Biography
Gabrielle Mary Hoffmann (born January 8, 1982) is an American film and television actress best known for her roles on Sleepless in Seattle, Transparent and Girls, which garnered her nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2015, respectively. Additionally, she is remembered as a child actress from the films Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck, Now and Then, and Volcano.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
2025
as Adele Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen, a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past

The Mastermind
2025
as Maude
In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, hi...

For Worse
2025
Lauren, a newly divorced, sober mom, feels like she has a new lease on life after joining her first acting class and starting a fling with her hot, yo...

Little Death
2024
as Martin 2.0
A middle-aged filmmaker on the verge of a breakthrough. Two kids in search of a lost backpack. A small dog a long way from home.

C'mon C'mon
2021
as Viv
Johnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they embark on a cross-country trip to see life away from Los Angel...

Transparent: Musicale Finale
2019
as Ari Pfefferman
When the Pfeffermans face a life-changing loss, they begin a journey hilarious and melancholy, brazen and bold. As they face this new transition, they...

Cindy Sherman #untitled
2019
Cindy Sherman is one of the world’s leading contemporary artists. She is also notoriously elusive. So, it is a coup for Arena to get this in-depth and...

Manhattan Romance
2015
as Emmy
Danny, a commercial editor and documentary filmmaker attempts to finish his film, a study on relationship while navigating the relationships in his ow...

Everything Is Copy
2015
as Self
A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.

Wild
2014
as Aimee
A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Lyle
2014
as Leah
Leah's grief over her toddler's death turns into paranoia when she begins to suspect her neighbours are part of a satanic cult.

Pauline Alone
2014
as Pauline
A woman tries to connect with people she's never met.

Obvious Child
2014
as Nellie
An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregna...

Veronica Mars
2014
as Ruby Jetson
Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown - just in time for her high school reu...

Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus
2013
as Crystal Fairy
Jamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends are...

Goodbye World
2013
as Laura
When a mysterious cyber-attack cripples civilization, a group of old college friends and lovers retreat to a remote country cabin, where they must cop...

All That I Am
2013
as Susan
On the eve of an annual sibling reunion, a troubled young writer is sent reeling with the arrival of an unexpected guest.

Nate & Margaret
2012
as Darla
Nate, a 19 year old film student, and Margaret, a 52 year old spinster, are best friends in an odd, quirky, totally working kind of way... until Nate'...

Life During Wartime
2010
as Wanda
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solond...

13
2010
as Clara
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble be...

Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America
2009
as Orn's Wife
On the coast of North America in AD 1007, two Norsemen are stranded when their expedition is attacked and they are left for dead. As they struggle to ...

The Eastmans
2009
as Dr. Sally Eastman
Within a family of doctors, the parents and the adult children find themselves successful professionally but dysfunctional personally. When the patria...

Chelsea on the Rocks
2008
as Self
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once considered an un...

Sweet Ruin
2008
as The Girl / T.
An unproduced screenplay by Michelangelo Antonioni provides the basis for this existential tale of a gun-obsessed journalist, starring Gaby Hoffmann i...

Perfume
2001
as Gabrielle Mancini
A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York Ci...

You Can Count on Me
2000
as Sheila
A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

Black and White
1999
as Raven
Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high schoo...

Coming Soon
1999
as Jenny Simon
Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than j...

200 Cigarettes
1999
as Stephie
In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years ...

Snapped
1998
as Tara
Snapped examines the lives of a colorful group of young people as they try to connect with each other and stay amused in a sleepy Long Island town. Ta...

Strike!
1998
as Odette
In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a ...

Volcano
1997
as Kelly Roark
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins ...

Everyone Says I Love You
1996
as Lane Dandridge
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.

Now and Then
1995
as Samantha
Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty, four childhood girlfriends — Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta — recall t...

Whose Daughter is She?
1995
as Andrea Eagerton
Two mothers, one biological, one stepmother, fight for the custody and love of 13-year-old Andrea.

Freaky Friday
1995
as Annabelle Andrews
Fun-loving Annabelle Andrews and her uptight mother, Ellen, have a hard time getting along with each other. One Friday the 13th, they both wear magica...

The Man Without a Face
1993
as Megan Norstadt
Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlie...

Sleepless in Seattle
1993
as Jessica
After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Talking about his father’s loneliness s...

This Is My Life
1992
as Opal Ingels
Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store, but she dreams of being a comedian. When she inherits some money, she takes the chance...

Uncle Buck
1989
as Maizy Russell
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewhe...

Field of Dreams
1989
as Karin Kinsella
Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's direct...