Trivia

Best friends with actress Christina Ricci.

Daughter of former cult actress Viva and soap-opera actor Anthony Herrera, who was never a presence in Hoffman's life, even after she met him for the first time when she was five years old.

Appeared in a McGruff the Crime Dog anti-drug ad with Drew Barrymore in 1989.

As a child, after leaving the Chelsea Hotel, Gaby, her mother and their two Eskimo dogs moved into a two-bedroom rental house in Woodland Hills which had been damaged in the January 1994 earthquake. In an article in Entertainment Weekly in March 1994, Gaby said that she missed her former home at the Chelsea Hotel, where she and her best friend Talya Shomron "would roller-skate in the hallways, spy on the drug dealer across the hall and dispatch the bellman to fetch ice cream at night from the neighborhood deli.".

Revealed to have had a crush on Ray Liotta when they shot Field of Dreams (1989).

Mother, with boyfriend Chris Dapkins, of daughter Rosemary Dapkins, born on November 19, 2014.

Her mother co-wrote a book, still unpublished, called "Gaby at the Chelsea," a downtown, offbeat version of sorts of "Eloise" at the Plaza.

In the fall of 1999 Gaby entered Bard College, where she continues to study between projects.

Her paternal grandfather, Rafael Antonio Herrera, was the son of a French father, Gaston Louis Malécot, from Romorantin, Loir-et-Cher, and a Spanish mother, Mariana Benita Ramirez, who was born in Riópar, Albacete, Castile-La Mancha. Gaby's grandfather was raised by his own mother and stepfather, Antonio J. Herrera. The rest of Gaby's ancestry is German, Irish, English, Scottish, and 1/16th Italian/Sicilian.

When she was still living in New York, she first attended P.S. 3. Following this, she attended the Professional Children's School. When she moved to Los Angeles, California, she first attended The Buckley School. She eventually graduated from Calabasas High School in June 1999.

Younger half-sister of actress Alexandra Auder.

Ex-stepdaughter of Michel Auder.

Found an apartment in Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, NY, USA. (July 2013)