Gabrielle Mary Hoffmann (born January 8, 1982) is an American film and television actress best known for her roles on Sleepless in Seattle, Transparent and Girls, which garnered her nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2015, respectively. Additionally, she is remembered as a child actress from the films Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck, Now and Then, and Volcano.\n', '

Hoffmann was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Viva (born Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann), is an actress, writer and former Warhol superstar, and her father, Anthony Herrera, was a soap opera actor best known for his role as James Stenbeck from As the World Turns. 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. Hoffmann\'s birth is documented in Brigid Berlin\'s The Andy Warhol Diaries. An entry dated January 10, 1982, two days after Hoffmann was born, says that a friend of Warhol\'s telephoned Warhol and told him that they were going to the Chelsea Hotel to see Viva and her new baby.\n', '

Hoffmann\'s mother was raised in a devout Catholic family on Long Island, the daughter of an attorney. She was previously married to director Michel Auder in 1969. Gaby has a half-sister, Alexandra "Alex" Auder, who is 11 years older. Auder teaches yoga in New York City. Hoffmann\'s father was raised in Wiggins, Mississippi by his maternal grandparents; his own father, Gaby\'s biological great-grandfather was referenced, viewed, and stated on the PBS series, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Season 4, Episode 8, to be Gaston L Malecot. An instructor at Columbia University and a World War 1 veteran. Herrera died in 2011 from cancer.\n', '

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