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BIOGRAPHY

Mischa Barton
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Mischa Anne Barton, born January 24, 1986, is an American actress and former child fashion model.

Barton was born in Hammersmith, London, England, to an English father, Paul Barton, and an Irish mother, Nuala Smith. She moved to New York City when she was five years old and was naturalized as a citizen of the United States in Los Angeles on February 3, 2006. She has an older sister, Zoe, and a younger sister, Hania. Barton graduated from the Professional Children's School in Manhattan in 2004, and attended a summer school in Shakespearean acting at RADA in 2006.

Barton modeled as a child and was signed with Ford Models. She began her acting career at the age of nine in New York Theatre with a lead role in Slavs!, written by Tony Kushner. She took part in many plays, taking a lead role in James Lapine's Twelve Dreams. She 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 she 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. She has 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) girlfriend.

Barton is best known for her role as Marissa Cooper in the TV series The O.C., the beautiful, popular and wealthy "princess" of Newport Beach, California, whose story is mostly about her on-and-off relationship with former delinquent Ryan Atwood and her continuous struggles against her mother, and later alcohol abuse. Barton left the series in 2006.