Gabriella Mary "Gaby" Hoffmann is an American film and television actress who was a former child actress, most well known for recently appearing in the television series Louie, Girls, and Transparent.
Gabriella Mary Hoffmann , Gabriella Hoffmann , Gaby Hoffman , Gabriella Mary "Gaby" Hoffmann , Gaby , Gabriella Mary Antonia Hoffmann , Gabriella Mary Hoffman
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Capricorn
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[re Los Angeles] I feel like everyone here is so creative. They think up a project, and the next thing you know, they're doing it.
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[re childhood days with friend Claire Danes] Growing up in downtown New York City in the '80s, we were ensconced in art and progressive thinking,Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator. We never felt patronized.
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[re other child stars] I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one.
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I love Beyoncé Knowles", I do. But I was walking down the street and saw this huge billboard for the documentary she made about herself called, 'Life Is But a Dream.' Underneath the billboard is this homeless guy, then there's me with $2 in my bank account, and I'm thinking, Life is but a dream? I mean, I love you, B, but really?
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[re her childhood growing up in and around the Chelsea Hotel] We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare...
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(June 4, 2014) Expecting her 1st child with her boyfriend Chris Dapkins.
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When she was still living in New York, she first attended P.S. 3. Following this, she attended the Professional Children's School. When she moved to Los Angeles, California, she first attended The Buckley School. She eventually graduated from Calabasas High School in June 1999.
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Found an apartment in Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, NY, USA. [July 2013]
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Her mother co-wrote a book, still unpublished, called "Gaby at the Chelsea," a downtown, offbeat version of sorts of "Eloise" at the Plaza.
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Appeared in a McGruff the Crime Dog anti-drug ad with Drew Barrymore in 1989.
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Her paternal grandfather, Rafael Antonio Herrera, was the son of a Puerto Rican father and a Spanish mother. The rest of her ancestry is German, Irish, English, and 1/16th Italian (Sicilian).
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Best friends with actress Christina Ricci.
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In the fall of 1999 Gaby entered Bard College, where she continues to study between projects.
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Daughter of former cult actress Viva and soap-opera actor Anthony Herrera, who was never a presence in Hoffman's life, even after she met him for the first time when she was five years old.
$500 Thousand
