‘The Pitt’ Star Katherine LaNasa Snaps Up $2M LA Mansion

“The Pitt” star Katherine LaNasa has quickly become one of Hollywood’s brightest stars since the premiere of the hit HBO medical drama — and it appears she celebrated the debut of her new role in true A-list fashion: by buying a new Los Angeles mansion.

According to property records, LaNasa, 59, and her husband, former “Melrose Place” star Grant Show, 63, splashed out $2.13 million on a sprawling midcentury modern “masterpiece” located just “moments away from the Hollywood sign” in March 2025, around two months after “The Pitt” premiered on HBO.

The purchase of their new home, which is located in Beachwood Canyon, came around one year after they offloaded a charming beachfront abode in Marina del Rey, CA, for $1.88 million, a property that they had owned for more than a decade.

While their new dwelling does not boast the same proximity to the ocean, it does have an array of impressive features befitting such a starry couple — including a very impressive architectural pedigree, having originally been designed by renowned architect Lorenzo Tedesco in the 1960s.

According to the original description, the home had been in the hands of the same owners for more than five decades when LaNasa and Show purchased the dwelling, which was hailed as “a true piece of Los Angeles history.”

Designed to “blend seamlessly into its natural surroundings,” the home features a stone-and-wood exterior, as well as enormous windows that maximize the beautiful vistas in every room.

Those views can also be enjoyed from the home’s many balconies, which also provide perfect spots to sit and soak up the scenery.

Though the home itself was described as a one-of-a-kind gem, the listing also noted that the expansive lot — which spans just under half an acre — also offered plenty of opportunity for expansion, should LaNasa and Show wish to make any additions to the existing 2,500-square-foot dwelling.

“This is a rare opportunity to own a piece of architectural history, ready for someone who values its beauty and rich history,” the listing concluded.

It appears that LaNasa and Show fell head over heels for the home — paying more than $100,000 over the original asking price of $1.99 million to secure the property.

The purchase undoubtedly marked a bold new chapter for LaNasa, who recently admitted that she had been in “a dark place” before she secured her role in “The Pitt,” a sadness she attributed to her February 2023 breast cancer diagnosis, coupled with the fact that she had been “unemployed for a while.”

LaNasa has seen her star rise to wild new heights since she debuted the character, even claiming an Emmy Award for Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 2025 ceremony.

But the actress recently opened up during a recent appearance on Stephen Colbert’s late night show about the many more impactful ways that her life transformed after she landed “The Pitt.”

“About a year before I got ‘The Pitt’ I was in a dark place, I had been unemployed for a while, I had cancer,” she recalled.

The actress went on to reveal that, as a youngster, she had always been taught, when times were tough, to examine how she might have changed her fortunes — admitting that she schooled herself into thinking that if she “did everything perfectly,” she would be immune to any kind of loss or hardship.

“So when I found myself in this place, I felt like a failure. And I was riddled with regret,” she confessed. “And I had these ongoing thoughts of like, ‘If only you hadn’t whiffed that meeting,’ or, ‘Why did you say that?’ or ‘Why did you use hormones to get pregnant?’ or ‘Why did you drink so much?’ or ‘If only I’d started using Botox in my 30s.’”

LaNasa admitted that she gave herself “no grace,” even as she struggled through her cancer treatment — until, that is, she saw a clip from an interview between Colbert and CNN host Anderson Cooper, in which the two men discussed how grief had impacted their lives.

According to LaNasa, watching Colbert speak out about grief as being an essential part of the human experience helped her to understand that she didn’t have the ability to insulate herself from bad emotions, at least not if she wanted to truly experience the good ones.

“I saw that clip of you talking to Anderson Cooper that is so very famous. And you, and I paraphrase, say, ‘Our grief and our loss is part of what makes us human and it allows us to understand and connect with other people. And if we’re really going to love our life, we have to love all of it, we can’t turn our back on that part,’” she recalled.

“You’re pretty smart! And I heard you, I heard you. In the depths of my despair, I heard you. And I started to live by this new thing, which was: Sometimes you lose. Sometimes you get the short end of the stick, sometimes you do it wrong.

