Aubrey Plaza is expecting her first child with partner Christopher Abbott. News of the Parks and Recreation star’s pregnancy doubled as confirmation that she and Abbott, best known for his role on the HBO series Girls, are in a relationship.
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."
“Right in this very very present moment, I feel happy to be with you,” she said. “Overall, I’m here and I’m functioning.”
Keep reading to learn more about Plaza’s new chapter with Abbott, as well as her recent pregnancy.
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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?
Plaza’s estranged husband died by suicide on Jan. 3, 2025.
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.
“This is an unimaginable tragedy,” Plaza’s rep said in a statement on behalf of the actress and her family. “We are deeply grateful to everyone who has offered support. Please respect our privacy during this time.”
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As revealed in the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s report, the couple separated in September 2024. A month later, the report stated, Baena made “concerning remarks” to Plaza that "prompted her to call a friend to perform a welfare check on her husband.”
The couple, who kept their relationship relatively private, was together from 2011 and married sometime in 2021.
“I think that one of the great things about our careers is that we are forced to be independent, take little breaks, go off and do our things and come back,” Plaza told People in 2019. “So it’s kind of fun. Nothing is ever the same. You don’t want to spend too much time apart. But I think that there’s a way that it can work and there’s a balance in that.”
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.
The couple starred in the 2020 movie Black Bear, which was filmed in a secluded location in the Adirondack Mountains in Long Lake, New York.
“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?
In addition to starring in the movie Black Bear, the couple collaborated on the 2023-2024 off‑Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, playing strangers who become lovers after meeting at a dive bar in the Bronx.
The intense two‑character play, which marked Plaza’s professional stage debut, ran from Oct. 30, 2023, through early January 2024.
Praising her co-star in an interview with the New York Times, Plaza said, “He cares but he also doesn’t care; it’s the best recipe for me for a scene partner. … I like to just throw things out the window also and laugh and mess around and not take it so seriously. It’s a hard combo to come by.”
Abbott agreed. “We’re both unafraid to be ugly and weird and strange,” he told the outlet.
The father of Plaza’s unborn child is Christopher Abbott, whose breakout role was as Marnie’s sensitive, troubled boyfriend Charlie on Girls. He’s also starred in Martha Marcy May Marlene, It Comes At Night and more.
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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