Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barton is eight years younger than McKenzie and was 17 when she joined the show to play Marissa, a love interest of McKenzie’s ...

On the Call Her Daddy podcast, Mischa Barton said she briefly dated her O.C. co-star Ben McKenzie — when she was 17 and he was 25. “I think that kind of set things off on the wrong foot, too, because ...

“The O.C.” star Mischa Barton says that she and her co-star Ben McKenzie secretly dated during the earlier days of the teen drama. While speaking about being only 17 years old while in an onscreen ...

The 69-year-old actor spoke about Barton, who was his co-star in “The O.C.,” revealing the level of fame she was dealing with at an early age “can kill you.” Barton, now 38, was just 16 when she was ...