Aubrey Plaza’s Husband, Jeff Baena, Dies at 47

On Friday, Aubrey Plaza’s husband, filmmaker Jeff Baena, was found dead in a Los Angeles–area home. Law enforcement has ruled his death a suicide.

Baena and Plaza, who got married in 2021 after dating for ten years, were frequent collaborators — she often appeared in the movies he directed, including Life After Beth, The Little Hours, and Spin Me Round.

Friends and collaborators of Plaza and Baena’s have posted tributes to the late director, including Molly Shannon and Alison Brie. Actor Adam Pally wrote, “He was a talented director with impeccable taste and vision, he was a connector of people, a fosterer of possibility, the guy who knows where the best restaurant was no matter where you were. An overly gracious host with an almost disturbing open door policy, a film encyclopedia, and most important to me a friend.”

Plaza did not appear at the Golden Globes on Sunday, where she had been scheduled to present, and The Brutalist’s director, Brady Corbet, acknowledged the couple during his acceptance speech, saying that “tonight my heart is with Aubrey Plaza and Jeff’s family.”

In the U.S., the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline can be reached at 988 (call or text) or 988lifeline.org (chat).