Gaby Hoffmann | |
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Born | Gabrielle Mary Antonia Hoffmann January 8, 1982 New York City, U.S. |
Alma mater | Bard College (2004) |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1988–present |
Partner | Chris Dapkins |
Children | 2 |
Parents |
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Gabrielle Mary Antonia Hoffmann [1] [2] (born January 8, 1982) [3] is an American actress. She made her film debut in Field of Dreams (1989) and found success as a child actress acting in Uncle Buck (1989), This Is My Life (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), and then later as a teenager with Now and Then (1995), Everyone Says I Love You (1996) Volcano (1997), All I Wanna Do (1998), and 200 Cigarettes (1999).
After a hiatus, Hoffmann returned to film acting in 2007, appearing in various independent projects that garnered critical acclaim. This has been described as a career "resurgence", [4] due to her roles in Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013), Obvious Child (2014), Wild (2015), and C'mon C'mon (2021). On television, she played April in the FX series Louie (2012), Caroline Sackler in the HBO series Girls (2014–2017), and Ali Pfefferman in the Amazon Prime series Transparent (2014–2019), earning three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the latter two. [5]
Hoffmann was born in New York City [6] to actor parents. Her mother, Viva (born Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann), [7] is a retired actress, writer and former Warhol superstar. [8] Her father, Anthony Herrera, [9] was a soap opera actor best known for his role as James Stenbeck in As the World Turns . [10] Herrera was raised in Wiggins, Mississippi by his maternal grandparents; his own father, Gaby's paternal grandfather, was of French and Spanish descent. [2] Herrera died in 2011 from cancer. [10] Viva and Herrera were estranged shortly after Hoffmann's birth; she was raised by her mother at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. Her father did not have a significant presence in her life. [11] [12] Hoffmann's birth is documented in Pat Hackett's The Andy Warhol Diaries . An entry dated January 10, 1982, two days after 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.[ citation needed ]
Hoffmann's mother, the daughter of an attorney, was raised in a conservative and devoutly Catholic family in New York State. [12] [13] [14] 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. [1] [15]
Hoffmann attended elementary school in Manhattan at P.S. 3 on Hudson Street in the West Village, then another school in Hell's Kitchen. After she moved to Los Angeles in 1994, she attended the Buckley School, before finally graduating from Calabasas High School in 1999. [16]
Until July 1993, Hoffmann lived in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel, which Hoffmann later said she enjoyed. According to Hoffmann, she and her best friend Talya Shomron roller-skated in the hallways, spied on the drug dealer across the hall, and persuaded the bellman to go to the neighborhood delicatessen at night to fetch them ice cream. [11]
Hoffmann recalled, "I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s. I have a friend who grew up with me, and she puts it well. She 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.' I grew up in a world where I guess what is considered unusual or abnormal for the rest of America was very much considered the norm." [17] She also reported in an interview that there had been gunfire and a rape at the hotel shortly before they moved out. [12]
Hoffmann and her mother left the Chelsea Hotel after a long-standing dispute with the management that ended in eviction. [12] Regardless, Hoffmann's connection to the hotel had a significant effect on her future. The idea for the 1994 sitcom Someone Like Me originated after Gail Berman (former president of Viacom's Paramount Pictures) read a New York Times article [1] about the hotel which referred to a children's book that Viva and friend Jane Lancellotti wrote, Gaby at the Chelsea (a take on Kay Thompson's 1950s classic Eloise books). Berman became the show's producer.
After leaving the Chelsea when Hoffmann was 12, [16] she and her mother moved to the west coast to a two-bedroom rented house in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, which was badly damaged in the January 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake. While regrouping their living situation, Hoffmann and her mother temporarily lived at The Oceana Suites Hotel in Santa Monica, California.[ citation needed ]
After she graduated from Calabasas High School in 1999, Hoffmann followed her half-sister Alex's example and entered New York's Bard College to pursue a degree in literature and writing. Around 2001, she temporarily left her acting career to complete her studies and graduated in 2004; her senior thesis was a documentary film. [12]
After college, she spent much of her 20s drifting. She interned with a chef in Italy, then trained to be a doula after helping deliver Alex's children. For a time, Hoffmann and a boyfriend lived in an old trailer in the Catskill Mountains. [1]
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Hoffmann began acting in commercials at the age of four to help pay the family bills. In 1989, she starred in her first movie, Field of Dreams, with Kevin Costner. She portrayed the main character’s daughter, Annie, who almost chokes to death on a wiener. 1989's Uncle Buck followed, working beside John Candy and up-and-coming child star Macaulay Culkin. However, she grew tired of the rigors of screen performance and temporarily retired. Nevertheless, upon hearing that Culkin (whom she disliked when they worked together [12] ) was making a lot of money in feature films, her "competitive spirit got the best of her", as she later put it, and she reentered the profession. She starred in This Is My Life (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993) with Tom Hanks, and The Man Without a Face with Mel Gibson. [18] According to Hoffmann, the praise she received for her performance in This is My Life encouraged her to pursue a full-time acting career in Hollywood as it gave her the confidence she needed to handle major roles. [18]
In 1994, Hoffmann starred in her own sitcom Someone Like Me (on NBC) about a young girl, Gaby, and her dysfunctional family. To promote it, Hoffmann appeared on late-night talk shows like The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Show with David Letterman. Although generally well received, the series lasted only six episodes.
