All the celebrities who have called Australia home

Aussies know how good it is living in the land Down Under, but it feels that much sweeter when the stars agree with us – with many of them choosing to live here permanently!

Continue on to see the celebrities who have called Australia home at some point in their lives.

Hugo Weaving may have been born in Nigeria to British parents, but the family moved around the globe until the finally settled in Sydney.

The actor attended Knox Grammar School in Sydney and graduated from Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1981.

He has resided in Australia for the entirety of his career, with his most famous film being in iconic Aussie film Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

When you hear about celebrities getting into brawls, your mind usually turns one way.

But in 2022, actor Dev Patel was a Hollywood hero in more ways than one, leaping into action to break up a knife fight in Adelaide's CBD.

The actor spoke to police after he and his friends witnessed a man and a woman fighting in the street, before the fight spilled into a convenience store.

A witness intervened, but the man was allegedly stabbed in the chest.

According to his reps, Patel and his friends witnessed the event as it was already in progress.

"Dev acted on his natural instinct to try and de-escalate the situation and break up the fight," the statement provided to CNN said.

Before the incident, it was not well-known that Patel was calling the land Down Under his home.

In fact, Patel has been living in Adelaide since around 2022, living with his partner, Aussie actress Tilda Cobham-Hervey.

They fell in love on the set of their film, Hotel Mumbai, which filmed in the South-Australian city.

Their on-screen romance continued off screen with Cobham-Hervey showing the actor around her home town of Adelaide where the movie was filmed.

It's not the actor's only link to the land Down Under, with Patel earning his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for the 2016 film Lion, starring opposite Nicole Kidman.

Patel took on the story of Saroo Brierly, a lost child in India who was adopted by Australian parents and eventually found his way back home.

David Bowie had such an affinity for Australia, he even bought an Elizabeth Bay apartment back in 1983.

But it remained empty as he spent time exploring the outback and tropical Queensland throughout the decade.

He once told the Sydney Morning Herald, "I would come over for a month or so at a time," he says, "It was really, really fabulous. I loved being there. It was just a great place to be."

He ended up selling the apartment, based in the Kincoppal Building, in 1992, after his marriage to model Iman.

But his love for our country didn't mean he was blind to negative aspects, staking his first political stance through song in the music video for his song Let's Dance, which was filmed in Sydney in rural New South Wales sheep- farming town Carinda.

The song touched on Aboriginal rights, with an Aboriginal cast featured in the video.

In a 1983 interview with Rolling Stone, the star said, "As much as I love this country, it's probably one of the most racially intolerant in the world, well in line with South Africa."

The Beatles member George Harrison was also fond of our country, having built a six-acre bungalow complex in Queensland's Hamilton Island during the 1980s with his wife, Olivia.

They coined the home – which took four years to build – Letsbeavenue, with many of the materials being sourced from the island itself.

They would frequently return to their property before Harrison's passing in 2001.

British actress Miriam Margolyes has spent such long stretches of time living in Australia over the years that she was granted an Australian citizenship in 2013, while still holding on to her British one.

She has made a number of shows about Australia, including the series Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian, Miriam Margolyes Australia Unmasked, Impossibly Australian, and now Miriam Margolyes: A New Australian Adventure.

She has also been in a long-term relationship with Heather Sutherland, an Australian retired professor of Indonesian studies, who she has been with since 1968.

They travel all over the world, but when they would stay in Australia in the past they were believed to stay in their home in Robertson, New South Wales.

Kate Walsh has settled into life in Perth, Western Australia, having recently revealed that she moved to Australia's west coast for love.

The Grey's Anatomy actress met farmer Andrew Nixon before the start of the pandemic in early 2020 on a cruise.

Nixon is from the Nixon Farming family, who own and farm malt barley and canola in the Moora/New Norcia area of Western Australia, a practice they have undergone for almost 100 years, according to their website.

The actress now lives in the beach-side suburb of Cottesloe.

"I got a little place up here in Perth and that's where I am," she told 9Honey Celebrity.

"And I have to say, I love it. I really love Perth. I love the city, I love the people and I feel very, very fortunate, obviously, to have quarantined there and be in WA during this kind of crazy time in the world."