Which Celebrities Live In & Around Hampstead?

While the Cotswolds is currently attracting every celebrity under the sun, from Ellen DeGeneres and Liam Gallagher to Claudia Winkleman and David Beckham, our A-listers still need a London home to call their own. And of all the London spots, Hampstead is one of the most start-studded.

Combining the chocolate box feel and greenery of the countryside with the convenience of the big city (being only a 20-minute private car away), it’s no wonder that local Bishops Avenue has been dubbed Billionaire’s Row. Having attracted everybody from Agatha Christie and Elizabeth Taylor to Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift – who camped out there during the 2010s with her ex ‘London Boy’ Joe Alwyn – NW3 seems to have become the new Beverly Hills. But with celebrities dotted all around the city – and a large chunk of those split between the neighbouring Primrose Hill, Belsize Park and Highgate – it can be hard to keep track of which stars are living by the Heath at any given time. Here’s a roundup of all the celebs who currently call Hampstead home.

Which Celebrities Live In Hampstead?

Hampstead Swimming Ponds

Ryan Gosling

Yummy mummies of Hampstead watch out: Ryan Gosling now lives part-time in the London neighbourhood. Though his main base remains in LA, where his lives with his wife Eva Mendes and their two kids, he has temporarily relocated to film the new Star Wars film Starfighter. This isn’t the first time the La La Land star has lived in the UK, having previously settled down in Notting Hill while filming Project Hail Mary. Though Gosling maintains a pretty private lifestyle, the star and his family surprised diners at West Hampstead eatery Hana Restaurant when they popped in for dinner. 

Harry Styles & Zoë Kravitz

Having lived in Hampstead since 2012, it seems that former One Direction star Harry Styles is now on a mission to colonise the entire suburb for himself. The star has reportedly bought-up a total of four homes on the same private street in a bid to transform them into the ultimate mega-mansion. Expected to be completed in 2027, he is currently merging two luxury homes on a private estate near Hampstead Heath to create one £30m property complete with four bedrooms, a gym, home cinema, art gallery and staff quarters. Despite his bid for privacy, the singer can frequently be spotted Lime biking around, swimming in the ponds, hunting for the city’s best bakery, and holding hands with his fiancée, the actress and singer Zoë Kravitz. 

Dua Lipa & Callum Turner

Though Taylor Swift has since bid ‘so long’ to Hampstead, she and Styles were far from the only pop stars to call the area home. Hampstead local Dua Lipa – who attended the nearby Parliament Hill School for girls – owns a three-bedroom Victorian mansion in West Hampstead. Having purchased the property for around £6.75m at the start of 2020, she has since received planning permission to install a basement swimming pool, steam room, shower, changing room, cinema, and recording studio. The plans also included knocking down an existing rear extension and replacing it with a new family room, as well introducing clay tiles on the outside walls and incorporating a green roof.

Well-known for her book club Service95, Lipa also has a library room and drawing room, alongside her open-plan kitchen, garden and dining area. Having married actor (and rumoured Bond star) Callum Turner earlier this year, the newlyweds are currently living in a nearby rental while they wait for construction work to be completed.

Emilia Clarke

Best-known as Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones, Emilia Clark purchased a £8m property in Hampstead in 2016. At the time, she still owned a property across the pond in LA, splitting her time between there and her Grade II listed Victorian home. She later sold her LA home in 2020 for a reported $4.4million, bidding farewell to its 15-foot ceilings and 30-foot pool.

Jodie Comer

Despite being one of the biggest names small screen, Jodie Comer remained living with her parents in Liverpool until she was 30. Eventually making the move down south in 2023, the Killing Eve star bought-up a home in Hampstead.

Alan Davies

Comedian Alan Davies moved to a Victorian semi-detached house in Hampstead around 2013. Prior to the move, he had had lived in Islington for 17 years, but grew conscious of the terrible pollution. Worried about his then-young daughter, he decided to move to a more leafy corner of the capital. ‘We didn’t want to move out to the countryside,’ he told The Times. ‘Hampstead is expensive so I went on tour for four years to raise the funds. It got me off my lazy bum. We haven’t regretted it.’

Maya Jama

Love Island host Maya Jama first moved into the upmarket borough in 2023. On Instagram she said ‘[I] don’t feel posh enough to live in Hampstead but I get my coffee from Gail’s now so that’s a start.’ The star also owns a home in the Cotswolds, having bought up a £520k cottage near Chipping Norton in 2026 following her split from Manchester City footballer Ruben Dias.

Jonathan Ross

The talk-show host turned expert Traitor, lives in Hampstead with his wife Jane Goldman. While he doesn’t have Traitors turret to call his own when back in London, he does have his very own man cave complete with board game memorabilia, iconic movie characters like Godzilla, a gaming chair, superhero comic posters and limited-edition merchandise from classic sci-fi series. 

