Jeff Baena and wife Aubrey Plaza were spouses and creative partners for a decade before his life tragically ended on January 3, 2025. The filmmaker, whose credits include Plaza’s Life After Beth and I Heart Huckabees , was just 47 years old when he died by suicide.

On January 6, 2025, Plaza released a statement to People , calling her late husband’s death an “unimaginable tragedy.”

Baena and Plaza had one of Hollywood’s longest and most private romances, which eventually led to their secret wedding. In a December 2021 interview on The Drew Barrymore Show , she shared that they broke tradition by wearing tie-dye pajamas—made by Baena—for their wedding.

Here’s what you should know about the relationship between The White Lotus actress and her late husband.

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