22 Facts About Gaby Hoffmann

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Gabrielle Mary Antonia Hoffmann was born on January 8,1982 and is an American actress.

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Gaby Hoffmann initially found success as a child actress, appearing in Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck, and Sleepless in Seattle, and then later as a teenager with Now and Then, Volcano, All I Wanna Do, and 200 Cigarettes.

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Gaby Hoffmann's father did not have a significant presence in her life.

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Gaby Hoffmann's birth is documented in Pat Hackett's The Andy Warhol Diaries.

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An entry dated January 10,1982, two days after Gaby Hoffmann was born, says a friend telephoned Warhol and told him they were going to the Chelsea Hotel to see Viva and her new baby.

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Viva was previously married to director Michel Auder in 1969, by which union Gaby Hoffmann has an elder half-sister, Alexandra "Alex" Auder, who teaches yoga in New York City.

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Until July 1993, Gaby Hoffmann lived in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel, which Gaby Hoffmann later said she enjoyed.

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Gaby Hoffmann says, 'If you grew up where we grew up, if you weren't an artist, a drag queen, queer, or a drug addict, then you were the freak.

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Gaby Hoffmann interned with a chef in Italy, then trained to be a doula after helping deliver Alex's children.

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Gaby Hoffmann began acting in commercials at the age of four to help pay the family bills.

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Gaby Hoffmann starred in This Is My Life, Sleepless in Seattle with Tom Hanks, and The Man Without a Face with Mel Gibson.

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In 1994, Hoffmann starred in her own sitcom Someone Like Me about a young girl, Gaby, and her dysfunctional family.

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Between 2003 and 2007, Gaby Hoffmann largely concentrated on a theatre career in New York.

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Gaby Hoffmann appeared in the Broadway play Suburbia, alongside Kieran Culkin and Jessica Capshaw at the Second Stage Theatre on 43rd Street in New York City, which ran from September to October 2006.

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Gaby Hoffmann then returned to the 24 Hours Plays where she acted alongside Jennifer Aniston.

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Since 2007, Gaby Hoffmann has made a gradual return to film acting.

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Later in 2008, Gaby Hoffmann appeared in the documentary Chelsea on the Rocks, which is a tribute to the Chelsea Hotel where she grew up.

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In 2009, Gaby Hoffmann had a supporting role in Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime, and the thriller 13 with Mickey Rourke.

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Gaby Hoffmann has made guest appearances have been in the television series Louie and Girls in Season 3.

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Gaby Hoffmann subsequently acquired an apartment in Brooklyn's Fort Greene section.

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Gaby Hoffmann has discussed her full frontal nude scenes in a few of her projects including Crystal Fairy, Girls and the Amazon series Transparent.

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Gaby Hoffmann is a gorgeous woman and people can't stop talking about how brave she is to show herself naked, which I find totally condescending and ridiculous.