Possessing an off-the-wall beauty obvious by dialect mayhap the most distinctive position of lips in the trade (an inheritance from father Steven Tyler), Liv Tyler unsurprisingly made her enthral into acting via the world of modeling. Since her breakthrough task in 1996's Stealing Beauty, she has emerged as a player with bona fide ingenuity, dropping her "model-actress" hyphenate in favor of just "actress." Born in Portland, ME, on July 1, 1977, to and preceding 1970s rock groupie Be... be Buell, Tyler spent most of her youth believing that rocker Todd Rundgren was her father.

, as she grew older, she began to review more than a passing resemblance between herself and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, who was a family cocker, and she fundamentally discovered that he was indeed her biological progenitor. When she was 12, she took Tyler's matrix name as her own. After experiencing obligatory preteen awkwardness -- hers featured braces and a bit of a authority problem -- Tyler had blossomed ample supply by the time she was 14 to estimate modeling. She moved to Imaginative York Burgh in the company of her mother and began to proceed with a trade.

After appearing on the covers of magazines like Seventeen and Mirabella, Tyler got her commencement try of acting while filming a tube commercial. She made her film debut in 1994, as the sister of an autistic boy in Bruce Beresford's Silent Fall, appearing in the mystery alongside Richard Dreyfuss and Linda Hamilton. Following this fairly auspicious debut, Tyler's next reckon, 1995's Empire Records, proved a unfulfilment on both commercial and touch-and-go levels. Tyler kept at it, next starring as the unrequited dearest interest of a reclusive pizza maker (Pruitt Taylor Vince) in James Mangold's Heavy that regardless year.

Her work in the critically hailed film won her as much as possible pay homage to and her career began to take misled. Tyler's breakthrough came the following year in Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Belle. Starring as a 19-year-old who comes to Italy to find her father and be beaten her virginity, she suddenly became Hollywood's immature "It" Freulein, appearing on magazine covers and as a man of People's "50 Most Beautiful" in 1997. After a lead as sole of the theoretical Abbott sisters in Inventing the Abbotts (1997) and a instruct cameo in U-Turn the same year, Tyler stepped into the domain of fully budgets and even more bloated box-office returns with her part as Bruce Willis' daughter and Ben Affleck's girlfriend in Armageddon (1998).

The following year, she returned to the artisticness house circuit with Robert Altman's Cookie's Fortune. The film was widely praised, as was its entirety form, which included Tyler, Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Charles S. Dutton, Chris O'Donnell, and Ned Beatty. The for all that year, Tyler lent her talents to the 18th century method cinema genre, starring opposite Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller in Plunkett and Macleane.

She also had a leading role as the be against of Ralph Fiennes' fed up affections in Martha Fiennes' Onegin, which premiered at the Toronto Film Carnival. After compelling the role of an irresistibly destructive seductress in the 2001 comedy An individual Incessantly at McCool's, Tyler took another topple secretly in period, this for the present putting her pixyish handsomeness to ideal buying as Arwen, an elf faced with the daunting dilemma of choosing between love and immortality in chairman Peter Jackson's grandiose, three-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolken's Lord of the Rings.