After Someone Like Me, Hoffmann 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. In the same year as Freaky Friday, Hoffmann starred as Young Samantha, the childhood counterpart to Demi Moore's character, in the coming-of-age feature film Now and Then .
In 1995, Hoffmann played Andrea Eagerton in the CBS TV film Whose Daughter Is She? .
Between 1996 and 2001, Hoffmann landed roles in several films including Everyone Says I Love You (1996), Volcano (1997), Snapped (1998), The Hairy Bird (1998), 200 Cigarettes (1999), Coming Soon (1999), Black & White (1999), You Can Count on Me (2000), and Perfume (2001).
Between 2003 and 2007, Hoffmann largely concentrated on a theatre career in New York. Roles included 24 Hour Plays (as Denise at the American Airlines Theatre), The Sugar Syndrome (Williamstown Theatre Festival – July/August 2005), and Third (Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater/Lincoln Center Theater – September – December 2005). In late 2005, she starred in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent . She also 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. Hoffmann then returned to the 24 Hours Plays where she acted alongside Jennifer Aniston.
Since 2007, Hoffmann has made a gradual return to film acting. In 2007, she starred in the film Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America. In 2008, she appeared in Guest of Cindy Sherman, a documentary on art-scene commentator Paul Hasegawa-Overacker's relationship with enigmatic photographer Cindy Sherman. Sherman was married to Hoffmann's stepfather, Michel Auder, from 1984 to 1999. [19] Later in 2008, Hoffmann appeared in the documentary Chelsea on the Rocks , which is a tribute to the Chelsea Hotel where she grew up. Directed by Abel Ferrara, the documentary highlights the many personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from the legendary residence. [20] In 2009, she had a supporting role in Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime , and the thriller 13 with Mickey Rourke (released in 2010). [21]
Several years later, Hoffmann starred alongside Michael Cera in the adventure comedy film Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013) directed by Sebastián Silva. While shooting the film in Chile, she and Cera took mescaline for her performance in a climactic scene. [22] For her performance she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead losing to Cate Blanchett for Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine (2013). [23] In 2013, she completed work on the lead role of a Web series entitled Lyle, created by Stewart Thorndike and Joey Soloway. It was shot in NYC. She subsequently acquired an apartment in Brooklyn's Fort Greene section. [1] In October 2013, she starred in the 1910s installment of Vanity Fair's The Decades Series, "The First March", directed by Gilly Barnes. [24]
In 2012 she portrayed April, a love interested and neurotic ex-girlfriend of the title character portrayed by Louis C.K. in the FX series Louie . [25] Hoffmann stated of her character, "I thought it was a unique and fun, weird type of relationship that you don’t ever really see." She also said of her experience, "The set of Louie was one of the best sets I’ve ever been on... Louie, he’s just a real joy to work for. It’s a very collaborative experience, and he’s very respectful and nice to his crew, which is a really big deal." [26] Hoffmann took a recurring role portraying Caroline Sackler, the sister of Adam Sackler (Adam Driver) on the Lena Dunham created HBO series Girls from 2014 to 2017. [27] [17] Laura Bennett of The New Republic praised the performance writing, "A highlight is the introduction of a terrific, intense, genuinely scary new character—Adam’s unstable sister, played by Gaby Hoffmann, whose deep well of craziness casts the other characters' neuroses into sharp relief". [28] The role earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2015. [29]
Hoffmann stated of working on both shows, "Louis C.K. is doing a lot at once. He is the creator. He’s checking the camera; everybody is turning to him for guidance. The Girls set is much bigger, with many more people. The infrastructure is bigger. With Louie, it feels like a small independent film, but Girls is highly collaborative. [30] Joey Soloway wrote the role Hoffmann plays in Transparent for her after seeing her performance on Louis C.K.'s third season of Louie. [31] In 2016, she appeared in pre-recorded video as an onstage "stand-in" during Sia's Nostalgic for the Present concert tour, for the song "Unstoppable." [32] Her performance is featured on the song's official music video, released in 2021. [33]
Hoffmann has discussed her full frontal nude scenes in a few of her projects including Crystal Fairy, Girls and the Amazon series Transparent. [34] On nudity, Hoffmann said: "People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. They can’t imagine that people would want to be anything other than that. When they are, it's looked at as almost a political statement. Look at Lena Dunham. She 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. If Angelina Jolie was naked onscreen no one would say she was brave. The implication is that Lena's brave because she doesn't look the way she's supposed to look. I think that's a shame." [35]
