Liv Tyler

Born: 1st July 1977
Where: Maine, USA

Raised by Bebe Buell and rock musician Todd Rundgren, Liv did not learn the true identity of her biological father until she was 11. As she was growing up Steven Tyler, of the band Aerosmith, began dropping by to visit, and Liv noticed that his daughter Mia looked enough like her to be her twin.

She confronted her mother, and was told the truth; by the time she was 12 she had taken her father's name.

A year as a model in New York at the age of fourteen was enough of that particular career, and she decided to become an actress.

It was her appearance as a teen siren, along with actress Alicia Silverstone, in Aerosmith's Crazy video in 1994 that really put her on the map.

That same year, Liv made a strong feature debut as a teenager who kills her abusive father and complicit mother when she discovers him molesting her brother and then comes on to her therapist (Richard Dreyfuss) in Bruce Beresford's thriller Silent Fall.

Bernardo Bertolucci had searched high and low for a girl who could star in Stealing Beauty, someone who could embody innocence and lust, wisdom and youth, a virgin filled with desire.

He had almost given up hope of finding the right actress when he met Tyler.

Paralleling her own mixed-up parentage, the film cast her as a young American girl who arrives in Italy knowing one father and leaves knowing another.

Between 1999-2001 she was in New Zealand to play the Elf Arwen, in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J.R.R.

Slated for successive Christmas releases in 2001, 2002 and 2003, the three movies filmed at one time represented a considerable jump in scale for Liv from her biggest picture, Armageddon.

More recently, Tyler has starred in Kevin Smith's rom-com Jersey Girl and is set to appear in Steve Buscemi's Lonesome Jim, with Casey Affleck.