Aubrey Plaza and her partner Christopher Abbott are expecting their first child, it has been announced, which came as a ‘beautiful surprise’ for the White Lotus starDaniel Bird Assistant Celebrity and Entertainment Editor
06:05, 08 Apr 2026Updated 10:08, 08 Apr 2026
Aubrey Plaza is pregnant with her first child(Image: Getty Images for The Gotham Film & Media Institute)
Aubrey Plaza and her partner are expecting their first child together. The happy news for Aubrey and her partner, Christopher Abbott, comes over a year after the death of her late husband, Jeff Baena.
A source has confirmed that Aubrey and Christopher’s firstborn is due in the fall. However, the gender of their child is yet to be disclosed. The happy news comes just over a year after Aubrey suffered utter heartbreak following the death of her husband, Jeff.
Aubrey and Christopher first worked together in 2019 on the psychological drama Black Bear. A source said the news of their pregnancy came as a “beautiful surprise” for the couple.
Aubrey and Christopher’s child is due in the fall(Image: Getty Images for Audible)
The pair first worked together in 2019(Image: Getty Images Courtesy of Rand Luxury)
“It was a beautiful surprise after an emotional year,” a source told People magazine. They added: “They feel very blessed.” Aubrey and Christopher went on to work together again three years ago, in the Off-Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, which ran through til January 2024.
While their relationship has been relatively low-key, the couple were spotted together on Valentine’s Day this year, attending Khaite’s Fall/Winter 2026 New York Fashion Week show, sitting alongside Gemma Chan and Elizabeth Debicki.
They were also seen looking cosy at the Chatham Berry Farm, around two and a half hours outside of New York, in June of last year. Just weeks after she and Christopher were spotted, Aubrey opened up about the death of her late husband, Jeff.
The filmmaker died in January 2025 at the age of 47, with the Los Angeles County medical examiner concluding he took his own life. The director and screenwriter was found at a home close to the Fern Dell Nature Trail near the Hollywood Hills, with the cause of his death determined as hanging.
Aubrey released a statement with Jeff’s family when his death was confirmed in January, but her admission about grief was the first time she spoke publicly about losing Jeff.
Speaking on her Parks and Recreation co-star Amy Poehler’s podcast, Aubrey said: “Right in this very, very present moment, I feel happy to be with you. Overall, I’m here, and I’m functioning. I feel really grateful to be moving through the world. I think I’m ok, but it’s like a daily struggle, obviously.”
She added on the podcast: “This is a really dumb analogy, and it was kind of a joke at a certain point, but I actually mean it. Did you see that movie The Gorge? … In the movie, there’s a cliff on one side and there’s a cliff on the other side, then there’s a gorge in between and it’s filled with all these monster people that are trying to get them.
“I swear, when I watched it, I was like that feels like what my grief is like … or what grief could be like. At all times, there’s like a giant ocean of awfulness that’s right there, and I can see it. Sometimes I just want to dive into it, and just like be in it. Then sometimes I just look at it, and sometimes I try to get away from it. But, it’s always there.”
Aubrey and Jeff has seperated four months before he tragically died.
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