{"id":399329,"date":"2026-01-30T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399329\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:54:08","slug":"schitts-creek-home-alone-star-was-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399329\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Home Alone’ Star Was 71"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCatherine O\u2019Hara, the two-time Emmy-winning actor who starred in \u201cHome Alone<\/a>\u201d and \u201cBest in Show\u201d and had an impressive late-career renaissance in \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek,\u201d has died, her manager confirmed to Variety. She was 71.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to her agency CAA, O\u2019Hara died Friday at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness.<\/p>\n

\n\tO\u2019Hara\u2019s Hollywood career spanned five decades, beginning with the Canadian sketch comedy series \u201cSecond City Television,\u201d which she created with Eugene Levy, and for which she earned her first Emmy and earned four nominations. O\u2019Hara went on to star in films such as \u201cAfter Hours,\u201d \u201cBeetlejuice\u201d and the first two \u201cHome Alone\u201d movies, in which she played the mother of Macaulay Culkin\u2019s character, Kevin. O\u2019Hara maintained a close friendship with Culkin and honored him at his Walk of Fame ceremony in 2023.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe was a frequent collaborator of Christopher Guest\u2019s, appearing in his mockumentary films \u201cBest in Show,\u201d \u201cFor Your Consideration,\u201d \u201cWaiting for Guffman\u201d and \u201cA Mighty Wind.\u201d And she had voice roles in beloved animated features including \u201cThe Nightmare Before Christmas\u201d and \u201cChicken Little.\u201d O\u2019Hara\u2019s recent roles also included the legacy sequel \u201cBeetlejuice Beetlejuice,\u201d in which she reprised her role as Delia Deetz, and the Apple action film \u201cArgylle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tO\u2019Hara experienced a career renaissance in her 60s, starting with her role as riches-to-rags housewife Moira Rose in the CBC sitcom \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek,\u201d in which she starred opposite Eugene and Dan Levy and Annie Murphy. She won her second Emmy for \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek,\u201d which propelled her into other major TV roles in HBO\u2019s \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d and Apple TV\u2019s \u201cThe Studio.\u201d In the latter, O\u2019Hara played a storied Hollywood executive who was shoved aside by her studio. The second season of the Seth Rogen showbiz satire recently began filming.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview with Variety about \u201cThe Studio\u201d in 2025, O\u2019Hara reflected on how Hollywood has changed over the course of her career. \u201cIt must be a much more nervous business now, than in the past,\u201d she said. \u201cThe internet and streaming must have opened up a world of good and horrific possibilities for people.\u201d And despite \u201cThe Studio\u2019s\u201d scathing takedown of Hollywood executive culture, O\u2019Hara said, \u201cMost people are trying to do and want to do good work. And most people want to be entertained.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tO\u2019Hara was born in Toronto, but she became a beloved figure in Los Angeles. She was named the honorary mayor of Brentwood in 2021. <\/p>\n

\n\tShe is survived by her husband, production designer Bo Welch, and sons Matthew and Luke, along with siblings Michael O\u2019Hara, Mary Margaret O\u2019Hara, Maureen Jolley, Marcus O\u2018Hara, Tom O\u2019Hara and Patricia Wallice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catherine O\u2019Hara, the two-time Emmy-winning actor who starred in \u201cHome Alone\u201d and \u201cBest in Show\u201d and had an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[149500,96,47375,2839,149501,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-399329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-catherine-ohara","tag-entertainment","tag-home-alone","tag-movies","tag-schitts-creek","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}