Mischa Barton

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Mischa Barton (2017)

Mischa Anne Marsden Barton (born January 24, 1986 in Hammersmith , London ) is a British - Irish actress and model . Besides British citizenship, she also has US citizenship .

Life

Mischa Anne Marsden Barton was born in Hammersmith , London . Her mother Nuala (nee Quinn) is a photographer with Irish roots, her father Paul Marsden Barton is from Manchester; they have three daughters together. Mischa Barton's older sister works as a lawyer in London. In Hammersmith, she attended St. Paul's Girls' School before Mischa Barton's family moved to New York City . Barton graduated from the Professional Children's School in Manhattan in 2004. She then attended a summer course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Barton became a US citizen in 2006.

On the night of December 27, 2007, Barton was arrested in West Hollywood for driving without a valid driver's license, drinking and driving, and drug possession. She had the night at the police station and came to spend the next day on bail of around 10,000 US dollars free. As a result, she received a three-year suspended sentence in mid-April 2008. In addition, she was fined $ 2,000 and attended a course on the dangers of drinking alcohol.

Career

At the age of nine, Mischa Barton began her acting career at various theaters in New York, where she played the leading role in Tony Kushner's Slavs! received. Other tracks like Where the Truth Lies , Twelve Dreams and One Flea Spare followed . She also took part in the Shakespeare Festival in New York City.

Barton made her television debut in 1996 in the series All my Children . She became known worldwide in 2003 with the role of Marissa Cooper in the US television series OC, California . For this role she won the Teen Choice Award in 2004 and was nominated for the same award in another category. A year later she was also nominated for the Teen Choice Award, which she won again in 2006 . Her exit followed in 2006 and the series ended shortly thereafter. Besides acting, Barton works as a mannequin for cosmetics and clothing manufacturers.

Barton was presented with the Viper Award from Karl Lagerfeld on February 8, 2008 in Berlin . After the low ratings start of The CW series The Beautiful Life and its cancellation after only two episodes, Barton said that she wanted to get out of the television business and concentrate on her film career.

Back in 1999, Barton received supporting roles in the Hollywood productions The Sixth Sense and Notting Hill . She played her first leading role in 2000 in Mittendrin and fully involved , followed by Lost and Delirious the following year and 2007 in Closing the Ring . In these productions, Mischa Barton's acting was judged very positively. Further film and occasional television appearances followed. Barton mainly starred in B-films , including many thrillers and horror film productions, only a few of which received a theatrical release. Her work includes more than 70 productions.

Filmography (selection)

Barton also starred in the music videos for Enrique Iglesias ' Addicted , James Blunts Goodbye My Lover , Noel Gallagher's Everybody’s on the Run, Apparats You Don't Know Me, Deap Vallys Turn It Off and Incubus Warning .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Mischa Barton  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography of Mischa Barton . promi-magazin.de. Retrieved August 31, 2014.
  2. ^ Pro Sieben database: Biography Mischa Barton . Per seven . Retrieved August 31, 2014.
  3. ↑ Focus Online: Actress Mischa Barton convicted of drug driving
  4. ↑ Blokster.de: "Mischa Barton:“ OC California ”star gets out of TV business" ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from October 24, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / unterhaltung.blokster.de
  5. ↑ Mischa Barton in Incubus' Warning from Celebrity Music Videos Cameos . In: E! Online . ( eonline.com [accessed May 6, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Barton, Misha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marsden Barton, Mischa Anne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Irish actress and model
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Hammersmith , London