Nuala Quinn-Barton (born March 1952[1]) is an Irish American independent film producer, artist, talent manager and former fashion model from Newry, Northern Ireland.
She is best known for producing films such as Homecoming (2009),[2] The Third Half (2012), Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017),[3] and for managing the careers of her daughter, actress Mischa Barton, actress Kelly Lynn Reiter, producer Taheim Bryan, and best-selling writer Ted Lazaris.
[4] Nuala Quinn was born in Newry and spent her early years on her mother's family farm in Ballintober, County Roscommon, Republic of Ireland.
[citation needed] She married Paul Marsden Barton, a foreign exchange broker, in June 1975 at St Osmund's Roman Catholic Church in Barnes London.
She has been her mentor and talent manager throughout her early career during her rise to fame, responsible for the casting of her daughter including The O.C.,[9] a popular Television Series on the Fox Network, The Sixth Sense [10] and the Notting Hill Film amongst others.