![\"Catherine](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/catherine-o-hara-emmy-winning-schitt-s-creek-and-home-alone-star-dies-at-71.jpg\")
She starred in Schitt\u2019s Creek with Annie Murphy, Eugene and Dan Levy (Pop TV via AP)\n<\/p>\nCatherine O\u2019Hara, the Emmy-winning actor known for comedic roles across the decades, from Kevin\u2019s beleaguered mother in Home Alone to Moira Rose in Schitt\u2019s Creek, has died aged 71.<\/p>\n
Canadian-born O\u2019Hara died at her home in Los Angeles \u201cfollowing a brief illness\u201d, according to a statement from her agency, CAA. Further details were not immediately available.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Hara\u2019s career was launched at the Second City in Toronto in the in 1970s. It was there that she first worked with Eugene Levy, who would become a lifelong collaborator \u2014 and her Schitt\u2019s Creek co-star.<\/p>\n
She starred in Schitt\u2019s Creek with Annie Murphy, Eugene and Dan Levy (Pop TV via AP)\n<\/p>\n
The two would be among the original cast of the sketch show SCTV, short for Second City Television, which spawned a legendary group of esoteric comedians including Martin Short, John Candy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis and Joe Flaherty.<\/p>\n
Schitt\u2019s Creek would be a career-capping triumph and the perfect personification of her comic talents.<\/p>\n
The small show created by Levy and his son Dan about a wealthy family forced to live in a tiny town would dominate the Emmys in its sixth and final season.<\/p>\n
It brought O\u2019Hara, always a beloved figure, a new generation of fans and put her at the centre of cultural attention.<\/p>\n
It also brought a career renaissance that led to a dramatic turn on HBO\u2019s The Last Of Us and a serious role as a Hollywood producer in The Studio, both of which earned her Emmy nominations.<\/p>\n
She is survived by her husband, Bo Welch, and sons Matthew and Luke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catherine O\u2019Hara, the Emmy-winning actor known for comedic roles across the decades, from Kevin\u2019s beleaguered mother in Home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-272663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}