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A former child model with the Ford Modeling agency, Mischa Barton began taking acting lessons when she was 8 years old. After being discovered by a talent scout, Mischa landed her foremost professional acting jobs in New York plays in 1994. She played the leading character of Vodya Domik in an off-Broadway production of Tony Kushner's Slavs! (with Marisa Tomei and Joseph Wiseman), appeared at the famed Lincoln Center in a production of James Lapine's Twelve Dreams (played Emma Hatrick, a child who predicts her own death through dreams). At the New York Shakespeare Festival's Public Theatre she starred as a street urchin, opposite Dianne Wiest, in Naomi Wallace's One Flea Spare and Where the Truth Lies.
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Mischa Barton was crowned America’s style queen at Life + Style magazine’s second Stylemaker’s Awards in Los Angeles last night (14Sep06). The pretty actress beat out wild-child Lindsay Lohan and Jennifer Lopez to claim the Stylemaker of The Year prize, which was handed to her by magazine editor Debra Birnbaum. Birnbaum admits the choice was an easy one for Life + Style fashion bosses: “Mischa is always stylish and she continues to set trends from head to toe, both on and off the red carpet.”
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Actress Mischa Barton has her hands full with some Sundance freebies including a Nintendo Wii Guitar Hero game and a couple of umbrellas as she makes her way through Los Angeles International Airport. More»
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Actress and model Mischa Barton played poor-little-rich-girl Marissa Cooper in the popular television series The O.C.. Barton was born in the United Kingdom, moved to New York as a child and began acting and modelling before she was in her teens. In the late '90s she began getting TV and movie roles, including a small role (as the poisoned girl) in M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense (1999, starring Bruce Willis). She had the lead role in the adolescent love story Lost and Delirious (2001) and appeared in several episodes of TV's Once and Again, but it was The O.C. that made her a star. Between 2003 and 2006 she worked on the series and as a model for clothing and cosmetics companies.
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Hailed as one of the most talented child actors of the 1990s, Mischa Barton had carved out the beginnings of an enviable career on the screen and stage. Born January 24, 1986, in London, England, Barton was raised in the city until the age of four, when her father took a job on Wall Street that relocated the family to New York. Following the move, she began working as a child model and taking summer camp acting classes; after being spotted by a talent agent, the aspiring actress got her first professional break on the New York stage in 1994. Barton's increasing recognition was subsequently reflected by her involvement in a number of screen projects. Included amongst them was Skipped Parts (2000), a coming-of-age comedy which cast her as a sexually precocious 14-year-old who is in a hurry to lose her virginity. The film ... starred Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brad Renfro, and Drew Barrymore.
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Blonde-haired, blue-eyed Mischa Barton, spokeswoman for Neutrogena products, was named "It Girl 2003" on Entertainment Weekly's "It List" for top Creative People in Entertainment. On a more personal front, the 5' 7 inches tall young actress has been romantically linked to actor Brandon Davis (MTV's Undressed, grandson of billionaire Marvin Davis) since April 2004. Recently rumors spread that the couple has split up because Barton thought that Brandon actually did not have his own money. A source mentioned, "They broke up after things began winding down and they started reevaluating their relationship. But it was Mischa who broke it off, for a few reasons. Brandon doesn't have any real money of his own; it's all his family's.
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