From a memorable early-career turn as the villain in the 1990 classic Ghost, to playing the U.S. president on the TV drama Scandal and U.S. attorney Gordon Gray in the 2024 Oscar-winner Oppenheimer, Goldwyn has been a reliable MVP on screens big and small for decades. His latest role, District Attorney Nicolas Baxter on NBC’s long- running Law & Order franchise, finds him filling the shoes of Sam Waterson, who retired from the show after 19 seasons.

“Honestly, I didn’t know quite what I was getting into,” admits the actor. “I had directed a Law & Order episode almost 20 years ago with Sam and I really enjoyed that experience,” he says. “It’s a New York institution.”

1. ANTIQUE BUDDHA BUST 

2. PHOTOGRAPH OF ELEONORA DUSE

3. WARHOL ‘MOONWALK’ LITHOGRAPH

“I had played Neil Armstrong in the [1998] HBO miniseries From Earth to the Moon, and that same year directed my first film, A Walk on the Moon, which featured the moon landing prominently in the storyline,” says the actor.

4. KAMIKOTO JAPANESE KITCHEN KNIFE

Another present that’s made its way to the Goldwyn household is this Japanese knife from friend Sabine Hoffman, the editor on the 2023 film Ezra, which Goldwyn directed, about parents on a journey—literally and metaphorically—with their autistic son.

5. BREVILLE ESPRESSO MACHINE