Starting a career as a model at the age of fifteen, Liv Tyler appeared on the covers of magazines and starred in commercials. However, she became bored with her modeling career less than a year after it started, and moved into acting. She never took acting lessons. Tyler first became known to television audiences when she starred alongside Alicia Silverstone in the musicvideo for Aerosmith's song "Crazy" in 1993. Between the period of 1993 and 1996, she starred in seven films.
Liv Tylermade her film debut in Silent Fall in 1994. Following the release of the film, she starred in Heavy in 1995; the filming of which was delayed until She became available. By the age of nineteen, she had already starred in several successful films, including her breakthrough role in 1996's Stealing Beauty directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, the cult classic EmpireRecords, That Thing You Do! which was written and directed by Tom Hanks, and Inventing the Abbotts in 1997.
In 1998, Liv Tyler co-starred with Ben Affleck in Michael Bay's Armageddon, which raised her profile amongst cinemagoers and was coincidentally released on her twenty first birthday. The movie included the songs "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" and "What Kind of Love Are You On" by her father's band, Aerosmith. Tyler has also starred in Onegin in 1999, a film based on the 19th century Russian novel by Alexander Pushkin, in which she portrayed Tatyana Larina and co-starred with Ralph Fiennes. She later appeared in two films by legendary director Robert Altman, Cookie'sFortune (1999) and Dr. T & the Women (2000).
Liv Tyler's most notable role was in PeterJackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003), in which she played the immortal half elf princessArwen Und�miel, She recorded a song entitled "Arwen's Song", which was used in the extended DVD cut of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Along with learning to speak the fictitious Elvish language created by Tolkien, Tyler spent months before the shoot learning swordfighting, to be used during the concluding battle scenes in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, though her scenes from the battle were cut after the script was changed. The trilogy was nominated for 30 Academy Awards and won the coveted Best Picture Award for its final installment.
In 2003, Liv Tyler became the spokesperson for Givenchy Perfume and Cosmetics, in 2005 Givenchy named a rose after her, which was used in one of its fragrances.
At 14, Liv Tyler and her mother left Portland, Maine, for New York, where she got her start as a model. A year was enough of the modeling grind, and She decided to become an actress. Liv Tyler was offered the part of Callie in Heavy after a single reading, and only three weeks later was cast in Silent Fall. James Mangold, director of Heavy, decided to delay shooting until Liv was available. With seven films in the 1993-96 period, Liv Tyler's career took off.
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