Gaby Hoffmann Movies and Career Information

Gabriella Mary "Gaby" Hoffmann (born January 8, 1982) is an American actress. Hoffmann was born in New York City. Her mother, Viva (aka Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann), is an actress and writer and appeared in many of Andy Warhol's movies during the 1960s. Hoffmann also has a half-sister, Alexandra Auder, who is 11 years older than she and who also once worked as an actress before becoming a yoga teacher and author. In her autobiography Famous for 15 Minutes: My Years With Andy Warhol, Isabelle Collin Dufresne (known as 'Ultra Violet' and who was a member of Warhol’s 'Factory' clique along with Hoffmann’s mother) says that Gaby Hoffman's father was a soap opera actor who denied paternity. She did not name him. Hence, Hoffmann’s last name is her mother's maiden name. Her birth is documented in Brigid Berlin's The Andy Warhol Diaries. An entry dated January 10, 1982, two days after Hoffman was born, says that a friend of Warhol’s telephoned Warhol up and told him that they were going to the Chelsea Hotel to see Viva and her new baby. Until 1993, Hoffmann had lived in the well-known Chelsea Hotel in New York City, which Hoffmann later said she enjoyed. According to Hoffmann, she and her