Molly Shannon pays tribute to Aubrey Plaza’s…
Molly Shannon is mourning the death of Aubrey Plaza’s husband, Jeff Baena.
The “SNL” alum, 60, shared an emotional Instagram tribute to the late director, who died by suicide at age 47 on Jan. 3.
Shannon’s Jan. 4 post included on and off-set photographs from 4 of the flicks that they labored on collectively.
Jeff Baena and Molly Shannon. theofficialsuperstar/Instagram
Molly Shannon and Jeff Baena. theofficialsuperstar/Instagram
Plaza, 40, appeared in some of the photographs, as properly.
Shannon captioned her post with a damaged coronary heart emoji.
A gaggle photograph from Molly Shannon’s tribute to Jeff Baena. theofficialsuperstar/Instagram
Of the 5 films that Baena directed, Shannon starred in 4 of them: 2014’s “Life After Beth,” 2017’s “The Little Hours,” 2020’s “Horse Girl” and 2022’s “Spin Me Round.”
Plaza was in “Life After Beth” and “The Little Hours” with Shannon.
Aubrey Plaza and Molly Shannon. theofficialsuperstar/Instagram
Alison Brie, who additionally starred in some of Baena’s tasks and co-wrote “Horse Girl and “Spin Me Round” with him, appeared in a few of the photographs from Shannon’s tribute. She honored Baena on her Instagram Story with a number of pics of the pair and a damaged coronary heart emoji.
Alison Brie, Jeff Baena and Molly Shannon. theofficialsuperstar/Instagram
Brie, 42, included a hyperlink to Adam Pally’s tribute post too. Pally, 42, collaborated with Baena on three of his movies.
“Jeff Baena was a sweet, Jewish boy from Miami,” Pally wrote on his Instagram Jan. 5. “He was a collaborator, a mentor, the scrappiest basketball player with the ugliest jump shot you ever saw.”
Baena was discovered lifeless by an assistant at his home within the Los Angeles space on Jan. 3.
Jeff Baena at Apple Store Soho in NYC in 2014. Getty Images
The director was pronounced lifeless on the scene with law enforcement.
Baena was honored at Sunday’s 2025 Golden Globes in a speech by director Brady Corbet as he was accepting his award for “The Brutalist.”
At the tip of his speech, Corbet stated, “Tonight my heart is with Aubrey Plaza and Jeff’s family.”
Jeff Baena and Aubrey Plaza at Sundance NEXT FEST in 2014. Mark Davis/Getty Images
Baena and Plaza started relationship in 2011 and had been married in 2021.
The “Agatha All Along” actress has but to make a public assertion about her husband’s death.
Jeff Baena and Aubrey Plaza. Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP
During an look on “The Drew Barrymore Show” the identical 12 months as their wedding ceremony, Plaza touched on balancing her personal {and professional} relationship with Baena.
“It’s so great, it’s so complicated,” Plaza instructed Barrymore about working together with her husband. “It’s, like, extreme highs and extreme, you know, complications. It’s a really hard thing to navigate, but we’ve been together for 11 years. We just muscle our way through it.”
If you or somebody you realize is affected by any of the problems raised on this story, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or textual content Crisis Text Line at 741741.
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