Misha Barton

Misha Barton is an actress and model with amazing looks and a scandalous reputation. Almost every month the shocking news thunders in the press about Misha’s next failure: she landed in a psychiatric hospital, then crashed somewhere in a car, then the next details of awkward personal life pop up.

For all this husk, it’s easy to forget how, in fact, Misha Barton earned the love of a crowd of thousands of fans. It is about how the actress and model builds her career, how she dresses and cares for herself, and will be described in our article.

Misha Ann Marsden Barton was born on January 24, 1986 in London. The father of the family, Paul Barton, is a native Englishman who worked as a broker. Mom - Nuala Queen - was originally from Ireland, worked as a photographer. In addition to Misha, Paul and Nuala have two more daughters - Zoe and Enya. When Misha was six years old, her father was offered promising work in the States, so the whole Barton family moved to New York.

Having found themselves in a new country, on a different continent, Misha and her sisters plunged into the ordinary life of American children: all year round girls went to school, in their free time, they walked with friends. And in the summer, parents sent their offspring to an entertainment camp.

History is silent about whether Barton received any prize at that contest for his performance.But fate, in a sense, nevertheless rewarded the girl: in the audience was an agent who was looking for young talents. He suggested that the charismatic Misha try herself as an actress.

Many believe that failure, both in the personal and in the professional field, very often persecutes precisely those actors whose debut and success took place in early childhood. Perhaps this is precisely why Misha Barton in recent years in his career and in life has more and more black bars than victories.

A year after the debut, Misha Barton got a place in the Broadway performance. It was in 1995: incredibly passionate about the creative profession, Misha passed a casting in the production of "Slavs!" It was a difficult role, the girl had to play Russian, so it took her to learn to speak with the appropriate accent - Barton did an excellent job. In addition, in this performance, young Misha had the opportunity to play on the same stage with the owner of the Oscar - Marisa Tomei, and she passed this test with honor and dignity.

Later, after this project, Misha also had other important roles in the theater - work in the productions of Twelve Dreams, Where The Truth Lies, One Flea Spare . In a word, Misha Barton turned out to be a very talented girl, and her career quickly went uphill.

Success in the theater quickly led the young talent on television. The actress basically got small roles: in the series Criminal Racing, Law and Order: Special Corps, in the television films Ring of Endless Light and Offline, as well as in the cult American soap opera All My Children.

The real fame came to Barton after she got into the series “Lonely Hearts”, also known in the Russian box office as “Once Upon a Time in California”. The original name of the project is Orange County - Orange County. Many critics noted that the series was shot with a great deal of imitation of one very popular youth soap, namely Beverly Hills 90210. However, this obvious similarity did not prevent "Oh. WITH." find loyal viewers across America and even far beyond.

The series lasted only four seasons, appeared on the screens from 2003 to 2007. This is a teenage drama about a young man from a dysfunctional family who suddenly moves from a poor neighborhood to the prestigious California County Orange. In this series, Misha got the role of the beloved protagonist - the daughter of wealthy parents and the eternal party girl Marissa Cooper. However, the movie couple did not live up to the final happy end: after the third season, Barton left the Lonely Hearts, and her heroine had to be killed.

The reason for this plot twist was the insurmountable disagreement between the actress and the producers of the series. In any case, many fans of "Oh. WITH." believe that this is even better: the plot turned out to be more unpredictable and exciting.

Movie roles at the dawn of such a successful career also got Misha Barton easily and in decent quantities. First, she got into a short film about the polio epidemic. Then there were already shootings in full-length films, for example, in the very good film “Running in New York”.

What followed were roles revealing Barton's teenage sexuality: charming Kira Collins in the mystical film The Sixth Sense, the weird Theresa in the thriller Paranoia, read by Mary Pierce in the comedy drama For Children Under 16, and the decisive Grace Bailey in the melodrama College.

