{"id":510271,"date":"2026-03-02T22:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510271\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:13:15","slug":"catherine-ohara-gets-standing-ovation-for-winning-posthumous-award-at-2026-actor-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510271\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine O\u2019Hara gets standing ovation for winning posthumous award at 2026 Actor Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catherine O\u2019Hara<\/a> was posthumously honoured at the 2026 Actor Awards (formerly the SAG Awards), approximately one month after her death.<\/p>\n

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The Canadian comedian and actor, who died<\/a> on Jan. 30 from a pulmonary embolism<\/a>, won best female actor in a comedy series for her performance on\u00a0The Studio.<\/p>\n

The audience gave the beloved actor a standing ovation after she was announced as the winner at the Shine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Fellow Canadian Seth Rogen<\/a>, co-creator of The Studio, accepted the award on her behalf.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was asked to assume the very sad honour of accepting this award on O\u2019Hara\u2019s behalf,\u201d Rogan began. \u201cI know she would have been honoured to receive this award from her fellow performers, who I know she respected so much. She was such big fans of all of yours.<\/p>\n

\u201cI obviously have been reflecting on the time I was fortunate enough to spend with her and working with her, and something that I\u2019ve just been marvelling at over the last few weeks was was really her ability to be generous and kind and gracious, while never, ever minimizing her own talents and her own ability to contribute to the work that we were doing. She knew she could destroy, and she wanted to destroy every day on set.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI haven\u2019t said this to the other actors because I didn\u2019t want them to get ideas, but pretty much every evening before she had a shooting day on our show, she would email me and Evan [Goldberg] an email that always was pretty similar. It said, \u2018Hello, I hope you\u2019ll consider the following.\u2019 And then there would be a completely rewritten version of the scene she was in, and literally 100 per cent of the time, it made not just her character better, but it made the scene better and the entire show better as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He went on to say that O\u2019Hara showed \u201cthat you can be a genius and be kind, and one of those things does not have to come at the expense of the other in any way, shape or form.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo I guess I\u2019ll just leave you with this. If you have people in your lives that don\u2019t know her work, if there are kids in your lives or just people who are out of touch or stupid or something, just show them O\u2019Hara dancing to Harry Belafonte in Beetlejuice. Show them O\u2019Hara hurting her knee in Best in Show and doing that amazing thing where she hobbles around and tells the people, as they are laughing, that that\u2019s Catherine O\u2019Hara,\u201d Rogen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were lucky that we got to live in a world where she so generously shared her talents with us,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

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The Studio also won best comedy series and best actor in a comedy series for Rogen. In the show, O\u2019Hara played the movie executive Patty Leigh.<\/p>\n

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O\u2019Hara\u2019s win marked the first time a female actor has won a posthumous Actor Award and the third time in history that one has been awarded. Heath Ledger<\/a> was previously awarded for outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role in 2009 for his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight. Chadwick Boseman<\/a> was also posthumously awarded for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role in 2021 for his role as Levee Green in\u00a0Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Hara\u2019s cause of death was released one week after the Canadian actor died. The Schitt\u2019s Creek star died on Jan. 30 from a pulmonary embolism, with rectal cancer listed as an underlying cause, according to O\u2019Hara\u2019s death certificate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the death certificate released by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office and viewed by Global News \u2014\u00a0first secured by TMZ<\/a> \u2014 O\u2019Hara died at a Santa Monica, Calif., hospital and her body was cremated.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s unclear how long O\u2019Hara had been battling cancer. Her agency, Creative Artists Agency, previously said the actor died at her home in Los Angeles \u201cfollowing a brief illness,\u201d but didn\u2019t provide any further details at the time.<\/p>\n

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O\u2019Hara\u2019s career was launched with the Second City comedy group in Toronto in the 1970s. It was there that she first worked with Eugene Levy<\/a>, who would become a lifelong collaborator and her\u00a0Schitt\u2019s Creek\u00a0co-star. The two would be among the original cast of the sketch show\u00a0SCTV, short for\u00a0Second City Television.<\/p>\n

The series, which began on Canadian TV in the 1970s and aired on NBC in the U.S., spawned a legendary group of esoteric comedians that O\u2019Hara would work with often, including Martin Short, John Candy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis and Joe Flaherty.<\/p>\n

She won her first Emmy for her writing on the show.<\/p>\n

Her second, for best actress in a comedy series, came four decades later for the role of Moira Rose in\u00a0Schitt\u2019s Creek, a career-capping triumph and the perfect personification of her comedic talents. The series, created by Levy and his son, Dan, about a wealthy family forced to live in a tiny town, would\u00a0dominate the Emmys in 2020<\/a>\u00a0for its sixth and final season.<\/p>\n

\u2014 With files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n

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