“Life is going to bring us great beauty and great joy, but it’s also going to knock us on our ass, and bring us grief and loss. So I started to live by this, I started to lighten up.”

Soon after, LaNasa landed the role of Dana on “The Pitt,” a part that she said her cancer battle “fed beautifully into,” particularly when it came to understanding the integral role that medical workers play in our lives.

“And it connected with people and they gave me an Emmy, and I got up on the stage! And I was so overwhelmed that I just felt like I whiffed everything I wanted to say. But I had the good sense to take in all of the joy and energy that was coming from the room,” she added.

LaNasa’s candid confession about how her life changed thanks to her role in “The Pitt” comes just days after her co-star, Noah Wyle, made a similar admission about the show.

Wyle, who has for many years chosen to live on a sprawling ranch in Santa Ynez, CA, away from the bright lights of Hollywood, opened up about his struggles in an interview with The New York Times, telling the outlet that things became so “bleak,” as the publication put it, he even considered selling his baseball-card collection to raise some extra cash.

While Wyle had appeared in several projects in the wake of “ER,” nothing he did seemed to mirror the success of that first major hit — and he soon found that interest in his career began to wane.

The actor, who has three children — a son, Owen, 23, and daughter, Auden, 20, with ex-wife Tracy, and a daughter, Frances, with his second wife, Sara — recalled a moment several years ago when, in the face of mounting bills, he pulled out his impressive collection of baseball cards and arranged them all in a display book so that an expert could assess their value.

Property records show that Wyle also broached the idea of selling his longtime home in Santa Ynez, a sprawling 80-acre estate that he moved to as “ER” was coming to an end.

According to Realtor.com® data, the property was put on the market for just under $6.5 million in March 2020; however, the listing was withdrawn in June of that same year.

It’s unclear whether the actor made the decision to list the home as a result of the financial struggles he was facing around that same time.

Wyle had purchased the property — which is made up of two parcels — during his final years filming “ER,” explaining to Cowboys & Indians magazine in 2019 that he wanted his children to have a more rural upbringing, without being too far from Los Angeles.

“I needed to be geographically close to Los Angeles just for practical purposes, but I didn’t want to raise my kids in Los Angeles,” he explained. “I was raised in Los Angeles. I’m an Angeleno, and I just wanted something a little bit more rural and smaller and slower than city life for my kids.

“Two hours was about as far as I could drive after work on a Friday night when I was doing ‘ER’ and not fall asleep at the wheel.”

The actor noted that the family had embraced an abundance of wildlife on the ranch, and added pigs, chickens, horses, dogs, and cats to their brood.

Before moving out to the ranch, Wyle and his family had been living in a property in Los Feliz, which he offloaded in 2004, having listed the property for $3.8 million.

Speaking to the Times, Wyle did not specify when his financial struggles became so serious, but he credits the COVID-19 pandemic with helping him to find new purpose in his life, in part because, instead of being unable to find work that really mattered, he was forced to stop working altogether.

While this may not have helped his finances, it did prompt a resurgence in his popularity — as medical professionals began turning to Wyle and his “ER” co-stars for a kind of comfort.

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Wyle admits that they premiered “The Pitt” with no real idea of how it would perform — only to discover that lightning really can strike twice, with droves of viewers flocking to binge the entire first series, which documents a single day in the emergency room, hour-by-hour.

HBO Max renewed the show for a second season before the first installment of episodes had finished airing, with the latest episodes debuting on Jan. 8 — less than four months after “The Pitt” pulled off a trio of major wins at the 2025 Emmy Awards.

Speaking to Variety at the premiere of the second season of the series, Wyle admitted that he was stunned by the response to the show, telling the outlet on the red carpet: “I didn’t think lighting would strike twice like this in my life, 30 years apart … it’s the greatest gift.”

When asked if he had a message for his younger self, he was quick to share: “Don’t worry so much, it’s gonna work out OK. Don’t sell your baseball [card] collection.”