In 2006, the actress received a very adult role in the film "Orgasm in Ohio." Since then, Barton has played more and more older heroines. Although in 2011 she again tried on a schoolgirl costume: in the film “You and Me” (another name is “In Search of t.A.T.u”).

Misha portrayed a 16-year-old Russian girl. The provincial Lana Starkova arrived in Moscow for a concert of her favorite band Tatu, she wanted to get acquainted with idols. Filming of some scenes took place near Yaroslavl. Misha Barton admitted that she really liked Russian nature.

Selected filmography of Misha Barton:

• 1995 "Water with polio virus"
• 1995 "All My Children"
• 1996 "Running around New York" ("New York Station")
• 1997 "Meadow Dogs"
• 1999 Notting Hill
• 1999 The Sixth Sense
• 2000 "Frankie and Hazel"
• 2000 "For children under 16"
• 2000 "Paranoia"
• 2001 "College"
• 2001 "Julie Johnson"
• 2003 "Oktan" (Misha's partner was delightful Jonathan Rhys-Myers)
• 2003-2007 "Lonely Hearts"
• 2006 "Orgasm in Ohio"
• 2007 "Territory of the Virgin"
• 2007 "Classmates"
• 2007 “Closing the Circle”
• 2008 “Walled up in the Wall”
• 2008 “The murder of the school president”
• 2009 "Homecoming"
• 2009 “Loves - Doesn't Love”
• 2009 “Beautiful Life”
• 2010 “Cool science”
• 2010 “Law and Order: Special Corps”
• 2011 "Brother"
• 2011 “You and Me”
• 2012 "Offline"
• 2013 “In the Dark”
• 2014 “Unfortunate”
• 2015 “Loss of hope”

With her appearance on television, Misha Barton attracted the attention of managers of the Ford Models modeling agency. A very young girl received an offer to work as a model, which, of course, did not refuse. This agency opened the doors of the modeling business to many aspiring actresses.

For Misha, this was no less an opportunity than for many others: Barton became the face of the Calvin Klein Jeans children's clothing line. Very quickly, Misha began to appear on the covers of rating glossy magazines. This strengthened her position in the film industry and provided opportunities for a successful modeling career. A few years later, Barton became the face of Neutrogena cosmetics.

Every actress or model in her career has time to play in at least one music video for the song. In the arsenal of Misha Barton, there are three such works:

• 2003 - clip for the song Addicted Enrique Iglesias;
• 2005 - video for the track Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt;
• 2012 - video for the song Everybody’s on the Run by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

Any public person goes through the dripping of the public in her underwear. And if a scandalous episode was noticed at least once in celebrity, then evil tongues can continue to create scandals around the image of a celebrity from scratch.

Misha Barton is one such victim of freedom of speech. In personal happiness and relations with men, Barton, in contrast to his many successful film heroines in this regard, did not succeed. The actress survived a lot of novels and almost as much scandalous news in the press about this.

Once upon a time, Jamie Dornan (star of the movie “Fifty Shades of Gray”), who had long and happily married to another (Amelia Warner), could boast the title of boyfriend of a popular actress. Barton also had a romantic relationship with lesser-known people - Taylor Lock, Brett Simon, Luke Pritchard.

A lot of noise and gossip about Misha Barton brought her relationship with the son of the owner of the 20th Century Fox film company - Brandon Davis. She met with a rock musician from Whitestarr and with British actor Sebastian Knapp, but all these relationships were doomed to failure.

While working on the series “Lonely Hearts”, as it often happens, the heroes of the film, between whom feelings on the screen broke out, decided to try something similar in life. However, as in the movie - it did not work out.For several years, Misha’s lover was her movie boyfriend - Benjamin "Ben" Mackenzie. Their relationship tragically came to an end shortly before the departure of Misha herself from the series.

Constant failures in his personal life - a tragedy for any woman, even for the rich and famous. Depression began, nervous breakdowns, the press boomed about Barton's problems with the law, alcohol, weight ...

