Jeff Baena, film director and husband of actress Aubrey Plaza, has died at the age of 47, TMZ reports.

Law enforcement responds to a request for a death investigation after an assistant found the “Life After Beth” director dead in Los Angeles around 10:30 a.m. Friday, TMZ reported. Baena was pronounced dead at the scene. Sources told TMZ that he died by suicide.

After earning a film degree from New York University, Baena moved to Los Angeles to begin his career. There he worked with directors such as David O. Russell and Robert Zemeckis, the newspaper reported. Baena directed several of his own films, including the 2014 horror comedy “Life After Beth,” starring Molly Shannon, John C. Reilly and Aubrey Plaza, whom he later married.

The director also worked on films such as “Horse Girl” in 2020, “Spin Me Round” in 2022, and “The Little Hours” in 2017, starring his future wife. (Related: Creator of beloved children’s series ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ dies at 81).

Plaza, known for guest appearances on Parks and Rec, Agatha All Along, The White Lotus and Criminal Minds, announced his marriage to Baena in 2021. Instagram post. The two met at a Balderdash match in 2011. According to To GQ.

In a casual wedding announcement on May 7, 2021, she wrote, “So proud of my darling husband @jeffbaena for taking us to Italy and dreaming up another movie that will cause even more trouble.” I wrote.

The two got married during the pandemic, Plaza said on Drew Barrymore’s talk show.

“It’s really hard to get over, but we’ve been together for 11 years,” Plaza said of working with her husband.

“The marriage thing was a joke that went too far,” Plaza joked. “We got married on a whim. We literally decided around 5 p.m. and got married at 8:30.”

The couple reportedly wore tie-dye pajamas during the wedding. Plaza said Baena started making tie-dye clothes during the pandemic.