Catherine O\u2019Hara, the Emmy-winning\u00a0actress\u00a0whose career spanned five decades, has died aged 71, her representatives have confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a brief statement released on Friday, US time, they announced: \u201cWe are saddened to announce the passing of Catherine O\u2019Hara.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her death followed a medical emergency at her Brentwood home in Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to TMZ, emergency services were called after reports she was struggling to breathe.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dispatch audio\u00a0indicated\u00a0that\u00a0the situation was urgent.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Fire Department confirmed it responded to a call at the property at 4.48am local time and transported O\u2019Hara to hospital in a \u201cserious\u201d condition.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
She died just hours later.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While the cause of death has not been formally confirmed, O\u2019Hara was known to have Situs inversus, a rare condition in which a person\u2019s internal organs are mirrored from their usual positions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The condition is often harmless but can complicate diagnosis and treatment of other illnesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
O\u2019Hara leaves behind her husband of 33 years, production designer Bob Welch, and their two sons, Matthew and Luke.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Born in Toronto on March 4, 1954, O\u2019Hara rose to prominence through Canada\u2019s influential sketch comedy scene. S\u00a0<\/p>\n
he\u00a0first found fame on Second City Television, where her work earned her an early Emmy Award and set the tone for a career defined by sharp wit and emotional depth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
International audiences came to know her through film roles, including Delia Deetz in Tim Burton\u2019s Beetlejuice in 1988.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two years later, she starred as the frazzled mother of Kevin McCallister in Home Alone,\u00a0reprising\u00a0the role in the 1992 sequel. She\u00a0maintained\u00a0a close bond with Macaulay Culkin and\u00a0honoured\u00a0him at his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in\u00a02023.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A major career resurgence came decades later with her portrayal of Moira Rose in Schitt\u2019s Creek, a role that delivered her second Emmy and cemented her status as a comedy great.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was nominated\u00a0numerous\u00a0times across acting and writing categories and was a double nominee last year for her work in The Last of Us and Seth Rogen\u2019s\u00a0The Studio.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her appearance at the 2025 Emmy Awards would be her final public awards outing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, she was nominated for a Golden Globe but did not attend the ceremony.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In recent years, O\u2019Hara returned to the Beetlejuice franchise for its 2024 sequel and appeared in the Apple action film\u00a0Argylle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hollywood figures quickly shared their grief.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Culkin posted a tribute alongside a photo of them together, writing: \u201cMama. I thought we had time. I wanted more. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you. I\u00a0heard\u00a0you but I had so much more to say. I love you.\u00a0I\u2019ll\u00a0see you later.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pedro Pascal described her as \u201cthe one and ONLY\u201d,\u00a0while Seth Rogen said: \u201cThis is just devastating.\u00a0We\u2019re\u00a0all lucky we got to live in a world with her in it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Michael Keaton, who worked with O\u2019Hara on both Beetlejuice films, wrote: \u201cThis one hurts. Man am I\u00a0gonna\u00a0miss her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catherine O\u2019Hara, the Emmy-winning\u00a0actress\u00a0whose career spanned five decades, has died aged 71, her representatives have confirmed.\u00a0 In a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,231969,447,134,1973,232489,200088,138663],"class_list":["post-449354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-catherine-ohara","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood","tag-hollywood-star","tag-home-alone","tag-schitts-creek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}