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Gabriella Mary "Gaby" Hoffmann (born January 8, 1982) is an American actress.
Early life
Birth
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 (Alex) Auder, who is 10 years older than she and who also works as an actor, author, and teaches yoga. 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 and told him that they were going to the Chelsea Hotel to see Viva and her new baby.
Life at the Chelsea Hotel
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 best friend Talya Shomron would roller-skate in the hallways, spy on the drug dealer across the hall, and persuade the bellman to go to the neighbourhood deli at night and get them ice cream. Hoffman and her mother left the Chelsea Hotel in July 1993 after a dispute of long standing with the management, but the hotel ended up featuring prominently in Hoffmann's future. The idea for the 1994 sitcom Someone Like Me originated after Gail Berman (now president of Viacom's Paramount Pictures), the show's producer, read a New York Times article about the Hotel which referred to a children's book which Viva and friend Jane Lancellotti wrote entitled Gaby at the Chelsea (a take on Kay Thompson's 1950's classic Eloise books). After leaving the Chelsea Hotel, Hoffmann and her mother (and their two Eskimo dogs) moved to a two-bedroom rented house in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California which ended up being badly damaged in a January 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake. While regrouping their living situation, Gaby and her mother temporarily lived at The Oceana Suites Hotel in Santa Monica, not too distant from Malibu.
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