{"id":464554,"date":"2026-02-09T22:28:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/464554\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:28:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:28:48","slug":"catherine-ohara-cause-of-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/464554\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine O’Hara Cause Of Death Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe cause of death for Catherine O\u2019Hara has been revealed.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe beloved star of Schitt\u2019s Creek, SCTV and Home Alone died of a pulmonary embolism with rectal cancer as the underlying cause, according to the death certificate issued by the Los Angeles County Health Department, reported by TMZ.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Diego<\/p>\n

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\n\tIt was reported on January 30 that O\u2019Hara passed away in Los Angeles<\/a> following a brief illness. She was 71.<\/p>\n

\n\tO\u2019Hara launched her extraordinary career as one of the ensemble members of the star-making cast of SCTV before gaining acclaim in such films as\u00a0Beetlejuice, Home Alone, A Mighty Wind\u00a0and \u2014 in a full-circle embrace of her TV roots that earned her an Emmy Award \u2013the 2015-20 comedy\u00a0Schitt\u2019s Creek.<\/p>\n

\n\tO\u2019Hara was most recently seen reprising the role of Delia Deetz in\u00a0Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, as well as season two of the HBO Max critically acclaimed series\u00a0The Last of Us, and in the hit comedy series\u00a0The Studio\u00a0from Point Grey Pictures for Apple TV. For her performances in both\u00a0The Last of Us\u00a0and\u00a0The Studio, O\u2019Hara earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Hollywood Remembers Catherine O\u2019Hara: \u201cShe Was My Meryl Streep\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018The Studio\u2019s Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg Remember Their \u201cIdol\u201d Catherine O\u2019Hara During DGA Awards Speech<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Macaulay Culkin\u00a0Pays Tribute To Late \u2018Home Alone\u2019 Co-Star Catherine O\u2019Hara: \u201cMama. I Thought We Had Time\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018The Last Of Us\u2019 Stars Pedro Pascal, Gabriel Luna & Creator Craig Mazin Mourn Catherine O\u2019Hara: \u201cThere Is Less Light In My World\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Schitt\u2019s Creek\u2019s Eugene Levy, Dan Levy & Co-Stars Pay Tribute To Catherine O\u2019Hara: \u201cIt\u2019s Hard To Imagine A World Without Her In It\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019 Pays Tribute To Catherine O\u2019Hara<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Martin Short Toasts To \u201cSweetest Angel\u201d Catherine O\u2019Hara During Comedy Tour With Steve Martin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cause of death for Catherine O\u2019Hara has been revealed. The beloved star of Schitt\u2019s Creek, SCTV and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,70781,361,75,18321,2385],"class_list":["post-464554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-catherine-ohara","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-novid","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}