She began her career as a model before making her film debut in Silent Fall She went on to receive critical recognition and attention after her starring roles in various films including Heavy , Empire Records , Stealing Beauty , That Thing You Do! She is also notable as the daughter of Steven Tyler and Bebe Buell , although she has a very close relationship with her adoptive father Todd Rundgren. From to , Buell lived with rock musician Todd Rundgren.
In , Buell became pregnant from a brief relationship with Steven Tyler. She gave birth on July 1, , naming the daughter Liv Rundgren and claiming that Todd Rundgren was the biological father because Tyler was in the middle of his well-documented drug excesses. Liv told People Magazine in that "Todd's my spiritual father. I love him". Nevertheless, Rundgren signed Liv's birth certificate and acted as a father figure to her, including paying for her education.
At age 10 or 11, Liv met Steven Tyler and suspected he was her father when she observed the resemblance between him and herself. They have worked together professionally, once when Liv appeared in Aerosmith's music video for " Crazy " in , and again when Aerosmith performed songs for the film Armageddon , in which Liv starred.
She also maintains a close relationship with Rundgren. And he's very protective and strong. But that also kept me out of trouble. When everybody was doing acid and partying like crazy, I was at work on a movie in Tuscany I have no regrets. I love the way my life has gone. Tyler received her first modeling job at 14 with the assistance of Paulina Porizkova , who took pictures of her that ended up in Interview magazine.
Tyler made her feature film debut in Silent Fall in , where she played the elder sister of a boy with autism. The film received favorable reviews; [ 26 ] critic Janet Maslin noted: "Ms. Tyler's breakthrough role was in the arthouse film Stealing Beauty , in which she played Lucy Harmon, an innocent, romantic teenager who travels to Tuscany , Italy, intent on losing her virginity.
