{"id":273102,"date":"2026-01-31T04:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T04:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273102\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T04:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T04:09:11","slug":"catherine-ohara-actor-known-for-home-alone-and-schitts-creek-dies-aged-71-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273102\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine O\u2019Hara, actor known for Home Alone and Schitt\u2019s Creek, dies aged 71 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catherine O\u2019Hara<\/a>, the actor known for Schitt\u2019s Creek, Home Alone and Best in Show, has died at the age of 71.<\/p>\n

Her manager confirmed the news to Variety. She died after a brief illness.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Hara started her comedy career in the 1970s and helped to create the Canadian sketch show SCTV. She broke into film in the 1980s with her first big screen credit in romantic comedy Nothing Personal with Donald Sutherland and in 1985 she had a role in Martin Scorsese\u2019s black comedy After Hours.<\/p>\n

In 1988, O\u2019Hara starred in Tim Burton\u2019s comedy horror Beetlejuice and later reprised the role in the 2024 sequel. <\/p>\n

O\u2019Hara played Macaulay Culkin\u2019s careless mother in smash hit 1990 comedy Home Alone, a role she also reprised for the 1992 sequel.<\/p>\n

She began working with Christopher Guest in 1996, starring in mockumentary Waiting for Guffman and starred in three more of his films: Best in Show, A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Hara also provided her voice for many animated films including Chicken Little, Over the Hedge, Monster House, Frankenweenie and, most recently, The Wild Robot.<\/p>\n

\"O’HaraO\u2019Hara played Macaulay Culkin\u2019s careless mother in smash hit 1990 Christmas comedy Home Alone. Photograph: Ron Galella, Ltd\/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images <\/p>\n

On the small screen, she had roles in The Larry Sanders Show, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm and 30 Rock before she reunited with another Guest actor, Eugene Levy, for the hit sitcom Schitt\u2019s Creek.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s always more fun working with someone you know,\u201d she said to the Guardian in 2021. \u201cI get too nervous doing solo bits \u2013 it\u2019s too much pressure and it feels like showing off. With someone else, you can share the showing off.\u201d<\/p>\n

The show, about a wealthy family who are forced to downsize, ran for six seasons and won O\u2019Hara an Emmy award.<\/p>\n

Her recent television roles also included A Series of Unfortunate Events and The Last of Us, which scored her an Emmy nomination.<\/p>\n

Her Last of Us co-star Pedro Pascal paid tribute to her on Instagram. \u201cOh, genius to be near you,\u201d he wrote. \u201cEternally grateful. There is less light in my world, this lucky world that had you, will keep you, always.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Hara had recently been seen in the award-winning comedy series The Studio with Seth Rogen. The role had garnered her Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m always drawn to characters who have no idea of the impression they\u2019re making on other people,\u201d she said in 2021. \u201cWe\u2019re all delusional, really, and I love that about us humans and I love playing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

More to follow. – The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catherine O\u2019Hara, the actor known for Schitt\u2019s Creek, Home Alone and Best in Show, has died at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[133294,42,43,40,38,41,39,90],"class_list":{"0":"post-273102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-catherine-o-hara","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273102","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=273102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}