The announcement marks a presumably brighter time for Plaza, whose husband, writer-director Jeff Baena, died by suicide in January 2025, at age 47. Breaking her silence on the tragedy in an August 2025 appearance on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, Plaza called her grief a "daily struggle."
Keep reading to learn more about Plaza’s new chapter with Abbott, as well as her recent pregnancy.
It’s unclear exactly when their relationship turned romantic, but Plaza, 41, and Abbott, 40, go back several years professionally. The two co-starred in the 2020 movie Black Bear and followed that collaboration with the 2023-2024 off‑Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
When did Aubrey Plaza lose her husband?
Baena was best known for directing films such as Life After Beth (2014), Joshy (2016), The Little Hours (2017), Horse Girl (2020) and Spin Me Round (2022). He also co-wrote 2004’s I Heart Huckabees, which was nominated for Best Feature at the Gotham Awards that year. Per TMZ, his body was discovered at his L.A.-area home on Friday, Jan. 3, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
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The couple, who kept their relationship relatively private, was together from 2011 and married sometime in 2021.
How did Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott meet?
The two met while filming the psychological drama Black Bear. The movie, which was shot in late summer 2019 and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020, follows a filmmaker (Plaza) who retreats to a remote lake house with a couple played by Abbott and Sarah Gadon. As the trio spends time together, their interactions turn dark and tense, blurring the lines between reality and the filmmaker’s artistic vision.
“We were shooting nights for three weeks straight, so we were all losing our f-cking minds,” Plaza told IndieWire. “We were shooting on a location that was essentially off the grid. We had no cell service, very bad internet. We had power outages almost every hour on the hour … It was just totally insane and a really, really hard shoot physically and emotionally, but we survived.”
What have Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott starred in together?
The intense two‑character play, which marked Plaza’s professional stage debut, ran from Oct. 30, 2023, through early January 2024.
Abbott agreed. “We’re both unafraid to be ugly and weird and strange,” he told the outlet.
When is Aubrey Plaza due to have her baby?
The White Lotusactress is expected to deliver in the fall of 2026.
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