Jeff Baena, Author-Director and Aubrey Plaza’s Husband, Lifeless at 47

Jeff Baena, the writer-director of indie motion pictures like Lifestyles After Beth and Horse Woman and husband of actress Aubrey Plaza, has died on the age of 47.

TMZ first reported that police replied to a loss of life investigation at a Los Angeles house on Friday morning, with Baena pronounced lifeless on the scene. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Place of work showed Baena’s loss of life to Selection; no explanation for loss of life used to be supplied.

Baena began within the movie business to an assistant to administrators like Robert Zemeckis and David O. Russell, with Baena co-writing the screenplay for 2004’s I Middle Huckabees with the latter.

In 2014, Baena made his directorial debut with the zombie comedy Lifestyles After Beth, which starred his then-girlfriend Plaza; in 2021, the actress published that she and Baena had married after a decade of courting.

Baena’s different motion pictures come with 2016’s Joshy and 3 films he made in collaboration with actress Alison Brie: 2017’s The Little Hours (which additionally co-starred Plaza), 2020’s Horse Woman, and his most up-to-date characteristic, 2022’s Spin Me Spherical.

“Baena, who co-wrote the script with Brie, has all the time been any individual who throws a bit of of a curve in his pitches — that is the fellow who penned I Middle Huckabees, and has directed each a zombie love tale (Lifestyles After Beth) and a left-field adaptation of Boccaccio’s The Decameron (The Little Hours),” Rolling Stone wrote in its overview for Horse Woman. “However the longer Horse Woman allows you to spend inside of this younger lady’s dissociative mind-set, the extra you’re feeling your individual seize at the narrative start to fracture.”