Mischa Barton American Female Star Profile,Bio & Photos 2012

Friday, 6 April 2012

Mischa Barton American Female Star Profile,Bio & Photos 2012

Posted by Jack at 05:58 Labels: Mischa Barton

Name: Mischa Barton
Famous as: Actress
Birth Name: Mischa Anne Marsden Barton
Birth Date: January 24, 1986
Birth Place: London, England, UK
Claim to fame: As Marissa Cooper in TV series "The O.C." (2003)
Height: 5' 9"
Nationality: American
Hair Color: Blonde
Education: Graduated from the Professional Children's School in Manhattan in 2004

Mischa Barton was born in Hammersmith,West London,to an Irish mother,Nuala (née Quinn),a photographer, and an English father, Paul Marsden Barton,a foreign exchange broker from Manchester. She has two sisters, younger Hania and elder Zoe, a barrister in London.Her father's work took the family to New York City when Barton was six, and in 2006, ten days after her twentieth birthday,she became a naturalised citizen of the United States. She has retained her British citizenship and, in reference to her English roots, states "I actually feel more comfortable in England a lot of the time",[8] yet stresses that, "I like people to discern that I'm an English-Irish girl who grew up in New York."

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.