In addition to all this, the actress learned that at the peak of her career success, her mother decided not to work, but to gradually pocket significant amounts of her daughter's fees. On this occasion, Barton began litigation with her ancestors, the actress is not going to leave her honestly earned fortune, which has been significantly squandered in recent years.

Today, Misha Barton has a measured life, she has work in small projects - not deafening, but stable. Barton is involved in charity work: supports funds to fight breast cancer in women.

So far, there has not been such an interview in which a Hollywood beauty would tell her secret of making homemade masks or lotions. The star loves good and expensive cosmetics - you can’t forbid to live beautifully! Favorite brands include Crème de la Mer and Clinique. The latter brand, by the way, belongs to the category of affordable face and body skin care products. Before going to bed, Misha also has his weaknesses.

Only the lazy could not notice how Misha Barton is constantly balancing on the brink: either she is exhausted so much that it is life threatening, then she recovers in a very short time so that it’s fit to diagnose “obesity”. The figure of Barton is constantly changing, but at the dawn of her career, her weight barely reached 40 kg with a height of 175 cm!

When the actress in a few months grew 30-40 kg (that is, almost twice), the public was literally shocked. Everyone got hysterical even more when fat Misha did not begin to hide her eaten sides and lyashki, walking along the street in a figure not quite suitable for such a complexion. Why the actress has recovered so much is probably understandable: stresses and constant failures made themselves felt.

One thing is good: now that Misha Barton has again lost weight to pretty forms, the actress looks healthy, harmonious and happy. According to the star herself, she did not torment herself with any specific diets. He says that she simply began to monitor nutrition, adhere to a balanced diet, and in total with merciless workloads, the extra pounds willingly left her.

However, information spread from insider sources, which was not without tricks. So, a lemon diet helped speed up metabolism and start the mechanism of losing weight. This is an option for unloading for 3 days, but some Hollywood stars, not sparing their stomach, keep on a diet for up to 10 days, which causes fast and strong weight loss. We advise you not to risk your health and adhere to the rules.

1. To conduct this three-day diet, you need to prepare lemonade: mix 4 liters of pure water with juice of 6 medium-sized lemons, add 1 teaspoon of cayenne pepper and 28 tablespoons of maple syrup.

2. During the diet, you need to drink 6 glasses (about 200 ml) of this lemonade daily and do not eat anything else.

3. You need to prepare for the diet: three days before its start, switch to liquid food (first soups, then mashed potatoes and smoothies). At the end of the diet, it is also necessary to gradually return to solid food (3-4 days).

In fairness, it is worth noting that in magnificent forms, and being thin, Misha Barton knows how to dress in such a way as to look amazing. Therefore, you can look at demonstrative outfits from this Hollywood beauty endlessly! Here, classic, casual, grunge, and all the splendor of evening dresses.

There was in the life of Misha Barton and the period of passionate love for the hippie style. It manifested itself in all kinds of headbands, massive jewelry, flared skirts and ethnic tops.

If we talk about the mixing of styles, then Misha perfectly managed to combine a rock and roll outfit in the style of 60s hipsters with boho elements that originated in the hippie culture of the 70s.

No fashionista should forget that the perfect figure is not the key to creating a good outfit. If the sense of style and taste disappears somewhere, you can create an absurd bow with a slender body. So, Misha Barton, being, incidentally, not in her worst form, managed to appear in public in a frankly disastrous form. This jumpsuit is clearly not in size, everything is stretchy: the shoulders are out of place, the décolleté does not look as it should, and the “camel's foot” is a shame.

When Misha wore locks repainted in blond, she was often compared to another blonde actress - Evan Rachel Wood. Relating to one type of appearance and having similar complexions, many stars make outfits similar to each other. So many times it happened with this couple. One of the options for their fashionable battle is a different vision of what a black and white pants bow should be like. If the event is with a strict dress code, then Wood certainly wins, but for a more informal meeting, Barton's choice is good.

Misha’s style is constantly changing, as is herself. Therefore, in conclusion, we offer to admire the evolution of fashionable images of the scandalous actress.