Mischa Barton - a British-American Fashion Model

  

                           Mischa Barton 

Born: January 24, 1986    

English    

Actress, Model    

Height: 5ft. 9in. tall    

Measurements: 34 -24 -34    

Website: www.mischabarton.com   

Mischa Anne Marsden Barton is a British-American fashion model, film, television, and stage actress, best known for her role as Marissa Cooper in the American television series The O.C.. 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", yet stresses that, "I like people to discern that I'm an English-Irish girl who grew up in New York."