Liv Rundgren Tyler (born
Liv Rundgren; July 1, 1977) is an American actress and former child model. She is the daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer, Steven Tyler, and model Bebe Buell. Tyler began a career in modeling at the age of 14 but, after less than a year, she decided to focus on acting. After her film debut
Silent Fall (1994), she appeared in supporting roles in
Empire Records (1995),
Heavy (1996) and
That Thing You Do! (1996). Tyler later achieved critical recognition in the leading role in Bernardo Bertolucci's
Stealing Beauty (1996), playing a teenage girl visiting her deceased mother's artist friends in Italy. She followed this by appearing in supporting roles including
Inventing the Abbotts (1997) and Robert Altman's black comedy
Cookie's Fortune (1999).
Tyler achieved international recognition as a result of her portrayal of Elf maiden Arwen Undómiel in the
Lord of the Rings film trilogy. She has appeared in an eclectic range of films, including the 2004 comedy
Jersey Girl, the indie film
Lonesome Jim (2005), the drama
Reign Over Me (2007) and big-budget studio films such as
Armageddon (1998), the home invasion horror film
The Strangers (2008) and
The Incredible Hulk (2008).
In 2014, Tyler made her television debut on the HBO series
The Leftovers in a recurring role.
She has served as a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador for the United States in 2003, and as a spokesperson for Givenchy's line of perfume and cosmetics.
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