Filmmaker Jeff Baena – best known for directing films like ‘Life After Beth’ and ‘The Little Hours’, and the husband of Aubrey Plazahas passed away… TMZ has learned.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ that police and firefighters responded to a Los Angeles-area home around 10:30 a.m. Friday to investigate the death … after a deputy discovered him dead.
Baena was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say he committed suicide.
After earning his film degree from New York University, Jeff moved to LA to launch his film career, initially taking low-level jobs with famous directors like Robert Zemeckis And David O. Russell.
It was his work with Russell that put him on the map… the two collaborated on four screenplays – including ‘I Heart Huckabees’, starring Dustin Hofman And Lily Tomlin.
Around this time, Baena began to focus on directing his own films, such as his first feature, the 2014 horror-comedy “Life After Beth,” starring John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon And Aubrey Plaza.
Baena also directed the 2016 film ‘Joshy’, 2017’s ‘The Little Hours’, and 2020’s ‘Horse Girl’.
In 2021, Aubrey revealed that she and Jeff had tied the knot in an Instagram post after about a decade of dating – as you know, her career started when she starred in the show ‘Parks and Rec’ in 2009… then appeared in projects as ‘Emily The Criminal’ and ‘The White Lotus’.
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We’ve reached out to Aubrey’s reps…so far no word back.
Baena was 47.
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