This Palm Springs guesthouse was built for Cary Grant. Photo: David C Potter for Sotheby’s International Realty
As we look forward to the Oscars on Sunday, a fair few of us will be imagining how it would feel to live like a movie star. From city-centre apartments to beachside getaways, buying a home associated with an A-list actor will give you a flying start, so check out these lavish properties for sale.
Tilda Swinton spent 15 years in this mansion flat. Photo: Miguel Souto
Situated on the second floor of a red-brick mansion block on ever-fashionable Kings Road, this two-bedroom flat was home to Tilda Swinton between 1983 and 1998. She went on to win an Oscar in 2008 as best supporting actress for her role in Michael Clayton, starring George Clooney. The light-filled property includes a spacious sitting/dining room, a separate kitchen, high ceilings and sash windows. From Knight Frank.
You won’t find anywhere closer to the water than this. Photo: Yiannis Kelesakos
Celebrated actress Melina Mercouri, who was nominated for the best actress Oscar for her role in the 1960 film Never on Sunday, is one of many well-known names who stayed in this historic house.
Overlooking the island’s Agios Mamas beach, it’s over 200 years old and was once owned by the Leonidas family, heroes of the 1821 Greek War of Independence. A huge first floor apartment with five bedrooms, two verandas and uninterrupted views across the coast towards the Peloponnese is on offer. Contact Greece Sotheby’s International Realty.
The property could easily earn an income. Photo: One Caribbean Estates
Helen Mirren, Cliff Richard and Prince Harry are among the notable guests to have visited Lancaster House, a 350 year-old mansion sitting in a tropical two-acre estate. Includes four generously-sized bedrooms, grand reception rooms, period windows, shutters and doors and a one-bedroom cottage.
Beaches are five minutes away, and there’s potential to generate income through holiday lets or hiring it out for functions. By One Caribbean Estates.
Lord and Lady Olivier loved this house. Photo: tlc London
Originally two cottages, the Malthouse nestles in the Sussex Downs and was bought by Lord Laurence Olivier and Dame Joan Plowright in 1961. They transformed it into a single dwelling and created a delightful country house complete with seven bedrooms, three reception rooms, a swimming pool, tennis court and four and a half acres of land.
An open house event, strictly by appointment only, is taking place from April 23rd-25th. Through tlc Estate Agents
Follow in the footsteps of 007. Photo: Knight Frank
Eaton Square, London’s priciest garden square, was a favourite address with James Bond actors. Both the first 007, Sir Sean Connery, and the longest serving, Sir Roger Moore, owned homes there, and the latter’s former residence is on the market.
The spacious duplex is arranged over the third and fourth floors of a white stucco-fronted building and has three-bedrooms, three bathrooms, a reception room, kitchen/diner and access to the private communal gardens. From Knight Frank.
The epitome of elegance. Photo: Kretz Real Estate/James Edition
This elegant apartment was occupied by Brigitte Bardot and her third husband Gunter Sachs between 1966 and 1969. It’s on the ground floor of an Art Deco building in the 16th arrondissement, close to the Bois de Boulogne and was fully renovated in 2018.
Comprises three bedrooms, lavishly-decorated double-height reception rooms, a mahogany bar, a gym, cinema and wine cellar, and opens out to a beautiful internal garden. Listed by Kretz Real Estate via James Edition.
Who could resist a view like this? Photo: Keller Williams – Downey/James Edition
Wonder Woman Gal Gadot, who last year was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is selling the oceanfront home that she and her husband Jaron Varsano bought in 2020. Meticulously renovated throughout, it boasts three-bedrooms and a floor-to-ceiling glass wall that folds away to reveal a vast, tiled balcony with panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean. By Keller Williams – Downey through James Edition.
Robert de Niro’s building his own home on this idyllic island. Photo: The Beach Club
If you fancy the idea of having Robert de Niro as a neighbour – and have a bottomless bank balance – one of these beachfront villas should fit the bill. The double Academy award winner’s latest development project is a luxurious Caribbean resort, which he and his business partners love so much that all three of them are building their own private homes there.
A hotel with world-class restaurants and sports facilities is already open and 25 villas are available off-plan. Visit The Beach Club.
The estate is among the largest ever to hit the market in Palm Springs. Photo: David C Potter for Sotheby’s International Realty
Despite being one of the leading actors of his generation, Cary Grant never won an Oscar, though he was nominated twice. When he visited Palm Springs, he and his family used to stay in a mid-century guest house built specially for him by Charlie J Rich, a Las Vegas hotelier.
This house is part of Villa Paradiso, a four-acre estate also containing a 7,500 square foot, four-bedroom Spanish Revival-style main house and two further guest houses. From Sotheby’s International Realty – Beverly Hills Brokerage.
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