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Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence was among the A-listers in Perthshire for this week’s Dior fashion show. Jennifer – who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2012 for her role in Silver Linings Playbook – attended Drummond Castle near Crieff for the Dior Cruise 2025 event. The 33-year-old is the latest Oscar-winning star to grace Tayside and Fife.

Graeme Strachan and Marc Deanie look back at some famous visits, from Tinseltown royalty at the football to the screen legend who held a prestigious role in the City of Discovery. Nicole Kidman filmed scenes with Colin Firth for The Railway Man in 2012 on the platform when part of Perth station was transformed into Edinburgh Waverley. Filming later moved to St Monans for an Auld Kirk wedding scene.



The Moulin Rouge actress had to cancel a table reserved at a fish restaurant in St Andrews because filming in the village ran over time. Dame Elizabeth often came to Rannoch Lodge in Highland Perthshire to get away from the world of Hollywood and would arrive in style by chartered helicopter. Rannoch Lodge was owned by the parents of her friend Liz Smith and she liked going to the local pub for lunch and visiting Fortingall Church.

In September 1979, she brought her then-husband, US Senator John Warner. Sir Ben, famed for his iconic role as Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, paid a visit to Babcock’s dockyard in 2013 and surprised some of the workers building the new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth. He wanted to learn more abo.

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