Where does Amanda Seyfried live? She may be an Academy Award-nominated actor with two films hitting theaters this month—The Testament of Ann Lee and The Housemaid—but that doesn’t mean she lives in Hollywood. Okay, she has a house there, but it’s not her main home. That would be a farm in the Catskills in upstate New York, where she cares for a brood of animals and her two children, ages eight and five, with her husband, fellow actor Thomas Sadoski. “Hollywood is really … it's tricky, and it's got a lot of personalities,” Seyfried explained on CBS in November. “There are a lot of people that are working in a way that doesn't necessarily make it feel like a safe place. This [farm] is exactly what I have always wanted.” Having this “peaceful place to call home,” she told Forbes last year, helps her better acclimate to “the faster lifestyle of the city, the high-energy of press events and life on-set.”
In addition to her Los Angeles and upstate New York properties, the Mean Girls star owns an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, which AD toured in 2023. Read on to learn more about Seyfried’s real estate portfolio.
Greenwich Village condo
Seyfried paid $1.9 million for a two-bedroom, two-bathroom dwelling in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in 2010. The 1,585-square-foot condo was located on the fourth floor of Devonshire House, a 1928-built Emery Roth structure that was converted into condos in 2009; fellow actors Alec Baldwin and Josh Charles have also owned units there. Reportedly, in an interview conducted three months before her purchase, Seyfried had named financing a Manhattan apartment as one reason to take romantic comedy roles—and apparently, that Dear John money came through. The dwelling featured an all-white kitchen connected to a windowed dining room and a spacious living room with a fireplace flanked by built-in bookshelves, which were fronted by pointed arches cut out of white lattice borders.
Seyfried listed the unit for $3.25 million in April 2022, and it quickly sold for slightly above its asking price at $3.4 million.
Hollywood home
In 2011, Seyfried bought a Los Angeles home that came with a celebrity pedigree. She paid her Jennifer’s Body co-star Adam Brody $1.85 million for his traditional-style Hollywood pad, which he had purchased from Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst in 2006 for $2.2 million. According to listing details, the three-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom home was built in the 1910s and still has its original floors, windows, and moldings intact. Interior highlights of the roughly 2,500-square-foot house include two primary suites, a sunroom, a breakfast room, and balconies overlooking the backyard, which features a pool, a spa, and a dog run.
Seyfried still maintains this dwelling as her West Coast base.
Catskills farm
The Pennsylvania native went rural with her next real estate purchase. In 2013, she bought a 1930s farm in New York’s Catskills region. The actor had been looking for a place to retreat to away from Hollywood, and “fell in love with the main house’s rustic stonework and the trellis between the house and stand-alone garage,” she explained to the Wall Street Journal. Seyfried married Sadoski in 2017, and he joined her at the upstate escape; they also share two children, born in 2017 and in 2020. Living on her farm has “solidified my need to be out of the game when I’m not working, to be in nature and to refresh,” she told the outlet. “Everybody needs a center of gravity. Somewhere to feel safe.”
To decorate her sanctuary, Seyfried tapped Sarah Zames of General Assembly. Per a 2024 interview, the Mank actor’s favorite place in the farmhouse is a cozy window box nook in the first-floor living room. “I’ll crochet there or just sit there—that’s me decompressing,” she told House Beautiful. “It's everything. It's my happy place.” In addition to the main house, Zames converted a barn on the property into a two-bedroom guesthouse, complete with a kitchenette, a lounge space, and a gym. The back part of the structure still functions as a space to store hay; Seyfried’s horses reside in another barn nearby.
“The house was small, so we built onto it to add a kitchen. We use the barns as a sanctuary for rescued horses, ducks, chickens, peacocks, goats, and other animals," Seyfried told the Wall Street Journal. "I still have anxieties, but tending to the aging animals keeps me from obsessing over things that don’t matter. My pony, Cliff, is 38. Every day I have with him is a gift. It’s grounding.” The work for caring for all of those animals is also a reward in itself, the actor told the New York Times in 2020. “It’s insane how much I can feel so accomplished and successful here without having to be in a successful movie.”
This is Seyfried’s primary residence.
Upper West Side apartment
Seyfried next invested in a new Manhattan pied-à-terre, for which she reportedly paid $2.52 million in 2019. When she toured the apartment, located on the top floor of an early 20th-century building on the Upper West Side, “all that was there were windows,” she told AD during our 2023 Open Door tour of the space. There were no walls, finished floors, or much of anything else. But the tall, arched windows provided the bright, open atmosphere that Seyfried was looking for. Once again, Seyfried hired General Assembly to transform the abode into a beautiful and functional space. “We wanted to bring in some of the feeling of what we’d done at her place upstate, because she goes back and forth between the two. We don’t want it to feel like a dramatic change,” Zames told AD. “Amanda is not really a formal person, and keeping a relaxed vibe was really important.” And so, plenty of wood details, including wide-plank flooring and custom window shutters, imbue farmhouse flair to the airy space. “I just love history, and I love the smell of old wood,” Seyfried explained of her tastes. “History has a smell to it. You know what I mean?”
Seyfried still maintains her pad in the historic building, which Nora Ephron, Cyndi Lauper, Al Pacino, Lena Horne, and Conan O’Brien have also called home.
