{"id":156935,"date":"2026-01-30T20:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156935\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:08:07","slug":"catherine-ohara-dead-schitts-creek-and-home-alone-star-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156935\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine O’Hara dead: ‘Schitt’s Creek’ and ‘Home Alone’ star dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Catherine O\u2019Hara<\/a>, the comedy legend who starred in such classics as \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek<\/a>\u201d and \u201cHome Alone<\/a>,\u201d has died. She was 71.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Hara died at her home in Los Angeles after a brief illness, her publicist at CAA confirmed.
No other details were available.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Hara was a huge figure in film and television for more than four decades. She first broke out in \u201cSCTV,\u201d or \u201cSecond City Television,\u201d a Canadian sketch comedy series for which she earned an Emmy Award for writing in 1982, along with her \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek\u201d co-star Eugene Levy. The pair\u2019s collaborations also include four mockumentaries directed by Christopher Guest (and co-written by Levy): \u201cWaiting for Guffman\u201d (1996), \u201cBest in Show\u201d (2000), \u201cA Mighty Wind\u201d (2003) and \u201cFor Your Consideration\u201d (2006). <\/p>\n

On \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek,\u201d O\u2019Hara portrayed Moira Rose, the family\u2019s nonsensical matriarch and former soap star, for six seasons. Her portrayal landed her an Emmy for lead actress in a comedy series in 2020. <\/p>\n

\u201cI love playing Moira,\u201d O\u2019Hara<\/a> told The Times in 2019. \u201cI just wanted to create a character that I could live with for more than one season, because I had never committed to one character for any length of time [before].\u201d<\/p>\n

When approached for the role, \u201cit took me a few moments to commit,\u201d O\u2019Hara<\/a> told The Times in 2016. \u201cI already trusted Eugene as a writer and an actor, and as a good man who I could stand to spend time with.\u201d <\/p>\n

O\u2019Hara\u2019s prolific career also includes memorable turns in classics such as the iconic sculptor mom in Tim Burton\u2019s 1988 ghost comedy \u201cBeetlejuice\u201d as well as the stressed out McCallister matriarch in the \u201cHome Alone\u201d franchise. She reprised her role as Delia Deetz in the 2024 sequel \u201cBeetlejuice Beetlejuice.\u201d <\/p>\n

More recently, she portrayed ousted studio head turned film producer Patty Leigh in the Apple TV comedy \u201cThe Studio\u201d as well as widowed therapist Gail in HBO\u2019s survival drama \u201cThe Last of Us.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cCatherine really goes above and beyond in terms of what she brings creatively to whatever she\u2019s doing,\u201d Levy said of his longtime collaborator in 2016. \u201cA lot of great ideas she brought to the role [like] the idea that Moira wears wigs that represent her different moods was just an amazing touch [that] opened up so many doors on this show.\u201d <\/p>\n

O\u2019Hara is survived by her husband 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

This story will be updated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catherine O\u2019Hara, the comedy legend who starred in such classics as \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek\u201d and \u201cHome Alone,\u201d has died.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[74621,76770,76772,63667,339,1073,76773,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,4287,31520,76771,10368,76774,2850,51205],"class_list":["post-156935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-caa","tag-catherine-ohara","tag-comedy-legend","tag-creek","tag-death","tag-home","tag-huge-figure","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-movie","tag-publicist","tag-schitt","tag-score","tag-sctv","tag-star","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}