Actress Catherine O\u2019Hara died from a pulmonary embolism with cancer as the underlying cause, it has been revealed.<\/p>\n
Tributes have poured in for the Home Alone star, who died on January 30 at the age of 71.<\/p>\n
A Los Angeles County death certificate issued on Monday listed the\u00a0embolism as the immediate cause of her death at a hospital in Santa Monica, California.<\/p>\n
Rectal cancer was given as the long-term cause of her death, with the oncologist who signed off the certificate indicating that he had been treating her since March last year.<\/p>\n
The Canadian-American actress was also known for her roles in\u00a0the Beetlejuice films and TV comedy Schitt\u2019s Creek, for which she won an Emmy and a Golden Globe.<\/p>\n
Actors including Meryl Streep,\u00a0Macaulay Culkin, Michael Keaton and Seth Rogen all paid tribute to O\u2019Hara in the days following her death.<\/p>\n
Eugene Levy, her on-screen husband in the US sitcom, said he was struggling for words to describe the loss of the actress.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Levy said: \u201cWords seem inadequate to express the loss I feel today. I had the honour of knowing and working with the great Catherine O\u2019Hara for over 50 years.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that he \u201ccherished our working relationship, but most of all our friendship\u201d.<\/p>\n
Alec Baldwin, who starred with her in Beetlejuice, described O\u2019Hara as \u201cone of the greatest comic talents in the movie business\u201d who possessed \u201ca quality that was all her own\u201d.<\/p>\n
A more recent role saw O\u2019Hara starring in the second season of The Last Of Us, alongside Pedro Pascal, who paid tribute to her, saying: \u201cOh, genius to be near you. Eternally grateful. There is less light in my world, this lucky world that had you, will keep you, always.\u201d<\/p>\n
A pulmonary embolism is when a blood clot blocks a blood vessel in the lungs, and can be life-threatening if not treated quickly, according to the NHS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actress Catherine O\u2019Hara died from a pulmonary embolism with cancer as the underlying cause, it has been revealed.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-290657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290657","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=290657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}