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For The Lord of the Rings, Tyler learned swordfighting but her scenes using those skills were cut from the final script.
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She did not meet her father Steven Tyler until 1988, when she was 11 years old.
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On a Lord of the Rings documentary, she said she really liked delivering her lines in Elvish.
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The decision to cast her in the Aerosmith music video Crazy was based on her Pantene commercial, with no knowledge of her father’s band membership.
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Her name Liv means life in Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish.
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She recorded a song for The Two Towers, but Peter Jackson moved it to the extended edition of The Return of the King.
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David Beckham is godfather to her son Sailor.
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Her closest friends include Kate Hudson and Jennifer Connelly.
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She has had ADHD since childhood.
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She quit smoking in 2002 after starting at age 14.
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She has never taken acting lessons.
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Until age 8, she believed Todd Rundgren was her father; he was in a relationship with her mother when she was conceived.
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Her two fathers, Steven Tyler and Todd Rundgren, met for the first time at her wedding to Royston Langdon.
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She is the daughter of Bebe Buell and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler.
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Aerosmith’s Crazy video, in which Tyler co-starred with Alicia Silverstone, was voted #23 on VH1’s top 100 music videos of all time.
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Critics and media nicknamed her Liv Taylor early in her career because her dark hair and blue eyes resembled Elizabeth Taylor’s.
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She considers Todd Rundgren her spiritual dad.
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Her mother named her after Liv Ullmann, who was on a TV Guide cover weeks before her birth.
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She is godmother to Marlon Richards’ children.
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Her half-sister Mia Tyler is a fashion model for Lane Bryant.
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She gave birth to her first son, Milo William Langdon, on December 14, 2004 in Manhattan.
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During filming for The Fellowship of the Ring, her prosthetic ears melted after she left them on her car dashboard.
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She named her children Sailor and Lula after characters from her favorite film Wild at Heart.
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Woody Allen cut her cameo in Everyone Says I Love You but wrote her a personal letter explaining.
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She gave birth to her second son, Sailor Gene Gardner, on February 11, 2015, six and a half weeks early.
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She is only eight years younger than Cate Blanchett, but plays her granddaughter in Lord of the Rings.
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She gave birth to her first child at 27 and her third at 39.
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She is the celebrity spokesperson for Givenchy Perfume and Cosmetics.
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Armageddon opened on her 21st birthday.
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She gave birth to her daughter Lula Rose Gardner on July 8, 2016.
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The Age.com ranked her #2 in their Top 100 Natural Beauties of All Time.
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People magazine chose her as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1997.
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She has been in a relationship with Dave Gardner since spring 2014, engaged in 2015, and they reside in London.
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Her ancestry includes Italian, Ukrainian, German, English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, and African-American through her great-great-great-great-grandfather.
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She has played daughter characters to actors like Will Patton, Bruce Willis, Hugo Weaving, William Hurt, and Frank Langella.
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She has three younger half-siblings: Chelsea Tallarico, Taj Tallarico, and Mia Tyler.
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She got married in Barbados.
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Her grandmother is etiquette author Dorothea Johnson.
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She was nine months pregnant with her daughter Lula while filming the third season of The Leftovers.
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Empire magazine voted her the 6th Sexiest Female Movie Star.
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She returned to work three months after giving birth to her son Sailor to begin The Leftovers season 2.
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Her father Steven Tyler is the lead singer of Aerosmith.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was selected for the National Film Registry.
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Her son Milo was born on the same day as the release of the Platinum Series Special Extended Edition of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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She has appeared in two franchises as the love interest of a main character: Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk and Aragorn in Lord of the Rings.
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Performed Need You Tonight for Givenchy in 2011, a cover of the INXS song.
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Music journalist Liz Derringer is her godmother.
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She is ex-stepdaughter of Cyrinda Foxe and Teresa Barrick.
