90s child star is in one of the most hotly-anticipated Netflix shows of 2024-Ruth Lawes-Entertainment – Metro

Gaby Hoffmann was in children film classic Uncle Buck (Picture: Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock)

90s child star Gaby Hoffmann, who was in classic films Sleepless in Seattle and Uncle Buck, will feature opposite one of Netflix’s hottest releases.

The actress will star alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, 47, in Netflix thriller Eric about a desperate father on the hunt for his missing son in 80s New York.

Gaby plays Benedict’s on-screen partner in the six episode thriller, which was created by The Split’s Abi Morgan.

Now 42, Gaby has been acting since she was a child, kicking off her Hollywood career in the 1989 movie Field of Dreams.

She later starred in the John Hughes comedy film Uncle Buck, playing one of the children who is babysat by their uncle, portrayed by the late John Candy.

In 1993, Gaby was cast as the friend of Tom Hanks’ son in the Nora Ephron romcom classic Sleepless in Seattle, about a journalist (Meg Ryan) who becomes enamoured with a widowed architect (Hanks).

Gaby also had a small role in Nora Ephron’s Sleepless in Seattle (Picture: Tristar Films)

Now she is starring opposite Benedict in Netflix thriller Eric (Picture: Ludovic Robert/Netflix)

Gaby has appeared in films since the late 80s and is still an actor now (Picture: Kate Green/Getty Images)

As a teenager, Gaby featured in the coming-of-age film Now and Then, and other movies including Everyone Says I Love You and All I Wanna Do.

More recently, she played Adam Sackler’s (Adam Driver) sister Caroline Sackler in the HBO smash hit series Girls, as well as Ali Pfefferman in Amazon Prime’s Transparent.

Despite starting acting at an early age, Gaby, the daughter of Andy Warhol’s music and actor Viva, previously told The Guardian she ‘didn’t care about it at all.’

She continued: ‘I didn’t think about acting. I didn’t have any relationship to it. I loved being on movie sets, but the acting itself … ?’

More recently she starred in hit Amazon series Transparent (Picture: Jennifer Clasen/Amazon/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)

Gaby also played Adam Driver’s sister in HBO series Girls (Picture: HBO)

In her late teens and early 20s, Gaby took a break from showbiz and studied at Bard College before taking on an assortment of jobs, including an internship with a chef in Italy.

However, she later returned to acting – even if, by her own admission, she doesn’t like doing it ‘that much.’

Gaby said while laughing: ‘I really love my job so much. I feel like the luckiest person in the world that I get to do this for a living, but I don’t want to do it that often.’

Eric follows Vincent (Cumberbatch), one of New York’s leading puppet makers and the creator of a wildly popular children’s TV show. But his life unravels when his nine-year-old son goes missing on the way to school.

Gaby admitted that she doesn’t like to act ‘all the time’ (Picture: 2022 Home Box Office, Inc. Al)

Full of guilt, he comes convinced that if he can get his son’s pictures of a monster puppet called Eric on TV, then he will return, sparking a path of self-destruction.

Speaking about Eric, Benedict told Netflix: ‘This is a story about people finding their home.

‘Whether it’s a child, a homeless person, a gay Black cop, a wife in an unhappy marriage, or even Eric on the show, it’s all about finding a place.’

Eric lands on Netflix on May 30.

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