{"id":279984,"date":"2025-04-11T23:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/indie-filmmaker-jeff-baena-aubrey-plazas-husband-found-dead-at-los-angeles-home\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T23:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T23:25:11","slug":"indie-filmmaker-jeff-baena-aubrey-plazas-husband-found-dead-at-los-angeles-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/indie-filmmaker-jeff-baena-aubrey-plazas-husband-found-dead-at-los-angeles-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Indie filmmaker Jeff Baena, Aubrey Plaza\u2019s husband, found dead at Los Angeles home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Writer-director Jeff Baena, whose darkly comedic independent films included \u201cThe Little Hours\u201d and who was married to his frequent creative collaborator Aubrey Plaza, has died. He was 47.<\/p>\n

Baena was found dead Friday morning at a Los Angeles home, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office. The circumstances of his death remained unclear Saturday, and the office said it was investigating and a full report would not be available until the case is closed.<\/p>\n

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Baena co-wrote David O. Russell\u2019s 2004 film \u201cI Heart Huckabees\u201d and wrote and directed five of his own films, four of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n

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He had been dating Plaza for three years before she starred in his 2014 directorial debut, the zombie comedy \u201cLife After Beth.\u201d His next film, 2016\u2019s \u201cJoshy,\u201d featured Thomas Middleditch as a man who gets together with friends months after his fiancee commits suicide.<\/p>\n

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The son of an attorney and teacher, Baena grew up in Miami and attended film school at New York University. He told podcaster Marc Maron in a 2017 interview that his interest in cinema was sparked after watching Stanley Kubrick\u2019s \u201cA Clockwork Orange\u201d and Federico Fellini\u2019s \u201c8 1\/2\u201d as a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was always drawn to left-of-center things,\u201d he told Jim Alexander two years ago in an interview for the Reel Talker YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

Baena said in the same interview that it was \u201camazing\u201d to work with Plaza, who appeared in four of his five films. The 40-year-old actor and producer rose to fame playing April Ludgate on the television series \u201cParks and Recreation\u201d and was nominated for an Emmy for her role on \u201cThe White Lotus.\u201d The couple married in 2021.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe opportunities to create together, to do something creative where we\u2019re both fulfilled, it\u2019s like how rare is that? She\u2019s down and she\u2019s so talented, so I\u2019m really lucky,\u201d Baena said.<\/p>\n

A representative for Plaza said that in addition to Plaza, Baena is survived by his mother, Barbara Stern, stepfather Roger Stern, father Scott Baena, stepmother Michele Baena, brother Brad Baena and stepsiblings Bianca Gabay and Jed Fluxman.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n