Though her acting career spans over three decades, Parker Posey’s houses have never—save for a short stint in the mid-’90s—been located in Tinseltown. Instead, the House of Yes star is a certified New Yorker and maintained property in Manhattan until a couple of years ago, when she decamped for a country house upstate. But, with a career that takes her around the globe, the star of the new season of The White Lotus is never really in one place for long. “I could make home wherever,” the Staircase actor told Vulture in 2023. “It’s something my analyst said, which I love: Every home is a fantasy; it doesn’t really belong to you. You’re getting it ready for the next person. I’m just really transient, as much as I love my cozy comforts. I don’t need a lot, but I do want a vibe and warmth.”
Read on for a dive into Posey’s real estate portfolio.
East Village apartment
Posey was a longtime fixture of the East Village by the time she sold her petite one-bedroom apartment in the downtown Manhattan neighborhood for $1.3 million in 2008. Perched on the top floor of a brownstone that dates to 1845, the sunny dwelling boasted beamed ceilings, a long stretch of skylights, a wood-burning fireplace, and private access to the roof. A spacious living and dining room, lined with exposed brick and original wide-plank flooring, made up the majority of the residence.
Though it’s unclear exactly when the Blade: Trinity star bought her East Village home, a 2008 interview with Out said that Posey had lived there “for many years,” and that she enjoyed cooking for friends in the unit’s kitchen.
Posey’s tenancy wasn’t the building’s only brush with fame. From 2005 until 2013, fellow indie icon Chloe Sevigny lived on the ground floor, and Alexander Skarsgård bought Posey’s former unit in 2017 for $2.3 million. The Big Little Lies actor renovated the dwelling before returning it to the market in 2022 and it sold a few months later for about $2.5 million.
Upstate New York estate
Posey secured herself some solitude from the big city in 2007, when she paid Paper Moon star Tatum O’Neal $650,000 for a 16-acre property in the quaint Hudson Valley town of Ghent, New York. According to public records, O’Neal had owned the bucolic sprawl since 1995.
When Posey bought the 1840s farmhouse, the listing described it as a 2,600-square-foot clapboard-sided home with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a formal dining room, a library, and three fireplaces. The pastoral grounds host a gunite swimming pool, a pond, a gazebo, a stone smokehouse, and—perfect for the fun-loving Party Girl—a “big old square dance barn.” Reportedly, Posey also enjoys tending to a garden at the rural retreat.
In 2015, the Superman Returns actor mused to the New York Times about the idea of turning the countryside property into a wedding venue catered to those with an idiosyncratic sense of humor that matches her own. “You get a photographer to jump out of a plane with the bride and groom and take pictures as they jump,” she explained to the outlet. “You could have, like, paint-gun staging with the father of the bride and the groom. And some kind of pagan ritual with the bride and the mother-in-law that I don’t quite know, but I know it’s going to be witchy.” It doesn’t seem likely that she intended to actually execute the idea, but you never know with Posey. As journalist Michael Schulman put it, “She is overflowing with ideas for projects, though it can be hard to parse whether they are intended as viral videos, movie pitches, art installations or just private amusements.”
