American actress, producer, singer, and former model Liv Rundgren Tyler was born on July 1, 1977. Tyler started her modeling career at the age of 14 and even obtained her first modeling job thanks to Paulina Porizkova, whose photographs of Tyler were featured in Interview magazine.
However, she quickly outgrew modeling and decided to pursue acting instead. She never attended acting school, yet in 1994, she was able to land her first film part in Silent Fall. She received plaudits for her roles in Heavy and Empire Records that same year.
Tyler’s big break came in 1996 when she starred as Lucy Harmon in Bernardo Bertolucci’s movie Stealing Beauty, a young woman who travels to Tuscany in order to lose her virginity. Critics appreciated Tyler’s performance despite the film’s unpopularity.
She also appeared in the biography of the rock group That Thing You Do! that year. As her career progressed, People magazine named Tyler one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in 1997.
How old was Liv Tyler when she found out who her dad was?
When Liv first saw Steven Tyler when she was 10 or 11, she immediately noticed a likeness between her and Tyler’s daughter Mia and began to wonder if he was her father. The secret was made known when she questioned her mother.
Who did Liv Tyler think was her father?
Liv Tyler learned that Aerosmith star Steven Tyler was her father in a peculiar way. Liv Tyler thought Todd Rundgren was her father for the first ten years of her life. In the 1970s, the musician and producer dated Tyler’s mother, Bebe Buell, a singer, and former Playboy playmate.