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50 things you missed about Mischa Barton!
1. Mischa Anne Barton is an English-Irish film, television, and stage actress, and occasional fashion model with British, Irish, and American citizenship.
2. Mischa Barton began her acting career on the stage, appearing in Tony Kushner's Slavs! and took the lead in James Lapine's Twelve Dreams at New York's Lincoln Center.
3. Mischa Barton made her screen debut, making a guest appearance on the American soap opera All My Children (1996).
4. Mischa Barton voiced a character on the Nickelodeon cartoon series KaBlam! (1996-1997).
5. Her first major film role was as the protagonist of Lawn Dogs (1997), an acclaimed drama co-starring Sam Rockwell.
6. Mischa Barton continued acting, appearing in major box office pictures such as the romantic comedy, Notting Hill (1999) and M. Night Shyamalan's psychological thriller, The Sixth Sense (1999).
7. Mischa Barton also starred in the critically acclaimed indie crime drama Pups (1999).
8. Mischa Barton appeared in the independent drama, Lost and Delirious (2001) and played Evan Rachel Wood's girlfriend during a guest-arc on ABC's Once and Again (2001-2002).
9. Mischa Barton is best known for her role as Marissa Cooper in the Fox television series The O.C. (2003-2006), for which she received two Teen Choice Awards and a Prism Award nomination. The role catapulted Barton into mainstream fame, and Entertainment Weekly named her the "It Girl" of 2003.
10. Mischa Barton has since appeared in the comedy remake St Trinian's (2007), the Richard Attenborough-directed drama Closing the Ring (2007) and Assassination of a High School President (2008).
11. Mischa Barton returned to television, starring in the short-lived Ashton Kutcher-produced CW series, The Beautiful Life: TBL (2009).
12. In 2012, she returned to the stage, performing in the Irish production of Steel Magnolias.
13. Mischa Barton was born in Hammersmith, London, to an Irish mother, Nuala (née Quinn), a photographer, and an English father, Paul Marsden Barton, a foreign exchange broker from Manchester.
14. Barton's grandfather on her mother's side was a Gaelic language professor at the University of Belfast.
15. She has two sisters, younger Hania Barton and elder Zoe, a barrister in London.
16. Barton has stated that she briefly attended St. Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, but her father's work took the family to New York City when Barton was five years old.
17. In 2006, ten days after her twentieth birthday, she became a naturalised citizen of the United States.
18. Mischa Barton has retained her British citizenship and, says in reference to her English roots, "I actually feel more comfortable in England a lot of the time", yet stresses that, "People assume that I'm from Orange County [...] Marissa [Barton's character on The OC] hasn't seen much outside of her bubble, I like people to discern that I'm an English-Irish girl who grew up in New York City and who moved around a lot with her dad's job."
19. Barton graduated from the Professional Children's School in Manhattan in 2004, and took a summer short course called Acting Shakespeare at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, in June and July 2006, at Sir Richard Attenborough's urging, after he directed her in Closing the Ring.
20. Mischa Barton began acting at the age of eight, co-starring in the Off-Broadway premiere of the 1994 play, Slavs!, written by Tony Kushner. Vincent Canby of The New York Times praised Barton's "so fine" and "chillingly authoritative" performance. New York magazine also praised her as "a darling little girl, [that] exhibits consummate charm".
21. Mischa Barton appeared in several other Off-Broadway productions, taking a lead role in James Lapine's Twelve Dreams alongside Marisa Tomei at Lincoln Center.
22. In 1996 Barton had a supporting role in Catherine Butterfield's Where the Truth Lies which opened at New York's Irish Repertory Theatre.
23. In 1997, she appeared alongside Diane Wiest at The Public Theater in Naomi Wallace's One Flea Spare. The New York production went on to win the OBIE Award for Best Play.
24. Mischa Barton made her film debut in Lawn Dogs, which won awards at film festivals around the world.
25. Mischa Barton won critical favour for her role, with Janet Maslin of The New York Times praising her "poised" performance and Empire celebrating her "hypnotic central performance".
