brought a surprise dose of star power on the second-to-last episode of The Last Show with on Wednesday night.
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Aubrey Plaza Shines at Colberts Final Shows
Aubrey Plaza brought a surprise dose of star power on the second-to-last episode of The Last Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night.The 41-year-old actres...
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The 41-year-old actress looked absolutely stunning as she made a grand entrance while showing off her heavily pregnant figure.
Plaza poked fun at her prominent baby bump with her characteristic deadpan humor after she revealed last month that she's .
The lovebirds were spotted together on Tuesday as they watched the New York Knicks take on the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game One of the conference finals in .
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She was helping to send off Colbert after CBS announced that it would be canceling The Late Show amid repeated criticism over Colbert's jokes from President and its parent company Paramount's attempt to ink a merger deal with Skydance Media.
Plaza was one of the celebrity guests in an episode packed with them, including , James Taylor, , Billy Crystal, , , Amy Sedaris and more.
Aubrey Plaza brought a surprise dose of star power on the second-to-last episode of The Last Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night. The 41-year-old actress looked absolutely stunning as she made a grand entrance while showing off her heavily pregnant figure
Plaza poked fun at her prominent baby bump with her characteristic deadpan humor after she revealed last month that she's expecting her first child with Girls star Christopher Abbott
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Each of the celebrity guests got to take a turn behind Colbert's desk to ask him one question, while he moved over to the first chair to answer.
But to avoid getting too somber for the 62-year-old late-night host's penultimate episode, Plaza and the rest of the stars asked him hilariously inconsequential questions.
The White Lotus star first worked with her partner Christopher Abbott, 40, in 2019 on the indie psychological drama Black Bear
In Black Bear the pair played dual roles as actors and directors trying to shoot a film in an eerie, isolated lake house
The low-budget thriller premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020 to critical acclaim, with several reviewers singling it out as one of Plaza's best performances to date.
She worked again with Abbott in 2023 – this time on stage – in the Off Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s play Danny And The Deep Blue Sea, which ran until January 2024.
Plaza and her new partner were last seen together before the pregnancy news broke on February 14, when they attended Khaite's Fall/Winter 2026 show as part of New York Fashion Week.
The two were pictured sitting side-by-side in the front row alongside stars including Elizabeth Debicki and Gemma Chan.
Prior to revealing her pregnancy, the Parks And Recreation star had managed to keep her relationship with Abbott under the radar.
According to DeuxMoi, a source had spotted Plaza and Abbot looking affectionate at Chatham Berry Farm in upstate New York last June, some five months after the death of Plaza's estranged husband.
They claimed that she was spotted speaking to a woman whom they later learned was Abbott's older sister, Christina Abbot, before she posted about a performance at the farm on Instagram.
Plaza's pregnancy follows a tragic 2025, in which her estranged husband, Jeff Baena, .
Abbott is best known for playing the on-off boyfriend of Allison Williams's character Marnie on Lena Dunham's influential HBO comedy Girls (pictured)
Plaza's pregnancy follows a tragic 2025, in which her estranged husband, Jeff Baena, died by suicide on January 3; they are pictured together in 2017 in Culvert City, Calif.
It was subsequently revealed that the couple had separated four months before his untimely death.
An obtained by the Daily Mail revealed that the filmmaker and actress had separated in September 2024. She had been living in New York at the time his body was discovered.
The report detailed how the Life After Beth director had been 'experiencing marital difficulties' in his final months, and how he had been in therapy.
The actress made her first public appearance since Baena's death at the SNL 50 special in February 2025. She paid tribute to him by wearing a tie-dye shirt, as they wore matching tie-dye pajamas at their low-key wedding
Plaza shot to stardom virtually overnight thanks to her role as April Ludgate in Parks and Recreation. She starred alongside Chris Pratt, right, Retta, left, and Aziz Ansari
Following his death, Plaza made her first public appearance when she introduced musical guests Miley Cyrus and Brittany Howard on Saturday Night Live's 50th anniversary special in February 2025.
She made a subtle but moving tribute to her late husband by wearing a tie-dye shirt, as they wore matching tie-dye pajamas at their low-key wedding after he picked up making the pattern as a hobby in the early days of the Covid pandemic.
Plaza began her career working in sketch comedy in the mid-2000s, before she began appearing in short films and online comedy videos later in the decade.
Last August Plaza opened up about the grief she had experienced during a conversation with her former co-star Amy Poehler on her Good Hang podcast
She went on: '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?
'It's like [an] alien movie or something with Miles Teller', she said, referring to the 2025 Apple TV+ science fiction thriller and Sigourney Weaver.
She continued: 'In the movie, there's like 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, like, 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, like, 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.'
If you or someone you know needs help, please call or text the confidential 24/7 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in the US on 988. There is also an online chat available at 988lifeline.org.
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