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Liv Tyler 50 things from her life and career.
1. Liv Rundgren Tyler was born as born Liv Rundgren on July 1, 1977. She is an American actress and former child model.
2. Liv Tyler is the daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer, Steven Tyler, and model Bebe Buell.
3. Liv Tyler began a career in modeling at the age of 14 but, after less than a year, she decided to focus on acting.
4. After her film debut Silent Fall (1994), she appeared in supporting roles in Empire Records (1995), Heavy (1996) and That Thing You Do! (1996).
5. Liv Tyler later achieved critical recognition in the leading role in Stealing Beauty (1996). She followed this by appearing in supporting roles including Inventing the Abbotts (1997) and Cookie's Fortune (1999).
6. Tyler achieved international recognition as a result of her portrayal of Elf maiden Arwen Undómiel in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
7. Currently plays Megan Abbott in the 2014 TV sci-fi series The Leftovers.
8. Liv Tyler has served as a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador for the United States in 2003.
9. Liv Tyler also served as a spokesperson for Givenchy's line of perfume and cosmetics.
10. Liv Tyler was born at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. She is the only daughter of Bebe Buell, a model, singer.
11. Her mother named her after Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann, after seeing Ullmann on the cover of the March 5, 1977 issue of TV Guide.
12. She is of Italian, German, Polish, and English ancestry on her father's side and German ancestry on her mother's side.
13. Liv Tyler has three half-siblings: Mia Tyler, Chelsea Anna Tallarico, and Taj Monroe Tallarico.
14. Her maternal grandmother, Dorothea Johnson, founded the Protocol School of Washington.
15. From 1972 to 1979, Liv's mother Bebe Buell had a longtime relationship with rock musician Todd Rundgren. In 1976, Buell became unexpectedly pregnant from her brief relationship with Steven Tyler.
16. On July 1, 1977, Buell gave birth to Liv. But Buell initially named the daughter Liv Rundgren and claimed that Todd Rundgren was the biological father. Rundgren and Buell ended their romantic relationship shortly after Liv's birth, but Rundgren put his heart and soul into the "white lie".
17. At age eight Liv met Steven Tyler and noticed a resemblance she shared with his other daughter, Mia. When she asked her mother about the similarity, the secret was revealed. Buell's stated reason for the initial decision was that Steven was too heavily addicted to drugs at the time of her birth.
18. The truth about Tyler's paternity did not become public until six years later in 1991, when she changed her name from Rundgren to Tyler, but kept the former as a middle name.
19. Since learning the truth about her paternity, Liv and Steven have developed a close relationship.
20. Liv Tyler and her father Steven also have worked together professionally, once when she appeared in Aerosmith's music video for "Crazy" in 1993, and again when Aerosmith performed many of the songs in the film Armageddon (1998) in which Tyler starred.
21. According to Tyler "... Todd [Rundgren] basically decided when I was born that I needed a father so he signed my birth certificate. He knew that there was a chance that I might not be his but ...." He paid to put her through private school, and she visited him several times a year.
22. Liv Tyler attended the Congressional Schools of Virginia, Breakwater School and Waynflete School in Portland, Maine, before returning to New York City with her mother at age 12. She went to York Preparatory in New York City for junior high and high school after her mother researched the school to accommodate Tyler's ADHD.
23. Liv Tyler graduated in 1995, and left to continue her acting career.
24. When asked about the way she spent her early life, Tyler said: "For me, I didn't get much of a childhood in my teen years because I've been working since I was 14. But that also kept me out of trouble. When everybody was doing acid and partying like crazy, I was at work on a movie in Tuscany ... having my own fun, of course, but it was a different kind of thing. I have no regrets. I love the way my life has gone."
25. Liv Tyler received her first modeling job at age 14 with the assistance of Paulina Porizkova, who took pictures of her that ended up in Interview magazine.
26. She later starred in television commercials.
27. Liv Tyler however, became bored with her modeling career less than a year after it started, and decided to go into acting, although she never took acting lessons.
28. Liv Tyler appeared in That Thing You Do! (1996), a movie about a fictional one-hit wonder rock band called The Oneders, following their whirlwind rise to the top of the pop charts, and just as quickly, their plunge back to obscurity. The film was written and directed by Tom Hanks.
29. She appeared in Inventing the Abbotts in 1997, in which she played the daughter of Will Patton and Barbara Williams' characters. The movie is based on a short story by Sue Miller. Entertainment Weekly declared Tyler's performance as "lovely and pliant". That same year, Tyler was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People.
30. Liv Tyler appeared in Armageddon (1998), where she played the daughter of Bruce Willis' character and love interest of Ben Affleck's character. The film generated mixed reviews, but was a box office success earning $553 million worldwide.
31. In a 2001 interview with The Guardian, she admitted that she turned down the role in Armageddon; "I really didn't want to do it at first and I turned it down a couple of times, but the biggest reason I changed my mind was because I was scared of it. I wanted to try it for that very reason. I mean, I'm not really in this to do amazing things in my career - I just want it to be special when I make a movie."
32. She was then cast in the drama Onegin (1999), a film based on the 19th century Russian novel of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, in which she portrayed Tatyana Larina and co-starred with Ralph Fiennes. For the movie Onegin Tyler was required to master an English accent.
33. In 2001, she starred in the feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, directed by Peter Jackson. She played the Elf maiden Arwen Undómiel. The film is based on the first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
34. The filmmakers approached Tyler after seeing her performance in Plunkett & Macleane.
35. She learned to speak the fictitious Elvish language that was created by Tolkien.
36. A year later, Tyler again starred as Arwen in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the second installment of the series. The film received favorable reviews. Tyler spent months before filming learning sword fighting, to be used during the concluding battle scenes in The Two Towers, though her scenes from the battle were removed after the script was changed.
37. In 2003, Tyler featured in the third and last installment of the series, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
38. She appeared in The Incredible Hulk (2008), in which she played Dr. Betty Ross, the love interest of the title character, played by Edward Norton. Tyler was attracted to the love story in the script, and was a fan of the television show. She said filming the part was "very physical, which was fun", and compared her performance to "a deer caught in the headlights".
39. In 1998, Tyler began dating British musician Royston Langdon of the band Spacehog.
40. Liv Tyler and Langdon became engaged in February 2001.
41. The couple married in Barbados on March 25, 2003.
42. On December 14, 2004, she gave birth to a son, Milo William Langdon.
43. On May 8, 2008, the couple confirmed through representatives that they would be separating but remain friends.
44. In an interview with the Australian Daily Telegraph, Tyler revealed that her separation from Langdon led her to move to Los Angeles, explaining that it was hard to be in the Manhattan home that they had shared.
45. In June 2010, Tyler stated she was "far too sensitive" for casual dates, adding "I fall in love once in a blue moon."
46. In September 2014, Tyler confirmed she was pregnant with her second child; the father is sports and entertainment manager David Gardner.
47. On February 11, 2015 Tyler welcomed her second son, Sailor Gene Gardner, who was born six weeks early.
48. Liv Tyler is an active supporter of the charitable United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). She was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United States in 2003.
49. In November 2004, she hosted the lighting of the UNICEF Snowflake in New York City. Tyler also served as spokesperson for the 2004 Givenchy Mother's Day promotion, in support of UNICEF's Maternal & Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) campaign.
50. Since 2004, she has donated to the Women's Cancer Research Fund to support innovative research, education, and outreach directed at the development of more effective approaches to the early diagnosis, treatment and prevention of all women's cancers.
Source: Wikipedia.org
