Liv Tyler Biography


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Liv Tyler
flixster.actor.standard.01.162661412 - flixsterLiv Tyler biography: Liv Rundgren Tyler was born on 1st of July - 1977, and is the daughter of Bebe Buell and Steven Tyler, the Aerosmith leading singer and vocalist. Liv grew up thinking that rock star Todd Rundgren was actually her father but at the age of 12 she was told the truth about her true father.

At the age of 14, she started a career on modelling, but only after a year she decided that her true fate is as an actress. So was it cuz by this point, Liv has some important prizes in her record one of them even a Screen Actors Guild.

She is famous in particular for her roles in Empire Records, Stealing Beauty, That Thing You Do, Armageddon, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Jersey Girl and The Incredible Hulk.


Liv Tyler Quote about family of which she is very attached:

“I believe that a family is very important. You must have someone to come to after work to forget the stressful day."

“I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.”


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Although Liv Rundgren's (Liv Tyler) birth certificate stated her parents were Bebe Buell (model, Playboy Playmate) and Todd Rundgren (Rock Star), her biological father was actually Steve Tyler (Rock Star, lead singer of Aerosmith). Born on July 1, 1977 in Portland, Maine, lovely Liv (nicknamed Liver) was raised by both Bebe and Todd until 1988. At a young age Liv discovered the truth about her biological father.

"I have these slumber parties with my father and when we can't sleep we stay up all night trading beauty tips. He knows all about the good creams and masks." Liv Tyler

"Those smells that remind me of home. I can smell my dad (Steven Tyler) from a mile away. I can smell it whenever he's worn my clothes. He has this ambery smell that just melts into him." Liv Tyler

On December 14, 2004 Liv Tyler started her own family after giving birth to Milo (which means merciful) William Langdon. She and her husband, Royston Langdon (British, musician with band Spacehog), started dating in late 1998 and married on March 25, 2003
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Fun Facts About Liv Tyler

She never took an acting class when she first started.

She cut her hair short in 1998 for "Cookie's Fortune," because she said she was tired of having the same hair for 9 movies.

She is a former jeans model.

Her father, Steven Tyler's, real last name is Tallarico, so if ya wanna get technical her name would actually be Liv Tallarico!

Her mom named her Liv after the older actress, Liv Ullman, cause she was on a magazine cover the week Liv was born.

She says she likes the kissing scenes in movies because it gives you an excuse to makeout and is really cool if it is with an actor you like/admire.

She's smoked cigarettes since she was about 15, but she recently quit at age 25.

She hates drugs. She's Italian and possibly Old English, etc.

The locations she liked best of her movies were: "Empire Records," because it was shot in Wilmington, North Carolina, and they got to live on Wilmington Beach and she said that was really fantastic, "Stealing Beauty" because it was shot in Italy and that's her ancestry, and "Lord of the Rings"-which goes without saying, but mostly for New Zealand. 95% of her films are indies. She had a nude scene in her '96 film, "Stealing Beauty."

Dating Brit, Roy Langston of Spacehog.

Engaged on Valentine's Day 2001-married in Spring of 2003 (foggerwash!)

She loves to cook, and loves listening to music, especially Rock.

Her favorite groups were: Heart, AC/DC, Patsy Cline, The Beatles, Edna
James, and Motley Crew etc.

She says she likes tall, skinny guys with messy hair.

Coyote Shivers (Berko from "Empire") was her stepdad from 1991-1998.

She is Godmother to Keith Richards' son's youngest child.

Her favorite movie is "3 Amigos." Says she's still incredibly close with the other 5 actors.

She lived in Virginia for awhile.

Wants a big family, but not now.

Turned down roles in "Pearl Harbor," "Charlie's Angels," "Scream 3," and "Fear" (it was too sexual of a role to portray at only 18 for her.)

Used to adore the "Brady Bunch" show.

She wasn't going to do "Armageddon" despite the guaranteeness, but her father talked her into it.

She loves Italian and Indian food.

She said she used to be a chubby tomboy.

She's very goofy and immature.

She loves her life, but says she gets lonely a lot.

According to an (anonymous) actor friend, Liv and Johnny ARE in fact exes.

She likes to be herself and not let anyone rule her.



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Liv Tyler's Upcoming Projects
  • The Romantics (2010)
  • Super (2010)
  • The Strangers 2 (2010)


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