Aubrey Plaza and Chris Abbott stepped onto the 2026 Tony Awards red carpet in New York on Sunday, June 7, turning a night built around his first Tony nomination into a public milestone for the couple. Plaza is pregnant with their first baby, and the pair showed up together at Radio City Music Hall as Abbott competed for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play.
The appearance gave readers a fresh reason to search for Plaza now: it was their first major awards-show outing since news broke in April that she was expecting, and it placed her pregnancy beside Abbott’s biggest Broadway recognition to date. Plaza, 41, wore a sleek pinstripe gown with EFFY jewelry, while Abbott, 40, kept to a classic suit as he was honored for playing Biff in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
Plaza had already made the pregnancy public in a way only she could. On SmartLess in April, she said there was “a baby inside of me,” then described a day when both she and her dog were getting scans at the doctor’s office. She later said she was excited to become a mom, after debuting her bump while walking her dog in New York and appearing with Abbott at an afterparty tied to Death of a Salesman’s opening night.
Abbott, for his part, seemed happy to keep the moment light when congratulated on the pregnancy during a May appearance on Today With Jenna and Sheinelle. He joked that the congratulations were meant for his Tony nomination, then quickly laughed it off. “That’s very nice. Thank you very much. It’s very exciting,” he said, making clear the family news mattered more than the quip.
The timing leaves one question still hanging: the couple has not shared a due date or any other detail about the baby, even as they continue to make public appearances around Abbott’s first Tony nod. For now, the clearest answer is the simplest one — Plaza and Abbott arrived at Radio City Music Hall as both an awards-season couple and an expectant family.
