Tilda Swinton makes rare appearance with lookalike famous daughter

Tilda Swinton was joined by her actress daughter, Honor Swinton Byrne, as she appeared at Chanel's Haute Couture Fashion Week showcase on Tuesday.

The mother-daughter duo, both styled in Chanel, beamed for the cameras as they arrived hand in hand at the Grand Palais in Paris.

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Tilda, 65, looked chic in a red and black sheer A-line dress, with a subtle nude undergarment. Her lookalike daughter, 28, opted for an all-black look, wearing a black bomber jacket and pencil skirt with a zip front. 

The Fall/Winter Haute Couture Week runs from Monday 6 July to Thursday 9 July and will feature shows from 30 fashion houses, including Balenciaga, Fendi, Dior and Jean Paul Gaultier.

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The star-studded event has already welcomed an A-list line-up of celebrities, including Sabrina Carpenter, Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas at the Schiaparelli show and Alexa Demie, Pedro Pascal and Elizabeth Debicki at Chanel. 

Who is Tilda Swinton's daughter? 

Tilda, known for her roles in the Chronicles of Narnia film series and 2011's We Need to Talk About Kevin, shares Honor and her twin brother Xavier with Scottish playwright and artist, John Byrne, who passed away aged 83 in 2023. 

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Tilda and John fell in love in 1989, when she was cast as the lead in his BBC drama, Your Cheatin' Heart. John moved to London from Scotland to be with the actress, and the pair welcomed twins Honor and Zavier in 1997. The family moved back to Scotland, raising their children in Nairn.

Tilda and John split in 2005 but remained friends. 

Both Honor and Xavier have followed in their parents' footsteps.

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Actress Honor made her film debut in the 2009 film, I Am Love, in which she played the younger version of Tilda's character, Emma Recchi. She also starred opposite her mother in  2019's The Souvenir.

Since then, she has appeared in a string of TV shows and films, including the crime thriller Fuze and Netflix's The Crown. In 2023, she played Princess Beatrice in the three-part drama, A Very Royal Scandal, which dramatised journalist Emily Maitlis' television interview with the then Prince Andrew for Newsnight.

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Honor's upcoming projects include the Sky legal drama, War, which also stars Sienna Miller and Dominic West. 

Meanwhile, Xavier works behind the camera as a production assistant. His previous credits include the superhero films Dr Strange, Avengers: Infinity Wars and Star Wars Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker.