Mischa Barton

In a December 2007 interview, she indicated that she would return to television for the right project; "It's not that I dislike doing television at all. It would be interesting having more creative control over where the storylines go or the characters. But for the right thing, of course."In 2009 she starred as one of the main characters on The Beautiful Life a new series on The CW. The series was subsequently cancelled on 25 September 2009 after televising 2 episodes. In December 2009 the technology company HP became the show's sponsor and began airing the show's five episodes on YouTube.
She guest starred on a Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode that aired on 3 March 2010.In July 2010 she was cast in the horror-thriller Into the Darkness. A month later she completed a short shoot on the upcoming independent comedy-drama Ben Banks. In November 2010 she began filming a new reality television show pilot for the Oxygen network. She began filming The Sibling in December 2010, a horror film alongside Michael Clarke Duncan and Devon Sawa. Barton plays a high school guidance counselor
On 15 June 2011 she began filming Offline, a Lifetime television film. Barton stars as the protagonist whose parents were murdered 13 years earlier by a serial killer. Her life in seclusion is interrupted when she is discovered by her parents' killer. The film is expected to air in 2012. She has also been cast alongside Rebecca De Mornay in the English-language remake of the Japanese horror film, Apartment 1303 with production scheduled to begin in September 2011.