Mischa Barton (Mischa Anne Barton) was born on Friday, January 24, 1986 and is a famous actress. Although she was born in London, England, and often identifies herself as British, Mischa Barton, her parents and her two sisters moved to New York City when Mischa was just 5. Unlike her counterparts, Barton didn't come up in the wonderful world of Disney, and instead studied acting at the Professional Children's School in Manhattan from which she graduated in 2004.
Mischa Barton has the kind of career most actors can only dream about. From humble beginnings in New York Theater in 1994 where she trained with such esteemed director/writers as James Lapine ("Twelve Dreams" at Lincoln Center with Donna Murphy), Tony Kushner ("Slavs!" at New York Theater Workshop with Marisa Tomei), and Naomi Wallace ("One Flea Spare" at the Public Theatre with Dianne Wiest), she went on to work side by side with modern-day screen icons including Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant on Notting Hill (1999), Bruce Willis and Toni Collette on The Sixth Sense (1999) and Sam Rockwell in her Sundance critically-lauded feature film debut Lawn Dogs (1997) produced by Duncan Kenworthy in 1998.