British-born Mischa Barton moved to the US age 5 the place, age 9, she made her display debut on American cleaning soap opera All My Kids, and, age 11, her cinema debut in 1997 fantasy drama Garden Canines reverse Sam Rockwell. You possibly can then play “spot the younger Mischa Barton” in numerous movies. Within the well-known scene in Notting Hill the place Hugh Grant hasn’t seen the movie after which has to interview the solid on the press junket, it’s Barton who performs the younger little one actor who has already appeared in 22 movies, her favorite with Leonardo DiCaprio. (“Is he your favorite Italian director?” asks Hugh.) In The Sixth Sense, she is the younger ghost who has been poisoned by her mom that Bruce Willis sees.
Barton starred in 1999 US indie crime thriller Pups and 2001 Canadian drama Misplaced and Delirious. It was her stint taking part in complicated and in the end self-destructing teenager Marissa Cooper within the first three seasons of The OC that propelled Barton into the stratosphere, though she has since said how a lot she struggled with worldwide fame as a 17-year-old.
Richard Attenborough then solid her in 2007 romantic drama Closing the Ring. She additionally performs an ex-head woman within the 2007 reboot of St Trinian’s with Gemma Arterton, Lily Cole and Juno Temple. Since then, Barton appears to have discovered peace starring in indie movies corresponding to Assassination of a Excessive Faculty President reverse Bruce Willis, and with Martin Sheen in Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain, a drama based mostly on the Bhopal fuel tragedy. She’s additionally discovered a distinct segment in horror movies, with roles in Homecoming, House 1303, Sibling, The Basement, The Toybox, Oujia Home and 2020’s Spree.
In 2012, she was within the video to All people’s on the Run by Noel Gallagher’s Excessive Flying Birds. In 2023, she was launched as a brand new character for the relaunch of Neighbours, the place Ramsay Road couldn’t be extra totally different to Orange County. Now, to rejoice her new homicide thriller Invitation to a Homicide – out on digital on 30 December – Barton is right here to take your questions. Please put up them beneath by 5pm Tuesday 17 December and we’ll print her solutions quickly in Movie&Music.
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