US actress Julianne Moore reveals plans to permanently move to the UK with husband Bart Freundlich as she joins huge list of stars fleeing America

Daily Mail​

10-06-2025

Julianne Moore has revealed plans to permanently move to the UK with her husband Bart Freundlich.
The actress, 64, was born in North Carolina but gained British citizenship because her late mother, Anne, was Scottish.
And now she could join a huge list of stars fleeing the US with some citing Trump as the reason they want to leave
Appearing on the Capital Breakfast with her Echo Valley co-star Sydney Sweeney on Tuesday, Julianne opened up about her plans to move to the UK.
Host Chris Stark asked: 'Julianne, you're a British citizen, is that right?'
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Julianne replied: 'Yeah, I have a passport,' before a shocked Sydney said: 'No way, I didn't know that!'
'Yeah, my mother was from Scotland, so I have a British passport,' Julianne explained.
Chris said: 'That's so cool.'
'I know it is cool, right?; Julianne added.
'So, what's it like being back? Could you see yourself maybe coming and living here full-time?' Chris asked.
Julianne revealed: 'I can actually, my husband and I have talked about that sometimes. It could be kind of fun.
'I've worked here a lot and I'm really comfortable here. I've been working here, gosh, probably since the nineties.'
Radio co-host Jordan North asked: 'Really?'
Sian Welby added: 'What since Hannibal?'
'Yeah, since before that actually,' Julianne laughed before continuing: 'Once I was coming into the UK and somebody told me I was in the wrong line and I was like 'no I'm not!'
In March, Courtney Love became the latest star to reveal she's becoming a British citizen, because of 'frightening 'Donald Trump's return to the White House.
Courtney, who was married to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain from 1992 until his suicide in 1994, says she's looking to permanently relocate in the UK due to her dissatisfaction with the Trump administration in the US.
Speaking at the Royal Geographical Society in London, she said: 'I'm really glad I'm here.
'It's so great to live here. I'm finally getting my British citizenship in six months. I get to be a citizen - I'm applying, man! Can't get rid of me!'
The remarks drew rapturous applause from the London audience.
Courtney went on to criticize the US President and his inner circle, admitting: 'In terms of Trump, and particularly this group... it's like emperor-core - like, [they're] wearing million-dollar watches.
Celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi, designer Tom Ford, Ryan Gosling and his wife Eva Mendes are among those who have fled America for the UK
'Emperor-core is going on at Mar-a-Lago. It's frightening now. It's like cyanide now.'
Courtney, who has a 32-year-old daughter, Frances Cobain, with Kurt, has been living in London for several years, having moved to the capital from Los Angeles in 2019.
Courtney has been vocal of her love of London for some time, saying in 2017: 'I know I'm going to end up there.
'I know what neighbourhood I'm going to end up in, and I know that I want to be on the Thames. I subscribe to this magazine called Country Life, which is just real-estate porn and fox hunting. It's amazing.'
She is not the first celebrity to move to the UK since the reelection of Trump, with the woke stars being dubbed the 'Donald Dashers'.
The so-called 'Donald Dash' has been backed up by Home Office figures this week which revealed that applications for UK citizenship soared in the last quarter of 2024, rising 40 per cent year on year.
In fact more than 6,100 US citizens applied last year, the most since records began two decades ago and 26 per cent more than in 2023.
Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi put their California mansion up for sale after the election results came in and kickstarted their 'retirement' in the UK, with sources alleging the 'US doesn't like her because of her sexual preferences'.
Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling were already living in the UK and are now planning to stay put, a sentiment echoed by British-American actress Minnie Driver, who returned to London after nearly three decades of living in Los Angeles.
Ugly Betty star America was allegedly spotted checking out schools in west London - after saying she wanted to leave the US when Trump was elected.
One Notting Hill estate agent, who revealed the amount of wealthy American families they are moving in has 'skyrocketed' since Trump, told MailOnline: 'We moved a Marvel actress into a house very near here in the last week.'
Eva Longoria, a Texas native who has been living abroad for work, is taking permanent residency in Mexico and Spain with her husband and son in order to 'escape' her 'dystopian' homeland.