Robby Hoffman rises with Netflix special, TV roles and Emmy nomination

5 articles · Updated · The Guardian · May 11

The 36-year-old New Yorker appears in Steve Carell's campus comedy Rooster and season five of Hacks, where her second season as Randi followed last year's Emmy nomination.
Wake Up, directed by John Mulaney, caps a breakout year as Hoffman says the role, based partly on her background, transformed her life in Los Angeles with wife Gabby Windey.
The comedian, who grew up poor in a large Hasidic family and later worked at KPMG, says she now supports relatives, has added 10 tour dates and is developing her own TV show.

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How does Robby Hoffman reconcile her strict Hassidic roots with her public queer identity and controversial career?