Jeff Baena, the impartial filmmaker who collaborated along with his spouse, Aubrey Plaza, on the tasks The Little Hours and Life After Beth, has died at age 47.

A consultant for Baena and the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Workplace confirmed the information to Leisure Weekly on Saturday. A reason for demise was not given.

Born in Miami in 1977, Baena studied movie at New York College and commenced his Hollywood profession as a manufacturing assistant on Robert Zemeckis' 2000 motion pictures, Cast Away and What Lies Beneath. He made his screenwriting debut with 2004's I Coronary heart Huckabees, a collaboration with director David O. Russell that starred Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Jude Legislation, Jason Schwartzman, Mark Wahlberg, and Naomi Watts.

Baena started relationship Plaza in 2011, and the couple performed variations of themselves in Mark Webber's 2012 movie, The Finish of Love, alongside actors like Alia Shawkat, Michael Cera, and Amanda Seyfried. He made his directorial debut with 2014's Life After Beth, a comedy he wrote that adopted a younger man (Dane DeHaan) who should contend along with his late girlfriend (Plaza) returning to his life as a zombie. The film additionally starred John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Anna Kendrick, Matthew Grey Gubler, Paul Reiser, and Adam Pally.

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After enjoying a minor position in Joe Swanberg's Digging for Fireplace reverse Jake Johnson in 2015, Baena launched 2016's Joshy, a darkish comedy that centered on a protagonist (Thomas Middleditch) whose associates (performed by Pally, Alex Ross Perry, and Nick Kroll) try to cheer him up following the demise of his fiancée (Alison Brie). Plaza, Lauren Graham, Jenny Slate, Reiser, Johnson, and Swanberg appeared in supporting roles.

The filmmaker launched his third directorial function, The Little Hours, in 2017. The medieval comedy starred a variety of Baena's earlier collaborators, together with Plaza, Brie, Reilly, Shannon, Reiser, and Pally, in addition to Dave Franco, Kate Micucci, and Fred Armisen.

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In 2020, Baena wrote, directed, and produced Horse Woman, an offbeat psychological drama starring Brie as an odd introvert who experiences a sequence of inexplicable phenomena. Reiser, Shannon, and Gubler had been once more a part of the supporting solid, together with Debby Ryan, Jay Duplass, and John Ortiz.

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Baena's subsequent venture was 2021's Cinema Toast, an experimental dramedy sequence he created for Showtime that featured directorial work from Plaza, Perry, Duplass, and Baena and appearances from Christina Ricci, Colman Domingo, Chloe Fineman, Da'Vine Pleasure Randolph, Gillian Jacobs, Dan Stevens, Christopher Meloni, Alessandro Nivola, and Griffin Newman, in addition to earlier collaborators like Plaza, Brie, Armisen, Duplass, Shawkat, Micucci, and Offerman.

The filmmaker's remaining venture was 2022's Spin Me Spherical, a darkish comedy he wrote with Brie, who additionally starred within the movie. The film reunited Baena with Plaza, Shannon, Ryan, Armisen, and Nivola.

Baena is survived by Plaza; his mom, Barbara Stern; his stepfather, Roger Stern; his father, Scott Baena; his stepmother, Michele Baena; his brother, Brad Baena; his stepsister, Gabay Fluxman; and his stepbrother, Jed Fluxman.

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