Mischa Barton

Once Mischa Barton became of age and got her role in The O.C, she was all the rage. To us, however, Mischa has been all the rage ever since we saw her first feature film Lawn Dogs, which to this day is also her best role by a large margin. No amount of hype for that movie is enough; there's a reason we scored it at 5 stars. Mischa's next movie, two years later, was the mediocre B-movie Pups.

The same year Mischa had a small part in the widely distributed movie Notting Hill. While under a minute in duration, the little scene is fun and shows Mischa in a manner not quite seen elsewhere. Worth taking a look at. Not a bad romantic comedy overall, either.

Mischa's entire role in Notting Hill

The Sixth Sense is the film Mischa was the best known about until The O.C. Why, I'm not sure. Mischa plays a child ghost who barfs on herself. Some role to have, that one. But Mischa is a good fit for the job: painted pale and ghostly, she's very eerie and otherworldly. The clip below shows her another, slightly longer, and more pleasant scene.

Sixth Sense

Paranoid, where Mischa is 13, is one of those waste-of-time movies in which all actors end up now and then. Even Dakota Fanning had one.

However, the next one, called Skipped Parts and released the same year, is much better. It also features another one of my favorite actresses, Jennifer Jason Leigh, who is perfect in her role as the immature though kind and well-meaning mother.

Frankie & Hazel is a pretty boring movie with a Disney-like glossy feeling. Mischa's character is a meek girl trying to choose between ballet and Baseball.

Frankie & Hazel

By Lost and Delirious, Mischa has grown into a teenager. She's however much more likeable than in the previous movie, or any following ones. We love this movie.

Of Mischa's later movies we have seen Tart, A Ring of Endless Light, Octane and the television series The O.C, but none of those are match to Mischa's earlier movies, and outside of the scope of this site anyway.