Hania Claire Barton the younger sister of actress Mischa Barton

Mischa Barton

Mischa Anne Marsden Barton is a British-American fashion model, film, television, and stage actress, best known for her role as Marissa Cooper in the American television series The O.C..-Early life:...

, is an English

England

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-American

United States

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 actress.

Early life

Barton was born in Hammersmith

Hammersmith

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, London

London

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, to an Irish

Ireland

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 mother, Nuala (née

Married and maiden names

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 Quinn), a photographer, and English

England

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 father, Paul Marsden Barton, a stockbroker. She has two older sisters, Mischa and Zoe Barton.
She attended Bronx High School of Science for one year and graduated from Pacific Hills School in West Hollywood. She attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Ca for one year from 2007-2008.

Personal life

On 21 February 2007, Hania checked into a rehabilitation facility to treat her addiction to prescription pain killers. On March 7, 2007 it was reported on Mischa's website that
she had left rehab.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1998	The American Experience (Tv Series)	Sam Hardin
2000	Paranoid (Film)	Kirstie

External links

• Hania enters Rehab hollywoodgrind.com
• Hania's profile at Starletsdatabase.com