26. Mischa Barton appeared in Notting Hill (1999) and The Sixth Sense (1999). Both films were critically and commercially successful, respectively earning $363,889,700 and $672,806,292.
27. Mischa Barton also starred in Pups, a "Bonnie and Clyde for the MTV generation" alongside Burt Reynolds; along with her co-star Cameron Van Hoy, film critic Roger Ebert called their work in the film "two of the most natural and freed performances I have seen by actors of any age."
28. Mischa Barton first appeared on television in 1994, playing a young Corvina Lang in flashbacks in the soap opera All My Children.
29. In 1996, she returned to the show, replacing Michelle Trachtenberg in the role of Lily Benton Montgomery.
30. In 2001, she returned to film and starred in the independent Canadian drama, Lost and Delirious, based on the novel The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan. The film was met with mixed reviews, but the performances of Barton and her co-stars Piper Perabo and Jessica Paré were widely praised.
31. Barton also had a supporting role in the independent teen drama Tart (2001) with Brad Renfro and Dominique Swain.
32. Other television appearances include an episode of the Fox series Fastlane (2003). She also appears as the love interest in James Blunt's music video "Goodbye My Lover" (2005) and in Enrique Iglesias' music video "Addicted" (2003).
33. In August 2003, Fox premiered the television series The O.C., about affluent teenagers with stormy personal lives who reside in scenic Orange County, California. The show became an overnight success due to its large fanbase, and resulted in Barton's fame being increased through her role as Marissa Cooper.
34. Barton departed from the show in the third-season finale in May 2006.
35. During her time on the show, Barton garnered several Teen Choice Awards.
36. Mischa Barton was also celebrated by Glamour as the "Next Big Thing" and as Entertainment Weekly's "It Girl 2003" in the magazine's "It List" for top Creative People in Entertainment.
37. In July 2006, Barton appeared on the British comedy variety show The Friday Night Project as a guest host.
38. Mischa Barton joined Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer in Richard Attenborough's war drama Closing the Ring. Attenborough praised her, saying "her ability to convey pain and sadness, hopefulness and fear, is riveting". The Independent also noted that "she lends her character a beguiling vulnerability."
39. Mischa Barton has been in many television commercials and print advertising campaigns.
40. Mischa Barton has modeled for companies Calvin Klein, bebe stores, Aéropostale, Monsoon Accessorize, Dooney & Bourke, JC (Jeans and Clothes), European clothing line Morgan de Toi, Jaspal, and Neutrogena skincare products.
41. Mischa Barton became the spokesperson for Keds Sneakers, substantially increasing their sales.
42. In Australia, she appears in commercials for teen magazine Famous and was the guest of honour at retail giant David Jones Tahitian Summer Collection launch.
43. Mischa Barton has also endorsed Chanel jewelry, appearing at a number of events for the brand.
44. In a 2005 interview, she stated that she liked the Chanel brand because they produced a large number of clip-on earrings suitable for women who did not have pierced ears, as she did not at the time.
45. In 2009, having had her ears pierced especially for her role in The Beautiful Life, she modelled jewelry for the company Inspired Creations, including pierced earrings and their Waxing Poetic range of charms.
46. In 2008 she won the InStyle "icon of the year" award from Karl Lagerfeld at the Viper awards in Berlin. Lagerfeld spoke about Barton; "So many girls want to look like Mischa Barton. She is a fashion role model for an entire generation. I am so happy to be able to present her with the VIPer Award."
47. Mischa Barton also became a spokesperson for the SAFE (Skin Awareness for Everyone) campaign in 2007.
48. Mischa Barton lent her name to the TRAID campaign (Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development) in association with Visa Swap
49. Barton is currently the spokesperson for Climate Star, an organization that fights global warming through social and legislative activism. Barton has worked with the home shopping company QVC to raise funds for women's cancer research.
50. Barton purchased a house in Los Angeles at age nineteen, which she shares with her parents; she splits her time between there and apartments in London and New York.
Source: Wikipedia.org
