Eugene Mirman Car Crash Update: Inside His Marriage to Therese Plaehn, First Wife Katie Tharp’s Death, and Family Life

Eugene Mirman’s fans are freaking out over news of his nasty car wreck, which has people digging back into his life story, like his marriage to Therese Plaehn.

Plaehn’s a solid actress and producer with credits in movies like Don’t Look Up and The Boston Strangler, plus TV gigs on FBI, Julia, Defending Jacob, Mr. Robot, and New Amsterdam. She and Mirman got hitched in May 2023, a fresh start for him after some rough years. They keep things low-key, but she’s been his rock through the hard stuff.

Before her, he was married to Katie Westfall Tharp, a top set director in comedy TV. They wed in 2015 after dating forever. But Tharp had been fighting breast cancer since 2011. They had their boy Oliver in 2016, but she lost the battle in 2020.

The 2020 doc It Started as a Joke laid out their whole saga. Mirman has opened up about how her death wrecked him and raising their kid solo before Plaehn came along.

Right now, he’s on the mend from a scary crash on March 31, 2025, in Bedford, New Hampshire. His car slammed a toll booth on the Everett Turnpike and went up in flames. Firefighters and good Samaritans yanked him out fast.

They rushed him to the hospital – first word was bad, but he’s stable now. Cops are still figuring out what happened.

With Plaehn by his side, fans feel better knowing he’s pulling through this mess.