She runs the farm with her husband, actor Thomas Sadoski and their kids: daughter Nina, 8, and son Thomas, 5
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Published on January 8, 2026 03:55PM EST
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NEED TO KNOW
- Amanda Seyfried is opening up about her life on her farm
- The actress owns a farm in upstate New York, where she and her family care for horses, chickens, cats, goats, donkeys, ducks and dogs
- She runs the farm with her husband, actor Thomas Sadoski and their kids: daughter Nina, 8, and son Thomas, 5
Amanda Seyfried is opening up about life on her farm.
During an interview with Vogue published on Thursday, Jan. 8, the Testament of Ann Lee star, 40, spoke about her farm in upstate New York, where she and her family care for horses, chickens, cats, goats, donkeys, ducks and dogs.
“When I say it’s a rescue, it’s fully a rescue—it’s my dream,” Seyfried said, opening up about the farm — registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit — she shares with her husband, actor Thomas Sadoski and their kids: daughter Nina, 8, and son Thomas, 5.
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According to Seyfried, their family is assisted by a caretaker who lives nearby, and they care for so many breeds of chickens that “people just give us chickens,” she joked.
The property is also home to several pond ducks and barn ducks, although Seyfried is candid about the grim realities of farm life — “One of them got eaten the other night—it was probably a fox,” she shared.
Seyfried and Sadoski also care for donated goats, cats, including several that were recently saved from the ASPCA.
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“One [cat] is so old and decrepit that he just has diarrhea all the time, but he still purrs when he eats,” she shared.
The families pony, donkey, and six horses “usually come with problems, or they’re really old, or they’re lame, or whatever,” Seyfried explained, adding that she occasionally rides but “never will get comfortable on a horse.”
“I just hug them, on my own feet,” she quipped.
As for their longtime pets, the couple have a beloved 16-year-old Australian shepherd–border collie named Finn, who Seyfried described as “a big guy and brilliant, brilliant, and he still runs like an a——.”
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The Housemaid actress has been open in the past about her decision to leave New York City behind for upstate.
Speaking with Forbes in 2024, she shared that the decision wasn’t informed by having kids, as she moved upstate “long before I had a family.”
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“Staying here was the best decision for privacy, peace and nature,” she added.
Her farmhouse in the Catskills region exudes tranquility and the rural location allows her to tackle “the high-energy of press events and life on-set” when she is working in show business, she told the outlet.
“It offers a more balanced life than the city does,” she continued, adding that the move was “essential for my mental health.”
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Amanda Seyfried Says Husband Thomas Sadoski ‘Sacrifices a Lot’ to Support Her Career
During an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show in 2022, she recounted one harrowing farm-life incident in which she, Sadoski and their kids had to bring her two young kids to sleep in their horse barn when one of their generators during a “huge” ice storm.
“The problem is if there’s wind and ice, everything gets shut down. Nobody gets power. We have two generators, I am a lucky person. And our one generator blew two weeks ago with a huge ice storm, you couldn’t even leave your house,” she explained.
“I have two small kids and in the middle of the night, we had no heat. We ended up having to walk outside in 5-degree weather to the barn and sleep there because the generator runs for that, it runs for the horse barn and the extra guest barn.”
“It was one of those things where it’s like this is what you do,” she explained. “This is what you give up, you sacrifice these things when nature happens.”
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