Liv Tyler Biography: In Her Own Words – Exclusive Video, News, Photos, Age

Liv Tyler is an American actress who began her modeling career at the age of fourteen before transferring her skillset to the world of cinema just three years later. She is best known for her roles of Grace Stamper in Armageddon as well as Arwen in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.

LIV TYLER BIOGRAPHY: AGE, EARLY LIFE, FAMILY, EDUCATION

Liv Tyler was born on July 1, 1977 (Liv Tyler’s age: 45) in New York City to Bebe Buell and Steven Tyler. Her mother was a model and a singer while her father was the lead singer of the rock band Aerosmith. Tyler was named by her mother after Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann. 

Her parents were never married, and her mother kept her father a secret from her early on in her childhood, claiming that Todd Rundgren was her father. Tyler only discovered that Steven was her father when they met when Tyler was ten or eleven and asked her mother if they had been related due to their unique resemblance to one another. The truth was then revealed. However, this information had not become public until she had officially changed her last name from Rundgren to Tyler.

Years after this information had been uncovered, Tyler still called Todd Rundgren her “spiritual father” while expressing her love for him. Buell has since stated that the reason for her keeping her true father’s identity hidden was because Steven Tyler was too heavily addicted to drugs at the time of his daughter’s birth. Since learning the truth, Tyler has gone on to develop a close relationship with her father, and the two have even performed together on stage, once when Tyler appeared in Aerosmith, and once again when Aerosmith had come to perform songs in the hit film Armageddon.

Tyler attended York Preparatory for both middle school and high school alike, a school that her mother felt comfortable sending her to after spending time researching the schools best suited to accommodate Tyler’s ADHD. Tyler also went to the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, California. She graduated from York in 1995 and then went on to continue pursuing her acting career. 

“For me, I didn’t get much of a childhood in my teen years because I’ve been working since I was 14,” Tyler recalled. “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.”

LIV TYLER BIOGRAPHY: CAREER

Tyler was given her first modeling job at the age of fourteen. However, she became bored with her modeling career less than a year after she’d started and decided to go into acting. Tyler first became known to television audiences when she starred alongside Alicia Silverstone in the music video for Aerosmith’s song published in 1993 titled “Crazy.”

In an exclusive interview with uInterview, Tyler spoke about acting on The Ledge (2011).

“I actually met [writer/director] Matthew Chapman for the first time, I think, almost four years ago, and I read the script and had just never read anything quite like it before. It was really, you know obviously it’s a lot of complexities going on in there with all the different characters and beliefs and just the story. The movie didn’t exactly happen then. I always find it so interesting how things come together, and suddenly many years later, my best friend who’s a cinematographer, his name is Bobby Bukowski. Charlie [Hunnam] got attached to do the movie, and Bobby and I are friends with Charlie, they’ve been friends for years. It all sort of came together in this way, and Bobby was going away to make the movie, and literally got there and Matthew wrote me a letter and sort of re-offered it to me. I decided [to do it] and within four days got on a plane to Baton Rouge to make the film. There’s something sort of interesting about just not overthinking it too much and just fully trusting in the material and the talent involved and just kind of going off to make the film. I had never really done that before and it was interesting.”

When asked about which scene was the most challenging to film, Tyler had an intriguing response.

“Honestly, a lot of times the scenes that are the most challenging are my favorite because they are so scary and the lead-up to actually doing them is so hard, and then I find that once I’m actually in them and doing them I really enjoy it,” Tyler commented. “There’s a scene where I’m tied to a chair and I have a gag in my mouth and in some strange way I kind of enjoy those scenes, when there’s crazy things happening, or you’re under rain machines, or there’s crazy effects or action going on, or an intense emotion. That heightened state is quite amazing, the challenge of that, in a way.”

LIV TYLER BIOGRAPHY: PERSONAL LIFE

Liv Tyler currently resides in London, England with her three children: Milo William, Sailor Gene, and Lula Rose. She has dabbled in quite a few romantic relationships, having only been married once to the famed English musician Royston Langdon. They were married for about six years before deciding to call it off in 2008.

Tyler is an active supporter of the charitable United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) and was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United States in 2003. She has also donated to the Women’s Cancer Research Fund in order to support innovative research and cutting-edge technology aimed at the development of more effective approaches to the early onset, treatment, and prevention of all women’s cancers.

Tyler has also learned transcendental meditation in New York City and participated in a charity gala back in December 2012 in order to help provide transcendental meditation to the more disadvantaged sections of society, stating that transcendental meditation “helps me to make better decisions and be a better mother, and just deal with the daily stress of the modern world that we live in. It helps with everything.”