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Mischa Anne Marsden Barton (born 24 January 1986) is a film, television and stage actress, and occasional fashion model, with dual British and American citizenship. She began her acting career on the stage, appearing in Tony Kushner's Slavs! and taking the lead in James Lapine's Twelve Dreams at New York's Lincoln Center. Her first major film role was as the protagonist of Lawn Dogs (1997). She 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.
Mischa Anne Marsden Barton (born 24 January 1986) is
a film, television, and stage actress, and occasional fashion model with
a dual British and American citizenship. She 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. She made her screen
debut, making a guest appearance on the American soap opera All My Children
(1996). She then voiced a character on the Nickelodeon cartoon series KaBlam!
(1996–1997). Her first major film role was as the protagonist of Lawn Dogs
(1997), an acclaimed drama co-starring Sam Rockwell. She 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). She also starred in the critically acclaimed indie crime drama Pups
(1999). She later 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). She 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. In 2012, she returned to the stage, performing in the
Irish production of Steel Magnolias.
“It Girl” is a fashion designation before it is an acting one, and this profile shows the machinery: a stage-trained child actress — Lincoln Center leads before her teens, then Notting Hill and The Sixth Sense in a single year, 1999 — cast at seventeen as the style centre of a hit teen drama. Marissa Cooper's wardrobe did the rest, with two Teen Choice Awards measuring the audience response. The biography's description of Barton as an occasional fashion model completes the loop that The O.C. started.
This page gathers Mischa Barton photos, videos, news and blog posts, with search routes to each. The indie work in the record — Pups, Lost and Delirious and the Once and Again guest arc — is worth noting alongside the fame: the mainstream breakthrough interrupted a career that had been running, to critical notice, since Lawn Dogs in 1997.
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 her into mainstream fame.
She began on the stage, appearing in Tony Kushner's Slavs! and taking the lead in James Lapine's Twelve Dreams at Lincoln Center. Her screen debut was a guest appearance on All My Children (1996), and her first major film role was the protagonist of Lawn Dogs (1997).
Entertainment Weekly named Barton the “It Girl” of 2003, the year The O.C. began. She later returned to the stage in 2012, performing in the Irish production of Steel Magnolias.
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