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Introducing Liv Tyler - Profile and Photos
Profile: Liv Tyler
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.
Liv's half sister, Mia Tyler, is a fashion model for Lane Bryant. At the age
of fourteen Liv moved to New York to begin a modeling career and decided after
a year to become an actress. Liv's childhood story is of an ugly duckling
who turned into a swan, beginning as a chubby brace-face adolescent by her
own account. After puberty delivered some decided improvements to her physique,
her family friend Paulina Porizkova coaxed her out of her baggy blue jeans
long enough to pose for some portfolio photographs. At just over five-foot-ten,
and endowed with blazing blue eyes, flawless porcelain skin, and coltish limbs,
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. With
this extravagant exposure, Liv became an instant sex symbol, a regular "video
vixen". In 1997, Liv was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most
Beautiful People in the World. Liv's next big acts came in Tom Hanks' directorial
debut "That Thing You Do", in which she played the groupie girlfriend
of a small town band "Circa 1964". Her success followed with Pat
O'Connor's " Inventing the Abbotts", in which she played another
small town sweetheart. Liv then entered the big budget arena in 1998, co-starring
with Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck in Disney's "Armageddon". Liv
is presently starring as Arwen in the mega-box-office hit, "Lord of the
Rings - Trilogy", and the smell of an Academy Award lingers in the air.
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