Trivia

Learned swordfighting for her role as Arwen in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). But the script was changed and she never got to use her skills.

She did not meet her father until 1988.

On a TV documentary about the making of the Lord of the Rings movies, she said she really liked delivering her lines when they were in the fictional Elvish language.

The decision to cast her in the music video "Crazy" was based on seeing her Pantene commercial, with absolutely no knowledge her father was in the band.

Her name Liv means "life" in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish.

Recorded a song for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), but because Peter Jackson didn't feel the song was right for the intended scene, he put it into the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). Since then, Liv has stated how much she enjoyed singing and recording and how she has always felt a strong relationship towards music.

David Beckham is godfather of her son Sailor.

Best friends with Kate Hudson.

She has had ADHD since childhood.

She quit smoking after starting at age 14 (2002).

She has never taken acting lessons.

Believed until she was 8 years old that Todd Rundgren was her father. Rundgren and Liv's mother were in a relationship when Liv was born and conceived.

Her two "dads" Steven Tyler and Todd Rundgren met for the first time at her wedding to Royston Langdon.

Aerosmith's music video "Crazy", in which Liv co-starred with Alicia Silverstone, was voted #23 in VH1's top 100 music videos of all time.

Daughter of Bebe Buell and Steven Tyler.

Was nicknamed Liv Taylor by film critics and the media when she first began acting because her dark hair and striking blue eyes reminded them of Elizabeth Taylor.

Considers Todd Rundgren, whom she believed to be her father until she was 8 years old, as her "spiritual dad".

Liv's mother named her after Liv Ullmann because she was on the cover of TV Guide several weeks prior to Liv's birth, on March 5, 1977.

Godmother of Marlon Richards' (Keith Richards' son) children.

Her half-sister, Mia Tyler, is a fashion model for Lane Bryant.

Gave birth to an 8-lb. son named Milo William Langdon on December 14, 2004, in Manhattan.

During filming for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), she left her pair of prosthetic ears on the dashboard of her car. When she returned, they had melted.

Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 37, a son named Sailor Gene Gardner on February 11, 2015 who was six and a half weeks early. Child's father is her fiancé, Dave Gardner .

A cameo role in Everyone Says I Love You (1996), a musical directed by Woody Allen, was cut; Allen was impressed enough by her performance to write a personal letter explaining that her role was cut in editing.

The science fiction epic Armageddon (1998) opened on her 21st birthday.

One of her favorite films is Wild at Heart (1990), and she named two of her children, Sailor and Lula, after its main characters.

Is only eight years younger than Cate Blanchett, but plays her granddaughter in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Gave birth to her 1st child at age 27, a son named Milo William Langdon on December 14, 2004. Child's father is her now ex-husband, Royston Langdon.

Celebrity spokesperson for Givenchy Perfume and Cosmetics.

Ranked #2 in The Age.com's Top 100: Natural Beauties of All Time (Audrey Hepburn took the top spot).

Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 39, a daughter named Lula Rose Gardner on July 8, 2016. Child's father is her fiancé, Dave Gardner.

Is in a relationship with Dave Gardner since the spring 2014 and they became engaged in early 2015. They have two children together and reside in London, England [2020]. .

Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1997).

Liv has one eighth Italian, one eighth Ukrainian, as well as German, English, Welsh, and more distant Scottish and Irish, ancestry; also, on the show Who Do You Think You Are? (2010), Liv discovered that her great-great-great-great-grandfather, Robert J. Elliott, was of half or part African-American ancestry. He was married to her ancestor, English-born Elizabeth "Betsey"/"Betsy" Rollins, in New York.

Has played the daughter character to a bunch of influential actors like Will Patton in Inventing the Abbotts (1997), Bruce Willis in Armageddon (1998), Hugo Weaving in "The Lord of the Rings", William Hurt in The Incredible Hulk (2008) and Frank Langella in Robot & Frank (2012).

She got married in Barbados.

Friends with Orlando Bloom, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Moss, Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Dax Shepard, Elijah Wood, Helena Christensen, Stella McCartney Justin Theroux, and David Beckham.

Has three younger half-siblings: Chelsea Tallarico, Taj Tallarico and Mia Tyler.

Granddaughter of etiquette books author Dorothea Johnson.

Voted the 6th Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine. (September 2002)

Was 9 months pregnant with her daughter Lula when she completed filming the 3rd season of The Leftovers (2014).

She and her Lord of the Rings castmate John Rhys-Davies have both appeared in films about "The Incredible Hulk". Rhys-Davies played Wilson Fisk aka The Kingpin in The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989), while Tyler played Betty Ross in The Incredible Hulk (2008). Daredevil and Kingpin have also been played by her Armageddon (1998) castmates Ben Affleck and Michael Clarke Duncan.

Returned to work 3 months after giving birth to her son Sailor to begin filming the 2nd season of The Leftovers (2014).

Father Steven Tyler is the lead singer of Aerosmith.

(December 14, 2004) 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.

Has appeared in two franchises as the love interest of a main character: Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk (2008) and Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In both series, her on-screen father (Hugo Weaving and William Hurt) disapproved of the relationship. Though Tyler has never played either role since, both of her on-screen fathers did, in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) and Captain America: Civil War (2016). Both of those films also featured Martin Freeman).

She has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant": The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).

Ex-stepdaughter of Cyrinda Foxe and Teresa Barrick.

Ex-sister-in-law of Dave Buckner.

Was born at 6:08 a.m.