Tomorrow the daughter of a rock superstar and the muse of a famous film director celebrates her birthday

The fact that tomorrow the media that remember Liv Tyler's birthday will almost certainly write that "the Lord of the Rings trilogy made her famous" only shows that most journalists who write about culture, to put it mildly, have a poor knowledge of cultural history even over the past decades.

In fact, Liv Tyler became famous twice - and very early, since first she, a beautiful teenager and already a model, was catapulted to the top of fame by the famous video clip filmed for the song Crazy by Aerosmith, where she played two schoolgirls who ran away from school together with Alicia Silverstone.

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By the way, Liv did not know that she was the daughter of Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler until she was nine years old, since she considered another musician to be her father, to whom her mother, model Bebe Buell, was married. And only when young Liv discovered that she looked very much like Mia Tyler, at that time the official daughter" of the Aerosmith frontman, her mother confessed to her that Tyler is her biological father, so Mia is her half-sister.

Perhaps it was in this video that she was noticed by the famous Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, who was looking for a leading actress for his film Stealing Beauty in 1995, which became the second peak of fame for Liv.

As the director, who twenty years earlier had shot the scandalous Last Tango in Paris, which was recognized as a pornographic film in many countries, stated then, he needed not only a peer of the nineteen-year-old heroine, but also, like her, a virgin.

A strange statement, invading the personal life of young Liv, but what happened, happened - and the girl became a muse (in the spiritual sense of the word) for the duration of filming for Bertolucci, who showed the ideal of young and innocent female beauty in the image of her heroine. Beauty that had an even stronger impact on the viewer due to the background - the film takes place in Italy with its centuries-old pictorial traditions of depicting young and innocent beauties, such as Botticelli. Another coincidence with real life - in the film, the heroine Tyler, like Liv in her youth, is looking for her real father, played by Jeremy Irons.

After that, Tyler played "that very role" of an elf in the trilogy "The Lord of the Rings", where her appearance was also exploited, and then her career went into decline. Now she acts and appears in public only occasionally, focusing mainly on family life and raising children.

Photo: Liv Tyler in her youth Pinterest