Tyler, Liv (1977- )

US actor and model. Known for her unusual dark-haired, pale-skinned beauty, early in her career she was compared to a young Elizabeth Taylor. Her breakthrough role was in Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty (1996). She became internationally recognizable for her role as the elf princess Arwen in The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03).

Other films include Heavy (1995), Empire Records (1995), That Thing You Do! (1996), Armageddon (1998), Cookie's Fortune (1999), Onegin (1999), Dr T and the Women (2000), One Night at McCool's (2001), Jersey Girl (2004), and Lonesome Jim (2004). The Lord of the Rings trilogy includes The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King (2003).

She was born in New York City and spent her childhood in Portland, Maine, the daughter of Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler and model Bebe Buell. It was several years before she discovered that her father was Tyler and not rock star Todd Rundgren, who was living with her mother when she was born. When she was 14 she moved back to New York to pursue a modeling career, and appeared on the covers of magazines such as Seventeen and Mirabella. She appeared in the Aerosmith video ‘Crazy’ (1993) with US actor Alicia Silverstone. Her feature film debut was in Silent Fall (1994). She became the model for the design label Givenchy in 2003.