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.
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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.
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