Her Gilded Age character lives in a grand Upper East Side brownstone, but where does Christine Baranski live? The Emmy- and Tony–winning actor was born in Buffalo, New York, and still owns property in her home state in the form of a Manhattan pied-à-terre—and yes, like Agnes van Rhijn’s on screen dwelling, it is on the Upper East Side. However, the Good Wife star primarily lives in Connecticut, where her late husband grew up and where the couple raised their two daughters, Isabel and Lily.

Read on to learn more about Baranski’s property portfolio.

Connecticut homes

For decades, Baranski has lived in Connecticut’s Litchfield County. Her first visit to the region was on a 1982 motorcycle ride; her future husband, fellow actor Matthew Cowles, was the driver. Cowles grew up in an 18th-century farmhouse in the small town of Bethlehem. “I had such a feeling of destiny about it,” Baranski recalled in a 2008 interview , “I loved it. I loved the smells in the air, the farms, the field. It was a dream.…