Amanda Seyfried lists $4.4M LA home as she commits to upstate farm life

Amanda Seyfried bought a Los Angeles home in 2011 for $2.5 million. On the market now, it carries a $4.4 million price tag. The three-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom house, built in 1916 and purchased from her Jennifer's Body co-star Adam Brody, has served as her West Coast base for fifteen years. But Seyfried, now 40, is ready to let it go—a concrete signal that her life has moved elsewhere entirely.

The actress has spent the last thirteen years building a different kind of home. In 2013, she and her husband, actor Thomas Sadoski, moved to a 1930s farmhouse in upstate New York. They renovated it over ten months, preserving its rustic stonework and character while adding a kitchen and expanding the living space. Today, the property houses not just their family—two children, Nina and Thomas, ages 8 and 5—but a sanctuary of rescue animals: horses, ducks, chickens, peacocks, goats, and others. The main barn was converted into a guesthouse. It is, by any measure, a working farm, not a weekend retreat.

In March 2025, Seyfried spoke publicly about why this move mattered so much. She has lived with obsessive-compulsive disorder since childhood, though it wasn't diagnosed until later. The symptoms were severe: if her socks weren't a certain length, she could barely function. She would jump on floor tiles, unable to continue walking until she felt certain it was safe. When she began modeling as a young teenager, new anxieties took root—body insecurity, comparison, the weight of being watched. Performing helped ease the spiral; make-believe allowed her to step outside herself. But as her acting career accelerated, the constant attention and stress made things worse. She found herself comparing herself to others, sinking deeper into anxiety.

The farm changed that. Seyfried told The Wall Street Journal that tending to the animals—particularly her 38-year-old pony, Cliff—keeps her from obsessing over things that don't matter. Every day with the aging horse feels like a gift. It grounds her. She still has anxieties, she said, but the work of caring for living creatures gives her purpose and presence. She has also become particular about her space: a small window-box area off the living room serves as her office and decompression zone. On Saturday mornings, she sits there while her children watch television, crocheting or simply being still. She is meticulous about her kitchen cabinets, unwilling to tolerate scratches or fingerprints. These small rituals, these boundaries, are part of how she maintains equilibrium.

The Los Angeles home, listed with Justin Paul Huchel of Carolwood Estates, reflects a different chapter. It sits steps from Runyon Canyon, offering what the listing describes as peaceful, resort-like living in the heart of the city. The property includes a private swimming pool and spa, a wraparound porch, a converted garage gym, and interior spaces anchored by blue kitchen cabinets and a light-filled sunroom. It is, by conventional measures, enviable. But it is no longer hers in any meaningful sense. She has already sold her Manhattan condo in 2022 for $4.52 million, having bought it a decade earlier for $2.6 million. She and Sadoski still own an apartment on the Upper West Side, purchased the same year they sold the condo. But the Los Angeles property—the one she held for fifteen years—is being released.

The sale is not a financial necessity. Seyfried has had a substantial career: Mean Girls in 2004, where she played Karen Smith after auditioning for the lead; Mamma Mia, which made her a household name; and steady work since. The doubling of her investment over fifteen years is solid, though hardly extraordinary for California real estate. What matters is the direction. She is consolidating her life around the farm, around the animals, around the quiet. The Los Angeles home was a base for a version of herself that required proximity to the industry. That version is no longer who she is.