Director Noah Baumbach, who immortalized 1980’s Park Slope (his hometown) in his 2005 film, The Squid and the Whale, which dealt with divorce and its repercussions, has split from his wife, Jennifer Jason Leigh. The acclaimed actress has starred in many films including, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Short Cuts, Single, White, Female and Baumbach’s Margot at the Wedding.
The couple, married in 2005, have an infant son. Leigh filed for divorce claiming irreconcilable differences.