{"id":502021,"date":"2026-02-25T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502021\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:24:08","slug":"daughter-of-martin-short-was-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502021\/","title":{"rendered":"Daughter of Martin Short Was 42"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKatherine Short, one of the three children adopted by Only Murders in the Building star Martin Short<\/a> and his late wife, actress Nancy Dolman, has died. She was 42.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt is with profound grief that we confirm the passing of Katherine Hartley Short,\u201d a rep for Martin Short said in a statement. \u201cThe Short family is devastated by this loss and asks for privacy at this time. Katherine was beloved by all and will be remembered for the light and joy she brought into the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLaw enforcement sources told TMZ<\/a> that she died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, with the LAPD responding to her Hollywood Hills home shortly after 6:40 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n

\n\tSurvivors include her younger brothers, Henry and Oliver.<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn on Dec. 3, 1983, Katherine Short received a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology and gender sexuality studies from NYU in 2006 and her master\u2019s in social work from USC in 2010.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to her website, she later worked at UCLA\u2019s Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital and for the dual-diagnosis outpatient program Camden Center. She was said to be involved in a charity called Bring Change 2 Mind<\/a>, which aims to \u201cempower young people to build connected, empathetic and supportive school communities where conversations about mental health are welcome and stigma-free.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShort and Dolman first met in 1972 when they worked together on a production of Godspell, and they married in 1980. Dolman died in August 2010 after a battle with ovarian cancer, after which Short told<\/a> The Guardian: \u201cIt\u2019s been a tough two years for my children. This is the thing of life that we live in denial about, that it will ever happen to us or our loved ones, and when it does you gain a little and you suffer a little. There\u2019s no big surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShort is on a two-man comedy-and-music tour with Martin, and their show scheduled for Friday at the Miller High Life Theatre in Milwaukee has been postponed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katherine Short, one of the three children adopted by Only Murders in the Building star Martin Short and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,113445,31481],"class_list":{"0":"post-502021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-martin-short","13":"tag-obituaries"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502021","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=502021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}