1. Gabrielle Mary Antonia Hoffmann was born on January 8,1982 and is an American actress.
25 Facts About Gaby Hoffmann
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Gaby Hoffmann made her film debut in Field of Dreams and found success as a child actress in Uncle Buck, This Is My Life, Sleepless in Seattle, and then later as a teenager with Now and Then, Everyone Says I Love You, Volcano, All I Wanna Do, and 200 Cigarettes.
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Gaby Hoffmann was born in New York City to actor parents.
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Gaby Hoffmann's mother, Viva, is a retired actress, writer and former Warhol superstar.
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Gaby Hoffmann's father, Anthony Herrera, was a soap opera actor best known for his role as James Stenbeck in As the World Turns.
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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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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 concentrated on theater 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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Gaby Hoffmann took a recurring role portraying Caroline Sackler, the sister of Adam Sackler on the Lena Dunham created HBO series Girls from 2014 to 2017.
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Gaby Hoffmann's performance was well-received and earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2015.
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Joey Soloway, who had watched Hoffman in the third season of Louie, would subsequently write the role Gaby Hoffmann plays in Transparent.
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Gaby Hoffmann acted opposite Joaquin Phoenix playing his estranged sister, Viv, whose husband is going through mental problems.
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Gaby Hoffmann was nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance.
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Gaby Hoffmann has a daughter, born in 2014, with longtime boyfriend, cinematographer Chris Dapkins.