Gaby Hoffmann is an actress who started appearing in films at the age of four in order to help pay bills in the family. Perhaps she was too young to understand the enormity of this sacrifice. She has made Broadway appearances and her career growth has been a joy to watch. Here is everything you need to know about the actress.
Gaby Hoffmann: Bio and early life
Gaby Hoffmann is no relation to Alphy Hoffman and it is not even the same spelling. She is the daughter of Viva, also known as Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann who is an actress, writer, and former Warhol superstar. Her father Anthony Herrera who has Spanish and Puerto Rican roots was a soap opera actor best known for his role as James Stenbeck from “As the World Turns.”
Gaby was born in Manhattan, New York City on January 8, 1982. When she was still a baby, her parents divorced and life began to happen to her and her mother so quickly. The family soon started living on people’s goodwill as they moved into an apartment at the Chelsea Hotel alongside her half-sister Alexandra, born out of her mother’s earlier marriage to Michel Auder.
According to Gaby, being raised at the Chelsea hotel was fun as she and her best friend Talya Shomron would roller-skate in the hallways, spy on the drug dealer across the hall. She attended elementary school in Manhattan at P.S. 3 on Hudson Street in the West Village, then another school in Hell’s Kitchen.
Things, however, turned badly for them as they were evicted from the Chelsea Hotel for not paying the monthly rent of $920 for two years in 1994. They moved to Los Angeles the same year and she continued her education at the Buckley School, before finally graduating from Calabasas High School in 1999.
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She graduated from Calabasas High School in 1999 and entered New York’s Bard College to chase a degree in literature and writing. While she was studying, she made out time to hustle for roles in films in order to support herself. Later in 2001, she took a hiatus from acting and focus on her studies and finally graduated in 2004.
Gaby Hoffmann is 37 years old.
Gaby Hoffmann: Career
Gaby Hoffmann’s career started when she was four years old, however, her major breakthrough in the acting industry came in her adult life. In 1989, she starred in her first movie, “Field of Dreams” with Kevin Costner. This was immediately followed by an appearance in “Uncle Buck” where she appeared alongside John Candy. However, she lost interest in acting and temporarily retired. Nevertheless, upon hearing that Macaulay Culkin was making a lot of money in feature films, her “competitive spirit got the best of her”, as she later put it, and she re-entered the profession.
She returned to acting in 1992 and appeared in “This is my Life” She stated that it was the praise she received for her performance in “This Is My Life” which encouraged her to pursue a full-time acting career in Hollywood as it gave her the confidence she needed to handle major roles.
Gaby Hoffmann starred in her own sitcom “Someone Like Me” on NBC about a young girl, Gaby, and her dysfunctional family. Although generally well-received, the show only lasted six episodes. She won the lead role opposite Shelley Long in the 1995 TV film “Freaky Friday”, a remake of the 1976 film of the same name starring Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris.
She made her Broadway entry in a theatre career in New York where she featured in 24 Hour Plays as Denise at the American Airlines Theatre. Her theater flirting lasted until 2007 when she returned to television and motion pictures.
In 2009, Hoffmann had a supporting role in Todd Solondz’s “Life During Wartime” and the thriller “13” with Mickey Rourke. Since 2014, she has been playing the role of Alexandria “Ali” Pfefferman in the web television series “Transparent”.
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She has been nominated in various award categories in the acting industry but has managed to win one only which came in 1990 for playing Kevin Costner’s daughter, Karin Kinsella in “Field of Dreams”. This role earned her the Best Young Actress Supporting Role in a Motion Picture at the Young Artist Foundation’s Eleventh Annual Youth in Film.
Gaby Hoffmann: Spouse, net worth, height, and body measurement
Gaby Hoffmann has been in a long term relationship with cinematographer Chris Dapkins. The couple has a daughter named Rosemary, born at home on November 19, 2014. They live in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Gaby Hoffmann has a net worth of 2 million dollars. She stands at a height of 5 ft 7 inches or 170 meters. She weighs 60kg or 132 pounds and her bra size is 36B. Her body measurements are 36-26-36 inches. She endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Bernie might be running for office again in 2020, would Gaby endorse him again?
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