Jeff Baena, Filmmaker and Aubrey Plaza’s Husband, Dead at 47

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Jeff Baena, comedy filmmaker and husband of actress Aubrey Plaza, died at the age of 47, confirms Plaza’s reps to Vulture. Baena’s death was an apparent suicide on Friday, January 3, per confirmation from law enforcement to People and TMZ. He began his film career working with directors like Robert Zemeckis and David O. Russell before eventually co-writing the film I Heart Huckabees with the latter. As he branched out and started defining himself as his own filmmaker...