettes at the age 15, and quit smoking at the age of 25
She says she likes tall, skinny guys with messy hair
She is taller than her boyfriend and her ex-boyfriend
Her mom Bebe Buell was a famous model and a Rock & Roll groupie. She used to hang out with many Rock & Roll stars, and in fact she's a Rock & Roll singer herself. No doubt Liv inherited much of her looks from her, especially the blue eyes and the height (Bebe is 5'9.5", Liv is 5'10").
Her grandmother Dorothea Johnson (Bebe's mother) is an etiquette consultant and manages an etiquette school in Washington. And guess what ? - She was a model too!
She turned down twice the role in "Armageddon"
Her half-sister Mia is a plus-size model
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Quotes
"In Armageddon we have a wedding scene where everyone is smashing cake in everyone else's faces. I got up to Liv with a piece of cake, but I just couldn't smash it in her face. I felt bad. I didn't want to ruin her makeup!"
-Ben Affleck, Armageddon costar
Seventeen, August 1998
"I loved when we did the scene in That Thing You Do! where the Wonders hear their song on the radio for the first time. Tom Hanks told me and Liv to just start jumping around like two slaphappy fools.We said.'We'll look like geeks.' But once Liv started to jump and scream, we got into it. Her laugh is infectious."
-Johnathon Schaech, That Thing You Do! costar
Seventeen, August 1998
"We had a blast doing those Aerosmith videos. It was really fun, and we became close friends. Liv is really down to earth, and she is a great girl"
Alicia Silverstone
Seventeen, August 1998
"With Liv, I used to be the one to say I was so sorry about not making Thanksgiving or Christmas, because I was on the road. Now Liv calls on the phone and says, 'Sorry, really busy, gotta go.'"
-Steven Tyler, Lead singer of Aerosmith
Seventeen, August 1998
"She was so funny during the audition (for Stealing Beauty). Her ears turned red because she was so nervous and her stomach made all these incredible noises. I asked her 'Did you eat breakfast?'"
-Bernardo Bertolucci, Stealing Beauty director
Seventeen, August 1998
"She was really polite- she was a free spirit without any pretentions and was nice to everyone on the shoot. Also, she wanted to do her own lips."
-Daniel Howell, hair and makeup artist for Cloutier Agency
Seventeen, August 1998
"Liv (or Sport-Fuck, as I call her) is that rare breed of actor who can do every line in the script without changing a word, and still craft a better character than was written. Maya worked fine on the page, but Sport-Fuck breathed life into her in such a way that, as I'm cutting her scenes, I'm not editing Liv's stuff, I'm cutting Maya. It's all about inflection and character -- Sport-Fuck inflected herself to the most believable performance I've ever shot. She may be a horrible speller, but fuck if she isn't an insanely great actress. If you don't fall in love with her in this movie (and I'm including you in on this equation, ladies), then you're a robot, and your primary directive is to go rip a heart out of someone's chest and solder it into yours."
-Kevin Smith, Jersey Girl director
Jersey Girl Diary (Movie Poop Shoot), December 2002
The facts
Birth name:Liv Rundgren
Birthdate: July 1, 1977 Birthplace:Portland, ME
Occupations:Actor, Model
Significant Other(s): Joaquin Phoenix: actor; met during filming of Inventing the Abbotts; broke up fall 1998
Royston Langdon: musician with band Spacehog; began dating fall 1998
Family
Father: Steven Tyler, musician; lead singer of Aerosmith
Mother: Bebe Buell, model; had eight-month romance with Steven Tyler while still living with Todd Rundgren; lived with Rundgren 1971-79; had subsequent relationships with Rod Stewart and Elvis Costello
Stepfather: Todd Rundgren, musician; listed as Tyler's father on her birth certificate; raised her until 1988
Stepfather: Coyote Stevens (aka Coyote Shivers), musician; born in 1967; Tyler's mother filed for divorce in 1998 after seven years of marriage; costarred with Tyler in Empire Records
Half-sister:Mia Tyler, model; born in 1978; daughter of Steven Tyler and model Cyrinda Foxe
Half-sister: Chelsea Tyler; born in 1988
Stepbrother:Rex Rundgren; son of Todd Rundgren; Tyler considers him a brother; they were raised together
Stepbrother: Randy Rundgren; son of Todd Rundgren
Stepbrother: Taj Tyler son of Steven Tyler and wife Teresa .
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