Richard Curtis & Emma Freud

In 2023, following four children and a 33-year long relationship, Love Actually writer Richard Curtis and broadcaster Emma Freud finally tied the knot. That same year, the pair moved out of the area made famous by Curtis’s Notting Hill (selling the five-bedroom townhouse for close to £30m) and bought-up a new Grade II listed property in Hampstead for a reported £17.5m. Alongside their luxury London pad, Richard and Emma also own an 18th century home in the Suffolk village of Walberswick.

Ricky Gervais

Comedian Ricky Gervais has been living in and around Hampstead since 2006. Today, he lives in a £14.5m home, boasting nine bedrooms, a spa and its very own gym. Purchasing the mansion in 2024, he revealed that he bought the property for its larger garden so he could build a tennis court. However, he admitted it’s unlikely to be his ‘forever home’, citing that it wouldn’t be suitable for him and his wife in their 80s.

Cat Deeley

TV presenter Cat Deeley moved to Hampstead with her now-estranged husband Patrick Kielty in 2003. Purchasing a 1950s house, the property has since undergone extensive renovations to transform it into a California-inspired home. The renovations are said to include a new entrance hall, an open plan living area, nanny suite guest room, his and her dressing rooms, children’s play area and its very own bar. 

Andrew Garfield

While the Amazing Spiderman actor generally prefers to keep a low profile, he is known to be a Hampstead Heath local. Discussing his favourite spots in the area he said: ‘I love swimming in Hampstead Ponds. You feel close to nature – it’s such a rare, beautiful thing. Also, Barrafina is a favourite restaurant of mine. There’s a dessert that’s like a loaf of brioche bread swimming in cream and milk.’

Lewis Capaldi

The Scottish singer moved to Hampstead in early 2024 when he purchased a £3m five-bedroom home. The new mansion is said to be next door to one of Harry Styles’s many Hampstead homes and nearby to Cat Deeley’s.

Martin Freeman

The Sherlock star lives in a £5m, four-storey home in Hampstead with his partner, French actress Rachel Benaissa. Purchased in 2018 after his split from Amanda Abbington, the home is said to contain a wine cellar, a basement and summe house. In 2025 he submitted a planning application to replace his single-glazed windows with leaded, double-glazed windows, with reports suggesting he was trying to block out the din caused by the nearby primary school.

Emma Thompson & Greg Wise

Living on the same street where she grew up in West Hampstead, Emma Thompson and her actor husband Greg Wise are just across the road from her mother, actress Phyllida Law. Keen to protect the area’s local character, she joined her neighbours in a campaign against plans to build a Malibu style mansion in the conservation area in 2023. 

Jodie Comer and Benedict Cumberbatch in The End We Start From (© Signature Entertainment)

Benedict Cumberbatch

Sitting just outside the Hampstead area in Gospel Oak, the Marvel star lives in a £3.5m redbrick Victorian townhouse. Much like Harry Styles, he has previously owned and combined properties in the area to create one larger home and joined Ed Miliband’s wife in a protest against development plans for a six-storey block of flats which threatened to destroy the local character. 

Michael Palin

Living in Gospel Oak, just next door to Hampstead, the Monty Python actor has also been vocal about threats of over-developing, warning that these new developments could potentially push out local families. ‘Oak Village in itself is a good community,’ he said. ‘I think it’s the relationship the houses have with each other. No one drives. People have to meet and they get on. I’ve always found people terrifically friendly and supportive […] It’s very special and not pretending to be something it’s not.’

Alastair Campbell 

Former journalist and Tony Blair strategist turned ‘The Rest Is Politics’ podcast host has lived in Gospel Oak, near Hampstead, for over 30 years. A regular Parliament Hill Lido swimmer, he can be spotted there even when the pool dips into minus degrees. ‘The idea of moving house fills me with terror,’ he told My London in 2021. ‘We have only lived here and in one other house, in Oak Village […] I’d never live in South but then I’d never live anywhere else in London.’

Thierry Henry

Though born in France, the living Arsenal legend has called Hampstead home since 2021. He submitted plans to demolish his original £10m mansion to build a new 40ft home with a four-storey fish tank at its heart. 

Claudia Schiffer

Much like Henry, while Claudia Schiffer was born and raised in Germany, the supermodel has lived in London since the early 2000s, following her marriage to filmmaker Matthew Vaughn. Originally residing in Notting Hill before they settled in Hampstead, the couple also boast a second home in Sussex. 

Boy George (& Nicole Kidman)

While Boy George technically owns a Hampstead property, after failing to sell it for the £17m asking price he decided to put the Grade-II listed gothic mansion up for rent last year – all for a cool £65,000 a month. Built in 1868, over the decades the house was divided into several different properties, before being reimagined as a singular home by the star. In 2015, singer Sam Smith bought the house next door before selling it to Boy George who undertook a three three renovation project with designer Kelly Hoppen. Though Boy George no longer lives in the London home, it has attracted another famous face in the form of Nicole Kidman. Following her split from country singer star Keith Urban, the star temporarily lived in the London home while filming Practical Magic 2.

Sam Smith

Having sold their home to Boy George, the singer relocated less than a mile down the road to a £12m, five-bedroom Hampstead mansion.