“I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.”

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.