---
name: "Jeff Baena"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jeff-baena"
fi1m_id: "jeff-baena"
imdb_id: "nm1337885"
tmdb_id: 17884
wikidata_id: "Q26897001"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "29 June 1977"
died: "3 January 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-13T21:35:03.610871+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jeff Baena

## Identity

Jeff Baena

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jeff-baena
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jeff-baena
- **IMDb ID:** nm1337885
- **TMDB ID:** 17884
- **Wikidata ID:** Q26897001
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Baena, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26897001, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1337885/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17884

Producer and director. Born 29 June 1977 in Miami, Florida, USA. Died 3 January 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 29 June 1977, Miami, Florida, USA
- **Died:** 3 January 2025
- **Also known as:** Jeffrey Lance Baena, Jeff Lance Baena, Jeffrey Baena
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Baena, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26897001, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1337885/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17884

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Horse Girl*](https://film.one/film/horse-girl.md) (60)

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## Biography

Jeff Baena was an American screenwriter and film director. He was born in Miami, Florida, on 29 June 1977 and died in Los Angeles on 3 January 2025.

After studying at New York University, Baena worked as a production assistant for Robert Zemeckis and later as an assistant editor for David O. Russell. The pair collaborated on the screenplay for *I Heart Huckabees* (2004). Baena made his directorial debut with *Life After Beth* (2014), which he also wrote. His other films as director and writer include *Joshy* (2016), *The Little Hours* (2017), *Horse Girl* (2020) and *Spin Me Round* (2022). He frequently collaborated with Alison Brie and Aubrey Plaza, whom he married in 2021.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Horse Girl* (2020), Fi1m 60, Director, Writer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/horse-girl.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Pavements* (2025), Thanks
- *Spin Me Round* (2022), Writer, Director, Producer
- *Emily the Criminal* (2022), Thanks
- *Cinema Toast* (2021), series, Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Creator
- *Horse Girl* (2020), Director, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/horse-girl.md)
- *Madeline's Madeline* (2018), Thanks
- *Duck Butter* (2018), Thanks
- *The Little Hours* (2017), Director, Screenplay
- *Joshy* (2016), Writer, Director
- *Digging for Fire* (2015), as BB Gun Friend
- *Life After Beth* (2014), Director, Writer
- *The End of Love* (2013), as Jeff Baena
- *I ♥ Huckabees* (2004), Writer

## Gallery

- ![Jeff Baena](https://film.one/media/person/6881599/gallery-3c9c82bc5c11.jpg) Jeff Baena — Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Jeff_Baena.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- !["Life After Beth" at Sundance 2014](https://film.one/media/person/6881599/gallery-63fb01851052.jpg) "Life After Beth" at Sundance 2014 — PunkToad from oakland, us, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Jeff_Baena_%2812097228364%29.jpg/1280px-Jeff_Baena_%2812097228364%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jeff Baena & Aubrey Plaza attending a showing of The Little Hours at SIFF Cinema Uptown during the Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, Washington,](https://film.one/media/person/6881599/gallery-efe7b4dbb373.jpg) Jeff Baena & Aubrey Plaza attending a showing of The Little Hours at SIFF Cinema Uptown during the Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, Washington, — Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Jeff_Baena_%26_Aubrey_Plaza_01.jpg/1280px-Jeff_Baena_%26_Aubrey_Plaza_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jeff Baena](https://film.one/media/person/6881599/gallery-2eb9ac5b5b7d.jpg) Jeff Baena — Image via TMDB
- ![Jeff Baena](https://film.one/media/person/6881599/gallery-a1138815b36e.jpg) Jeff Baena — Image via TMDB
- ![Jeff Baena](https://film.one/media/person/6881599/gallery-35a97bb0ab85.jpg) Jeff Baena — Image via TMDB
- ![Jeff Baena](https://film.one/media/person/6881599/gallery-d5d5333fc802.jpg) Jeff Baena — Image via TMDB
- ![Jeff Baena](https://film.one/media/person/6881599/gallery-d92756999875.jpg) Jeff Baena — Image via TMDB
- ![Jeff Baena](https://film.one/media/person/6881599/gallery-3691f9bd64b6.jpg) Jeff Baena — Image via TMDB

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