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LIV TYLER BIOGRAPHY |
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Liv was born on July 1, 1977, in Portland, Maine.
She is the daughter of Steven Tyler, the famous front man of the
band Aerosmith. 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 has a unique natural
sultry sophistication about her. Within a few months of the
photos, Liv began decorating such fashion magazines as Seventeen
and Mirabella.
While shooting a commercial on location in the stifling Amazon
the following year, Liv decided she wanted to pursue acting.
Ironically, a cinema agent read about the intriguing Liv in an
article by The New York Times concerning children of the rich
and famous, and officially "discovered" her. Liv's 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 became an instant sex symbol video
vixen.
Liv's next acting triumphs came in Tom Hanks's directorial
debut, That Thing You Do!, in which she played the groupie-girlfriend
of a small-town band circa 1964, and in Pat (Circle of Friends)
O'Connor's Inventing the Abbotts, in which she played another
small-town sweetheart. She gamely entered the big-budget arena
in 1998, co-starring with Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck in
Disney's Armageddon. 1999 brought roles in Robert Altman's
Cookie's Fortune, in which she engaged in small-town slapstick
romance with Chris O'Donnell, and in Plunkett & MaCleane, which
positioned her as the aristocratic inamorata of a highwayman.
She finished out the year on a more serious note, playing
opposite typically and terrifically brooding romantic Ralph
Fiennes in the Alexander Pushkin adaptation Onegin. The year
2000 brought a role in the Robert Altman film Dr. T and the
Women. Also starring as Arwen in the mega-box-office hit "Lord
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