{"id":466015,"date":"2026-02-10T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466015\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:57:08","slug":"catherine-ohara-died-from-pulmonary-embolism-with-cancer-as-underlying-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466015\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine O\u2019Hara died from pulmonary embolism, with cancer as underlying cause"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

Catherine O’Hara at the U.K. premiere of ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ in London in August, 2024.Scott A Garfitt\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Catherine O\u2019Hara died from a pulmonary embolism, with cancer as the underlying cause.<\/p>\n

A Los Angeles County death certificate issued Monday lists the pulmonary embolism, which occurs when a blood clot blocks an artery in the lungs, as the immediate cause of the actor\u2019s Jan. 30 death at age 71. Rectal cancer was the long-term cause.<\/p>\n

The oncologist who signed off on the certificate indicated that he had been treating O\u2019Hara since March of last year, and last saw her on Jan. 27. She died at a hospital in Santa Monica, California.<\/p>\n

Readers share their favourite Catherine O\u2019Hara moments<\/a><\/p>\n

From Schitt’s Creek to Home Alone, here are five of Catherine O’Hara’s greatest performances<\/a><\/p>\n

The beloved Canadian-born comic actor and SCTV alum starred as Macaulay Culkin\u2019s mother in two Home Alone movies and won an Emmy as the dramatically oblivious wealthy matriarch Moira Rose in Schitt\u2019s Creek.<\/p>\n

Her death was a surprise to most, and an initial statement from her representatives said only that she died \u201cfollowing a brief illness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Collaborators including Culkin, Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy and Pedro Pascal paid her loving tribute after her death.<\/p>\n

The document said she was cremated. It lists her profession as \u201cactress\u201d and her business as movies. It said she practised her trade for 50 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Catherine O’Hara at the U.K. premiere of ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ in London in August,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,75,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-466015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-entertainment","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466015","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=466015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}