Aubrey Plaza misses Golden Globes following death of husband, director Jeff Baena

Aubrey Plaza won't be presenting at the 2025 Golden Globes as planned, following the death of her husband, the independent film director Jeff Baena.

Baena's death was confirmed to Entertainment Weekly by a representative for the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office on Saturday, and was ruled a suicide by hanging according to medical examiner records viewed by EW.

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Plaza was announced as one of the official presenters at Sunday's ceremony on Jan. 2, alongside stars like Andrew Garfield, Viola Davis, Sharon Stone, Ke Huy Quan, and Demi Moore.

While accepting the award for Best Director - Motion Picture, The Brutalist's Brady Corbet finished his speech by saying, "My heart is with Aubrey Plaza and the family of Jeff Baena."

Reps for Plaza did not respond to EW's request for comment.

Plaza and Baena began dating in 2011, playing versions of themselves the year after in Mark Webber's The End of Love. She went on to star in Baena's 2014 directorial debut, the zombie romcom Life After Beth, as well as 2017's zany Decameron adaptation The Little Hours, and 2022's off-kilter romcom Spin Me Round, all of which he wrote and directed.

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Plaza had a big year, appearing in the films My Old Ass and Megalopolis and the series Monsters at Work and Agatha All Along. The actress wasn't nominated for any of her performances, but her Agatha costar Kathryn Hahn was nominated in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy category.

She will appear next in Peter Atencio's live-action/animated road comedy Animal Friends alongside Ryan Reynolds, Jason Momoa, and Addison Rae, and lend her voice to the animated family comedy The Ark and the Aardvark.

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