Brutal director supports Aubrey Plaza after Jeff Baena's death

Aubrey Plaza Received support in 2025 Golden Globe After her husband Jeff BrothersShocking death.

Brutal exit Brady Corbett Plaza, 40, and Baena mentioned it at the end of his acceptance speech on Sunday, Jan. 5, afterward Win the prize For best director. “My heart goes out to Aubrey Plaza and Jeff’s family,” he said.

Plaza Didn't show up at an awards ceremony before a speech that came two days after Baena's He died by suicide at the age of 47. She was the actress Scheduled to be a presenter before Us Weekly Baena's death was confirmed at his Los Angeles residence on Friday, January 3.

Brothers He was an independent film director Known for projects like I love Huckabees, Life After Beth, The Small Hours, Horse Girl and Spin me round. He often collaborated with Plaza, Who he started dating in 2011 She married nearly a decade later.

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“My first film was a big learning experience on all fronts, so working with her was rewarding because we had a brief, close relationship,” Baena said of Plaza in an August 2022 interview. Newsweek. “As I made more and more things, I came to appreciate all that they had to offer.”

Baena praised his wife's commitment to her work, adding: “She's insanely talented and extremely smart and obviously really good at producing. And she writes. There are very few people who can wear as many hats as she does, with as much elegance as her.”

The screenwriter noted that Plaza “Amazing” at “everything you do.”

“Generally speaking, people refer to her on any project she works on as the best part,” he continued at the time. “She is insanely talented and I am so lucky to have her in my life.”

While Plaza has remained largely tight-lipped about her marriage, she previously was She shared details about her and Baena Weddings.

“A lot of things happened for me during the coronavirus. Yes, we got married. Big deal,” she shared during a December 2021 appearance on TV. The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “We were a little bored one night. We got married and I'll tell you how: Onehourmarriage.com. It's real, look it up.”

Plaza added: “I created a very quick love altar in our yard. The truths of our love, the little stones, the smoke, the fire. Things like that. And then the guy from the Alhambra showed up in a Hawaiian shirt with a bag (to perform the ceremony). … I can't “I remember a lot of it, it was vague but I'm sure it's legal.”