Liv Rundgren Tyler is an American actress and former child model. She is the daughter of Aerosmiths lead singer, Steven Tyler, and model Bebe Buell. Tyler began a career in modeling at the age ofbut, after less than a year, she decided to focus on acting. After her film debut Silent Fall , she appeared in supporting roles in Empire Records , Heavy and That Thing You Do . Tyler later achieved critical recognition in the leading role in Bernardo Bertoluccis Stealing Beauty , playing a teenage girl visiting her deceased mothers artist friends in Italy. She followed this by appearing in supporting roles including Inventing the Abbotts and Robert Altmans black comedy Cookies Fortune .
Tyler was born Liv Rundgren at Mount Sinai Hospital in East Harlem, New York. She is the only daughter of Bebe Buell, a model, singer, and former Playboy Playmate , and Steven Tyler, the lead singer of Aerosmith. Her mother named her after Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann, after seeing Ullmann on the cover of the March 5, 1977 issue of TV Guide. She is of Italian, German, Polish, and English ancestry on her fathers side and German ancestry on her mothers side. Tyler has three halfsiblings Mia Tyler , Chelsea Anna Tallarico , and Taj Monroe Tallarico . Her maternal grandmother, Dorothea Johnson, founded the Protocol School of Washington.
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