Aubrey Plaza Was Scheduled to Present at the 2025 Golden Globes

UPDATE — 12/5/24 at 11 p.m. ET:

Scheduled presenter Aubrey Plaza did not attend the 2025 Golden Globes.

Plaza was absent following the death of her husband, Jeff Baena. While she was not present at the Sunday awards show, love was sent her way when The Brutalist director Brady Corbet mentioned the couple

in his acceptance speech.

Original story:

Aubrey Plaza is scheduled to be a presenter at the 2025 Golden Globes on Sunday, January 5.

Plaza, 40, was announced as one of over 40 presenters for the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards on Thursday, January 2. The show will air live from Los Angeles’ Beverly Hilton Hotel.

One day after Plaza was announced as a presenter, her husband Jeff Baena was found dead in their Los Angeles residence on Friday, January 3. Us Weekly later confirmed the indie screenwriter died by suicide. He was 47.

At the time of writing, Plaza is still listed as a presenter for the Golden Globes. Us reached out to Plaza’s reps for comment regarding her attendance but did not hear back.

Plaza has not yet publicly addressed her husband’s passing. The pair, who kept their relationship mostly private, began dating in 2011 and were together for nearly a decade before tying the knot in 2020.

“A lot of things happened during COVID for me. Yes, we got married. Big deal,” Plaza said of her and Baena’s nuptials during a December 2021 appearance on the Ellen Degeneres Show. “We got a little bored one night. We got married and I’ll tell you how: Onehourmarriage.com. That’s real, look it up.”

The Agatha All Along alum added, “I created a very quick love altar in our yard. Facts of our love, little stones, smoke, fire. Things of that nature. Then the man from Alhambra showed up in a Hawaiian shirt with a briefcase [to perform the ceremony]. … I can’t remember a lot of it, it was fuzzy. But I’m pretty sure it’s legal.”

While Baena and Plaza each had their own solo careers, they had several opportunities to work together on numerous projects such as Life After Beth, The Little Hours and Spin Me Round.

“My first movie was a big learning experience on all fronts, and so working with her was a benefit because we have a shorthand and a close relationship,” Baena said of his wife in an August 2022 interview with Newsweek.

“As I’ve made more and more stuff, I’ve come to appreciate everything that she brings,” the late filmmaker continued. “She’s insanely talented and so smart and obviously really good at producing. And she’s writing. There are very few people who can wear as many hats as her, as elegantly as she does.”

At the time, Baena further gushed over his wife, saying “everything she does is amazing,” adding, “Generally people point her out in whatever project she’s in as being the best part.”

He concluded, “She’s, like, insanely talented and I’m very lucky to have her in my life.”

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