The couple want more space for a growing family, but their agent said they aren’t leaving New York City to get it.
Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy are moving on from their West Village townhouse, asking $9,750,000 for the home they have lived in for more than a decade.
The Hollywood power couple bought the four-bedroom, four-and-half-bathroom house on Downing Street in Manhattan in 2012, when Ms. Danes, a native New Yorker, was pregnant with their first son. In the years since, they have seen their careers and family grow. They welcomed a second son, and then a daughter. Ms. Danes, who spent nine years starring as Carrie Mathison in the popular television drama “Homeland,” moved on to the critically acclaimed role of Rachel Fleishman in the mini-series “Fleishman is in Trouble,” created by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Mr. Dancy, a British actor known for his roles in “Black Hawk Down” and the television adaptation of “David Copperfield,” went on to a much-lauded role in the TV series “Hannibal” and an Off Broadway run, opposite Stockard Channing, in the play “Apologia.”
The couple put significant effort into modernizing the interiors of the 1880s Greek Revival house. In an effort led by Joan Krevlin, a founding partner of BKSK Architects, the space was opened and brightened, particularly on the ground floor. Ms. Krevlin, who has long worked with Ms. Danes, rooted her work in the actress’s childhood memories.
“Claire grew up in lofts, and her heart was in loft living,” Ms. Krevlin said. “The home they were choosing to make was a townhouse, intentionally, but there were characteristics of a loft that were very important to her.”
Those characteristics included a feeling of flow between the living and eating spaces, as well as plenty of natural light, regardless of the time of day.
