At the age of 30, having deliberately stepped away from acting and show business for five years to figure out what she wanted to do, Gaby Hoffmann has decided that acting is a choice she wants to make for herself – after a successful career based on a choice someone else made for her.

“Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is,” Hoffmann says in a telephone interview. “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.” (More…)