Liv Tyle was born on July 1, 1977, in Portland, Maine. At fourteen, he moved to New York to start a modeling career and decided after a year to become an actress. Role of Liv's first feature was that the older sister of an autistic boy in Bruce Beresford straight to video drama "silent". Liv was the hit of the Cannes Film Festival 1996, which introduced "Stealing Beauty" in the competition, and French critics ooh-la-laed over the young actress. In 1997, Liv was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. With this extravagant exposure, Liv became an instant sex symbol video vixen.Liv 's next big event took place in Tom Hanks' directorial debut "That Thing You Do", in which she played the girlfriend of a band groupie small town, Circa 1964. His success followed with Pat O'Connor, "Inventing the Abbotts," in which she played another small town girl. Liv then entered the big-budget arena in 1998, co-starring Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck in the Disney movie "Armageddon."