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Aubrey Plaza Calls Husband Jeff Baena’s Death an ‘Unimaginable Tragedy’: ‘Deeply Grateful to Everyone Who Has Offered Support’

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Andrés Buenahora
Aubrey Plaza Calls Husband Jeff Baena’s
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Aubrey Plaza has shared a statement after the death of her husband Jeff Baena, who was found dead in a Los Angeles residence on Jan. 3. He was 47. The L.A. County Coroner’s Office determined the cause of death to be suicide.

“This is an unimaginable tragedy. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has offered support,” Plaza and the Baena and Stern family shared Monday. “Please respect our privacy during this time.”

Indie filmmaker Baena wrote the script for the 2004 film “I Heart Huckabees” and directed projects such as “The Little Hours” and “Life After Beth,” which both starred Plaza. The pair also worked together on “Spin Me Round” and the series “Cinema Toast,” which marked Plaza’s directorial debut. Although they kept their relationship relatively private, Plaza and Baena began dating in 2011 and were married in May 2021.

Plaza had previously shared that being in the same industry allowed her and Baena to empathize and understand each other on a deep level.
“Obviously, you are able to support each other and really understand kind of the journey that we’re both on. But, you know, working with your partner can always be challenging. There’s a lot of things we do separately and I think that it’s all about balance,” she told People magazine in a 2019 interview. “One of the great things about our careers is that we are forced to be independent, take little breaks, go off and do our things and come back. So it’s kind of fun. Nothing is ever the same. You don’t want to spend too much time apart. But I think that there’s a way that it can work and there’s a balance in that.”

From Variety US

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