Liv Tyler (born July 1, 1977) is an American actress born in New York, USA. She is the daughter of Steven Tyler, the lead singer of Aerosmith, and Bebe Buell, a model. Her most widely seen role to date is that of Arwen in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Liv Tyler is also the half-sister of model Mia Tyler.

Although it was her blockbuster appearance in Armageddon that made her known to a very wide public, she has proven herself in more sophisticated acting challenges such as Onegin (based on the 19th century Russian novel Eugene Onegin by Pushkin), where she convincingly portrayed the character of Tatyana Larina, and two movies directed by Robert Altman: Cookies Fortune and Dr ... (read more )