Aubrey Plaza’s husband, director Jeff Baena, 47, dies in suicide

He was the husband of Aubrey Plaza, who starred in his films The Little Hours, a 2017 black comedy set in a 14th-century convent, and Life After Beth. Jeff was born and raised in Miami. He later attended film school at New York University and moved to Los Angeles shortly after graduating to begin his career in entertainment.

The son of an attorney and teacher, Jeff told podcaster, Marc Maron, in a 2017 interview that his interest in cinema was sparked after watching Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 as a child. “I was always drawn to left-of-centre things,” he told Jim Alexander two years ago in an interview for the Reel Talker YouTube channel.

In the same interview, he said that it was “amazing” to work with Aubrey, who appeared in four of his five films. “The opportunities to create together, to do something creative where we're both fulfilled, it's like how rare is that? She's down and she's so talented, so I'm really lucky," he had said.