Inside Actress Andie MacDowell’s Sprawling South Carolina Home

The actress Andie MacDowell stands on the porch of a stately wooden house.

In 2023 the actress Andie MacDowell turned 65 and took due note of another milestone: She had been living in Los Angeles for 10 years.

The actress Andie MacDowell stands on the porch of a stately wooden house.

“I moved there because my daughter Sarah Margaret who was going into the 12th grade at the Professional Children’s School in New York, wanted to be in the same place where her sister Rainey was, and Rainey was in L.A.,” Ms. MacDowell, 68, said, referring to the actress Margaret Qualley and the actress and singer Rainey Qualley. (She also has a son, Justin, who lives in Montana.)

The actress Andie MacDowell stands on the porch of a stately wooden house.

Over that decade in Los Angeles, Ms. MacDowell had made a few friends, but “I’m a pretty quiet person. It was hard for me to find my place there 100 percent. I felt I had to do more in my life besides wait for my children to need me,” said Ms. MacDowell, whose credits include the movies “Sex, Lies, and Videotape,” “Groundhog Day,” and “Four Weddings and a Funeral.” She is a star of the Hallmark Channel’s time-travel drama “The Way Home,” now in its fourth and final season.