Mischa Barton Biography

Mischa Barton (born on January 24, 1986) is a British/Irish actress and former child fashion model, now a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Biography

Mischa Barton was born in Hammersmith, London, England, to a Manchester-born English father and an Irish mother, but moved to New York City when she was five years old. Mischa has two sisters, Hania and Zoe. Barton graduated from the Professional Children's School in Manhattan in 2004, and attended a summer school in Shakespearean acting at RADA in 2006.

As a child, Mischa Barton was a child fashion model. She was signed with Ford Models. Mischa began her acting career at the age of nine in New York Theatre with a lead role in Slavs!, written by Tony Kushner. Mischa Barton took part in many plays, taking a lead role in James Lapine's Twelve Dreams. Barton made her film debut in Lawn Dogs, which won awards at film festivals around the world. Since then she has appeared in several films, including The Sixth Sense, Notting Hill, and Lost and Delirious, in which she starred.

Barton first appeared on television in 1996, as a younger Lily Montgomery in All My Children. Two years later Mischa starred in the film Pups with Cameron Van Hoy. She also had a one-time appearance in the Fox show Fastlane, and appeared in the video for "Goodbye My Lover" by James Blunt. Mischa Bartonhas also appeared in Enrique Iglesias's video, Addicted. She played in eight episodes on the television show Once and Again as Katie Singer, Jessie Sammler's (Evan Rachel Wood)'s school friend.

Mischa is best known for her role as Marissa Cooper in the TV series The O.C.. That role ended in a fatal car "accident" during the third season's finale, which aired on May 18, 2006. Though rumors had been swirling for weeks about the show's much hyped season finale death, Barton and NBC entertainment news program Access Hollywood infuriated fans of the show in revealing the character's death before the finale even aired.

In August 2006, news emerged that she may replace Teresa Palmer as Millie in Doug Liman's upcoming sci-fi thriller Jumper.

Mischa Barton has modeled for Calvin Klein and FHM. She has appeared in advertisements for Aéropostale, bebe, Accessorize, Dooney and Bourke, JC (Jeans and Clothes), Neutrogena, Jaspal and Keds. The executives at Neutrogena decided to make her the cover girl for their new worldwide ad campaign; in this regard Barton followed in the footsteps of fellow teen stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mandy Moore, and Kristin Kreuk.

Trivia for Mischa Barton

• Mischa Barton's elder sister, Zoe, is a barrister in London.
• Mischa Barton is friends with Nicole Richie and has appeared with her on the cover of the Australian OK magazine.
• Most of Mischa's roles before The OC were R-rated, and usually involved s--, drugs, alcohol, horror, and homos--uality. She admits that she likes the "edgier" roles.
• Mischa dated oil heir Brandon Davis for a year. Their relationship was known in the tabloids as a turbulent one (they were said to get in very public spats), but they were also known for their public displays of affection.
• Barton has been in a relationship with Cisco Adler (since November 2005), son of legendary record producer Lou Adler.
• In season 6 episode 1 of Punk'd, Barton became the fourth of The O.C. Young Guns to get punk'd.
• Mischa Barton became a naturalized citizen of the United States in Los Angeles on 3 February 2006.
• Mischa Barton was ranked at 64 by FHM in the magazine’s U.K. edition 2005 100 S--iest Women in the World list and 21 in 2006. The 2005 U.S. edition ranked her at 52. Maxim magazine named her #21 on their 2006 Hot 100 list.
• The name "Mischa" is a boys' name: in Russian it is a diminuitive of Mikhail, and literally translates as Mike.

TV List for Mischa Barton

• The Friday Night Project (2006) Guest Host, Herself
• Punk'd (2006) Herself
• The O.C. (2003–2006) Marissa Cooper
• Once and Again (2002–2003)
• A Ring of Endless Light (2002)
• Frankie & Hazel (2000)
• KaBlam! (1996–1997) (voice)
• All My Children (1996)
• New York Crossing (1996)

Film List for Mischa Barton

• Closing the Ring (2007) (post-production)
• The OH in Ohio (2006)
• Octane (2003)
• Lost and Delirious (2001)
• Tart (2001)
• Julie Johnson (2001)
• Paranoid (2000)
• Skipped Parts (2000)
• The Sixth Sense (1999)
• Notting Hill (1999)
• Pups (1999)
• Lawn Dogs (1997)
• Polio Water (1995)