Gabby Hoffman has received acclaim as a supporting actress in many of the films and shows she has starred in. Gabriella Mary Hoffman was born on 8th January, 1982, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of cult actress Viva Hoffman and grew up in New York’s famed Chelsea Hotel. She lived with her mother and older sister Alexandra until the summer of 1993 in the hotel itself. They left after a prolonged dispute with the management and moved to a rented house in Woodland Hills. Even after they had moved out of the Chelsea hotel, Hoffman continued to reminisce about her days at the hotel spent with her best friend Talya Shomron. Gabby Hoffman joined the Bard College in 1999 and still takes courses here in between her projects.
Her association with the Chelsea Hotel featured prominently in her career as well. Someone Like Me was conceived after Gail Berman, the show’s producer, read an article about the Chelsea Hotel in The New York Times. The article was on a children’s book titled Gaby at the Chelsea, written by Viva and her good friend Jane Lancellotti.
Hoffman started to act in commercials when she turned four in a bid to help her family pay bills. She debuted in the film Uncle Buck (1988). She had strong supporting roles in Field of Dreams (1989), The Man Without a Face (1993), This is My Life (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and Someone Like Me (1994). She also appeared in Strike (1998), 200 Cigarettes (1999), Coming Soon (1999), Black and White (1999). You Can Count on Me (2000) and recently in Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (2007).
Hoffman has appeared in the Wendy Wasserstein play Third (2005), as Dani in the Lucy Prebble play The Sugar Syndrome (2005) and has played Sooze in Suburbia (2006), a play by Eric Bogosian.
She has been nominated many times for the Young Artist Award and even won the Young Artist Award Best Young Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for Field of Dreams. In a short span she has already worked with veterans including the late John Candy, Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks and Kevin Costner.
Her production venture Chelsea on the Rocks has reached its post-production stage. She is close friends with Christina Ricci, but is extremely private about her personal life.
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