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July 1st, 2008 - Happy Birthday Liv Tyler!
By Allie | July 1, 2008
Liv Rundgren Tyler (born July 1, 1977) is an American actress and model.
She’s 31!
She is the daughter of Aerosmith’s frontman, Steven Tyler and model, singer Bebe Buell.
Tyler began a career in modeling at the age of fourteen, but quickly decided to focus on acting. Her first notable role was appearing alongside Alicia Silverstone in the music video for Aerosmith’s song “Crazy” in 1993.
At age fifteen she made her film debut in the 1994 film Silent Fall. Following her performance in Silent Fall, Tyler starred in her breakthrough performance in 1996’s Stealing Beauty. In 1998, she starred opposite Ben Affleck in Armageddon, which became a summer blockbuster. Tyler then went onto portray elf princess Arwen Undómiel in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. After a brief hiatus, she returned back to acting in which she starred in the horror-thriller The Strangers and portrayed Betty Ross in The Incredible Hulk.
Tyler was born Liv Rundgren at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New York. She is the first born daughter of Bebe Buell, a model, singer, and former Playboy Playmate (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 after seeing Ullmann on the cover of the March 5th 1977 issue of TV Guide. At birth, Buell claimed that rock star Todd Rundgren was Tyler’s biological father. Tyler discovered her true parentage at age nine. She discovered that she was Steven Tyler’s daughter after meeting him and noticing a resemblance she shared with his other daughter, Mia. When she asked her mother about the similarity, the secret was revealed.
The truth about Tyler’s paternity did not become public until 1991, when she changed her name from Rundgren to Tyler, but kept the former as a middle name. Buell’s alleged reason for the initial decision was that Steven was too heavily addicted to drugs at the time of her birth. Since learning the truth about her paternity, Tyler and Steven have developed a close relationship. They have also worked together professionally, once when she performed in Aerosmith’s video for “Crazy” and again when Aerosmith wrote and performed many of the songs in the film Armageddon, in which Tyler starred.
Starting a career as a model at the age of fifteen, Tyler appeared on the covers of magazines and starred in commercials. However, she became bored with her modeling career less than a year after it started, and moved into acting. She never took acting lessons.
Personal Life:
Tyler dated actor Joaquin Phoenix from 1995 to November 1998; she was a vegan (like Phoenix) during the relationship. The couple met on the set of Inventing the Abbotts.
On March 25, 2003, Tyler married British musician Royston Langdon of the band Spacehog in Barbados. On December 14, 2004, she gave birth to a son, Milo William Langdon, in a New York hospital. On May 8, 2008, Tyler and Langdon confirmed through representatives that they would be separating but remain friends. She lives in New York City.
She is good friends with designer Stella McCartney, model Helena Christensen and actresses Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow. She is signed to IMG Models in New York City.
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Karen Black-Actress -69
Deborah Harry-Singer -63
Trevor Eve-Actor -57
Dan Aykroyd-Actor -56
Pamela Anderson-Actress -41
Missy Elliott-Rapper -37
Hilarie Burton-Actress -26
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