Gaby Hoffmann is an American film and television actress who is known for her roles in films and TV shows such as Uncle Buck, Whose Daughter Is She, Vulcan, Conspiracy of Pranks, Obvious, etc. Let the list of projects include her participation is still small, but there are those in it, thanks to which Gaby received awards and was twice nominated for an Emmy Award. In the article we will get acquainted with the biography and filmography of the actress.
Biography
Gabi Hoffmann (photo below) was born in 1982 in New York in the family of the famous actress and writer Viva and theater actor Anthony Herrera. She did not know her father well, because after her birth, her parents divorced, and Gaby moved with her mother to Chelsea, one of the most famous hotels in New York. When the girl turned 11 years old, they bought an apartment in Los Angeles in a house that was damaged in 1994 by an earthquake. Therefore, while the repair work was going on, the family lived in the Ocean Suites guesthouse in Santa Monica, California.
After moving to Los Angeles, Gaby Hoffmann attended the preparatory school Buckley School. In 1999, she graduated from Calabasas High School State High School, and then enrolled at Bard College, New York's private liberal arts college, where she earned a degree in writing and literature. To do this, she even had to temporarily stop acting, which at that time she was already actively engaged in.
First roles
Gaby Hoffmann's career began at a very young age. So, being a five-year-old girl, she began to appear in commercials, which greatly facilitated the payment of bills to her mother. And in 1989, she began her filmography, starring in the fantasy drama of Phil Alden Robinson's Field of Miracles. Moreover, the debut role in 1990 brought her the first award at the Young Artist Awards.
In 1989, another film with Gaby Hoffmann was released - John Hughes comedy "Uncle Buck" about the unemployed, drinking, smoking, living in a small apartment, Buck Russell, who was asked to look after the three children of his brother. And three years later, she replenished the main cast of Nora Efron’s drama “This Is My Life, ” based on the book by American writer Meg Volitzer.
Freaky Friday volcano
In 1993, the actress received the role of Meghan Norstadt, the supporting character in the dramatic film by Gibson “Man Without a Face”. Two years later, she starred in the television comedy Melanie Meyron "Freaky Friday", where her heroine, Anabel, under the influence of magical amulets changes bodies with her mother. And starred in the drama of Frank Arnold "Whose daughter is she?" (1995) on the struggle of stepmother and biological mother for custody of 11-year-old Andrei.
In 1995, Gaby Hoffmann tried on the image of the young Samantha Albertson - a strange girl who sincerely believes in paranormal phenomena, in the comedy drama Leslie Linky Glatter "Now and Then."
In the role of Kelly Roark, the daughter of the head of the emergency department, she appeared in Mick Jackson's disaster film “Volcano” (1997).
Together with Kirsten Dunst starred in the comedy film by Sarah Kernokan “The Conspiracy of Pranks” (1998). And he composed the company to Robert Downey Jr. in the James Dobak crime drama Black and White (1999).
