Liv
Tyler
Liv
Tyler was born on July 1, 1977, in Portland, Maine. She is the
daughter of Steven Liv 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 Tyler
has a unique natural sultry sophistication about her. Liv
Tyler 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 Tyler
began decorating such fashion magazines as Seventeen and Mirabella.
While shooting a commercial on location in
the stifling Amazon the following year, Liv Tyler
decided she wanted to pursue acting. Ironically, a cinema agent
read about the intriguing Liv Tyler in an article
by The New York Times concerning children of the rich and famous,
and officially "discovered" her. Liv Tyler
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 Tyler became an instant sex symbol
video vixen.
Liv Tyler 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".
