“I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.”

American actress

Gaby Hoffmann is an American actress. Born Gabrielle Mary Antonia Hoffmann, she began her film career in 1989 and became known first as a child performer, later as a teenager, in films from the late 1980s through the 1990s. She made her screen debut in Field of Dreams and went on to appear in Uncle Buck, This Is My Life, The Man Without a Face, and Sleepless in Seattle. As a teenager, she continued with roles in Now and Then, Everyone Says I Love You, Volcano, All I Wanna Do, and 200 Cigarettes.