In 2021, she acted in the Mike Mills drama C'mon C'mon . She acted opposite Joaquin Phoenix playing his estranged sister, Viv, whose husband is going through mental problems. David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "The relationships are drawn with affection and authenticity, which applies also to Hoffmann’s Viv, a woman who has worked hard to maintain an intellectual and spiritual life beyond the boundaries of being a mother and a caregiver to both her son and the boy's sometimes out-of-control father". [36] Hoffmann said the film "gets at so much of what is true, the essence of parenthood and its beauty and complexity and challenge." She also added that she feels grateful for the movie, "because I don't see many films made these days that are actually about life, the actual experience of what it is to be alive in this world, in this country right now." [37] For her performance she was nominated for the Outstanding Supporting Performance. [38]
Hoffmann has a daughter, [39] born in 2014, with longtime boyfriend, cinematographer Chris Dapkins (born November 19, 1980). [40] [41] [42] She lives in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. [35]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1989 | Field of Dreams | Karin Kinsella | |
Uncle Buck | Maizy Russell | ||
1992 | This Is My Life | Opal Ingels | |
1993 | Sleepless in Seattle | Jessica | |
The Man Without a Face | Megan Norstadt | ||
1995 | Now and Then | Samantha "Sam" Albertson | |
1996 | Everyone Says I Love You | Lane Dandridge | |
1997 | Volcano | Kelly Roark | |
1998 | All I Wanna Do | Odette Sinclair | |
Snapped | Tara | ||
1999 | 200 Cigarettes | Stephie | |
Coming Soon | Jenny Simon | ||
Black and White | Raven | ||
2000 | You Can Count on Me | Sheila Seidleman | |
2001 | Perfume | Gabrielle Mancini | |
2007 | Severed Ways | Orn's Wife | |
2009 | Life During Wartime | Wanda | |
2010 | 13 | Clara Ferro | |
2011 | Wolfe with an E | Karen | |
The Surrogate Mary | Sally | ||
2012 | Nate & Margaret | Darla | |
2013 | Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus | Crystal Fairy | |
All That I Am | Susan | ||
Goodbye World | Laura | ||
2014 | Obvious Child | Nellie | |
Veronica Mars | Ruby Jetson | ||
Wild | Aimee | ||
Lyle | Leah | ||
Manhattan Romance | Emmy | ||
2021 | C'mon C'mon | Viv | |
2024 | Little Death | Martin 2.0 |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1994 | Someone Like Me | Gaby Stepjak | 5 episodes |
1995 | Freaky Friday | Annabelle Andrews | Television film |
Whose Daughter Is She? | Andrea Eagerton | Television film | |
2005 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Rachel Burnett | Episode: "The Good Child" |
2009 | The Eastmans | Dr. Sally Eastman | Unsold television pilot |
2010 | Private Practice | Emily | Episode: "Just Lose It" |
2011 | The Good Wife | Rhonda Cerone | Episode: "Killer Song" |
Homeland | CNN Producer | Episode: "Clean Skin" | |
2012 | Louie | April | Episode: "Something Is Wrong" |
2014–2017 | Girls | Caroline Sackler | Recurring role (seasons 3–6), 8 episodes |
2014–2019 | Transparent | Ali Pfefferman | 42 episodes |
2016 | High Maintenance | Gaby | Episode: "Tick" |
2022–2023 | Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty | Claire Rothman | 17 episodes |
2024 | Eric | Cassie Anderson | Miniseries [43] |
TBA | Zero Day | Monica Kidder | In production |
Poker Face | TBA | [44] |
Year | Title | Role | Playwright | Venue | Ref. |
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2005 | The Sugar Syndrome | Dani | Lucy Prebble | Williamstown Theatre Festival | [45] |
Third | Emily Imbrie | Wendy Wasserstein | Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, Lincoln Center | [46] | |
2006 | SubUrbia | Sooze | Eric Bogosian | Second Stage Theatre, Off-Broadway | [47] |
2007 | The Machine | Ensemble | Betty Shamieh | The Duke On 42nd Street, Off-Broadway | [48] |
2010 | The 24 Hour Plays | Performer | Various | American Airlines Theatre, Broadway | [49] |
Year | Award | Category | Production | Result | Ref. |
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1990 | Young Artist Award | Best Young Actress Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | Field of Dreams | Won | [50] |
1993 | Young Artist Award | Best Young Actress Under Ten in a Motion Picture | This Is My Life | Nominated | [50] |
1994 | Young Artist Award | Best Youth Actress Co-Starring in a Motion Picture Drama | The Man Without a Face | Nominated | [50] |
1995 | Young Artist Award | Best Youth Comedienne in a TV Show | Someone Like Me | Nominated | [50] |
1996 | Young Artist Award | Best Performance by a Young Ensemble – Feature Film or Video | Now and Then | Nominated | [50] |
1997 | YoungStar Award | Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Comedy Film | Everyone Says I Love You | Nominated | [50] |
2013 | Independent Spirit Award | Best Female Lead | Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus | Nominated | [51] |
2015 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | Girls | Nominated | [52] |
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Transparent | Nominated | |||
2016 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series | Nominated | [53] | |
Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Nominated | [54] | ||
2021 | Gotham Awards | Outstanding Supporting Performance | C'mon, C'mon | Nominated | [55] |
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