Christine Baranski, the acclaimed actress known for her roles in The Good Wife and The Gilded Age, maintains a real estate portfolio that mirrors her bicoastal career. Although her character Agnes van Rhijn lives in a grand Upper East Side brownstone, Baranski's primary residence is in Connecticut, specifically in Litchfield County. Born in Buffalo, New York, the actor has deep ties to the region where her late husband, Matthew Cowles, grew up and where the couple raised their two daughters, Isabel and Lily.
Baranski first visited Litchfield County in 1982 during a motorcycle ride with Cowles, who was driving. She described an immediate sense of destiny upon seeing his childhood home, an 18th-century farmhouse in Bethlehem. The couple married the following year and returned to the area after a brief stay in New York City to raise their children, born in 1984 and 1987. Decades later, Baranski remains deeply rooted in the community, serving as a director for the Housatonic Valley Association, a local environmental nonprofit. She continues to live in Bethlehem and maintains a lake house approximately half an hour away, which she has hosted famous actors at for decades.
In addition to her Connecticut properties, Baranski owns real estate on Manhattan's Upper East Side. In 2004, she purchased a two-bedroom, two-bathroom pied-à-terre in a 1920s building designed by architect Lafayette A. Goldstone, where Jackie Kennedy once lived as a child. The apartment featured hardwood floors, a wood-burning fireplace, and distinct color palettes in the bedrooms. Baranski listed this unit for sale in February 2021 at $1.39 million, and it sold that June.
Rather than leaving the building, Baranski upgraded to a larger duplex unit in the same structure in December 2020. The new residence, purchased for $2.2 million, includes four bedrooms and three bathrooms. The layout features a spacious eat-in kitchen, a formal dining room, and a guest bedroom on the lower level. The upper level contains the remaining bedrooms, one of which shares a Jack-and-Jill bathroom with another room that could serve as a dressing room. Baranski still owns this duplex, which she likely customized after purchasing it with some spaces under construction.
Sources: Architectural Digest.