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Mischa Anne Marsden Barton is a British and American film, television, and stage actress. She began her career on the stage, appearing in Tony Kushner's Slavs! and took the lead in James Lapine's Twelve Dreams at New York City's Lincoln Center. She made her screen debut with a guest appearance on the American soap opera All My Children (1995), and voicing Betty Ann Bongo on the Nickelodeon cartoon…
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Born 24 January 1986 · Q207458
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Barton will star in Sleepwalker, a psychological thriller alongside Hayden Panettiere and Justin Chatwin
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An article from 2005 circulated in which Barton stated a Hollywood publicist told her to sleep with Leonardo DiCaprio when she was just 18 years old in order to benefit her career
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In 2023, an article from 2005 circulated in which Barton stated a Hollywood publicist told her to sleep with Leonardo DiCaprio when she was just 18 years old in order to benefit her career.
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Was cast in an extended guest role for the rebooted Australian soap opera, Neighbours on Amazon Freevee and Network 10
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Barton wrote in Harper's Bazaar in 2021 that she felt that she had been "sexualised" in her earlier film roles, even becoming a "strange sex symbol" at 13 in Asia where her movie Pups garnered significant attention.
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“s Bazaar in 2021 that she felt that she had been”
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That she felt that she had been "sexualised" in her earlier film roles, even becoming a "strange sex symbol" at 13 in Asia where her movie Pups garnered significant attention
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Barton was cast in The Cat and the Moon, the directorial debut of Alex Wolff
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Barton won a revenge porn lawsuit against her former boyfriend, Jon Zacharias, stopping him from selling a sex tape of her
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Barton received praise for her role in the independent drama Starcrossed
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Barton opened a short-lived clothes boutique in Spitalfields, London, later revealing “Retail is not exactly a cakewalk, so just taking care of the store and dealing with production, quality and employees
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Returned to the stage, performing in the Irish production of Steel Magnolias
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Starred as one of the main characters on The Beautiful Life a new series on The CW
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Barton served as the spokesperson for Climate Star, an organization that fights global warming through social and legislative activism
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Having had her ears pierced for her role in The Beautiful Life, she modeled jewelry for the company Inspired Creations, including pierced earrings and their Waxing Poetic range of charms
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Won the InStyle "icon of the year" award from Karl Lagerfeld at the Viper awards in Berlin
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Worked with the home shopping company QVC to raise funds for women's cancer research
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Barton also served as an ambassador for Save the Children and the "One Water" campaign which brings water to remote locations in Africa, and was on the board of the Lupus Research Committee in Los Angeles
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Barton appeared in the films The Oh in Ohio and the comedy film Virgin Territory with Hayden Christensen
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Barton was cast in the international film produced by the Russian band t
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Barton was arrested in Los Angeles for drunk driving, marijuana possession, and driving without a license
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Barton served as a spokesperson for the SAFE (Skin Awareness for Everyone) campaign and also lent her name to the TRAID campaign (Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development) in 2007, in association with Visa
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Became a naturalised citizen of the United States, but retained her British citizenship
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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
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Returned to film and starred in the independent Canadian drama, Lost and Delirious, based on the novel The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan
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Appeared alongside Dianne Wiest at The Public Theater in Naomi Wallace's One Flea Spare
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Returned to the show, replacing Michelle Trachtenberg in the role of Lily Benton Montgomery
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Barton had a supporting role in Catherine Butterfield's Where the Truth Lies which opened at New York's Irish Repertory Theatre
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Playing a young Corvina Lang in flashbacks in the soap opera All My Children
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Born 1986-01-24.
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