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There is something captivating and other-worldly about Tilda Swinton; her powder-white skin, as luminescent as a teenager's, her heavily lidded deep green eyes and that shock of incredible red hair.

Even if she were not dressed in an avant-garde gold Dior gown and carrying a Bafta statuette, as she was on Sunday night, there would be a reason to stare.

Indeed, she is so extraordinary that at first you barely register whether there is a man on her arm, and if so who it is.

This week, a handsome German-born artist named Sandro Kopp - 29 to her 47 - was playing the role of consort.

Kopp met her while playing a Centaur on the Chronicles Of Narnia film three years ago. She was the star of the film, the White Witch.

There seems to have been a coup de foudre,and the pair were spotted together outside a gym in Los Angeles last year.

His status as her new man was cemented, then, by his first official red-carpet appearance at her side this week.

Handsome and softly spoken, he trailed behind her discreetly at the official after-party at the Grosvenor House Hotel, and the pair disappeared into the night in the early hours.

Friends say that they plan to attend the Oscars together next month, too.

But the question of who is playing a supporting role to Ms Swinton is not exactly clear cut.

For at home - a spectacular pile on the banks of the Moray Firth - is Swinton's long-term love John Byrne.

And yesterday he revealed that he is very much a part of Swinton's life still.