{"id":259858,"date":"2026-01-30T20:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/259858\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:13:08","slug":"catherine-ohara-actor-known-for-home-alone-and-schitts-creek-dies-aged-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/259858\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine O\u2019Hara, actor known for Home Alone and Schitt\u2019s Creek, dies aged 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">She was a frequent collaborator of Christopher Guest\u2019s, appearing in his mockumentary films Best in Show, For Your Consideration, Waiting for Guffman and A Mighty Wind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">In 2020, O\u2019Hara won her second Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series for her role in Schitt\u2019s Creek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI will forever be grateful to Eugene and Daniel Levy for the opportunity to play a woman of a certain age, my age, who gets to fully be herself,\u201d she said in part during her speech. She also won a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for the series. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">She was nominated for two Emmys at the 2025 ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">O\u2019Hara skipped the Golden Globes awards this year on January 11, despite receiving a nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Female Actor for her role in the Apple+ series, The Studio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">She was born in Toronto in 1954, and is survived by her two children and husband, Bo Welch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She was a frequent collaborator of Christopher Guest\u2019s, appearing in his mockumentary films Best in Show, For Your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[129498,3376,18919,34384,95,149322,3390,13500,34692,6179,7126,156,2082,1345,33450,111,139,69,149320,3599,149321],"class_list":["post-259858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-129498","tag-actor","tag-aged","tag-alone","tag-and","tag-beetlejuice","tag-best","tag-catherine","tag-creek","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-entertainment","tag-for","tag-home","tag-known","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ohara","tag-roles","tag-schitts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}