Gaby Hoffmann

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Gabriella Mary Hoffmann (born January 8, 1982) is an American film, stage and television actress.<p>Hoffmann was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Viva Hoffmann (née Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann), is an actress and writer who appeared in many of Andy Warhol's movies during the 1960s. Hoffmann also has a half-sister, Alexandra Auder, who is eleven years older than she and 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 Viva) says that Gaby'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. Viva had Gaby relatively late as she was 44 when Gaby was born. Gaby’s birth is documented in Brigid Berlin's "The Andy Warhol Diaries". An entry dated the January 10 1982, two days after...