{"id":157900,"date":"2026-01-31T10:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157900\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:21:17","slug":"where-to-watch-catherine-ohara-in-10-unforgettable-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157900\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to watch Catherine O’Hara in 10 unforgettable roles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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She portrayed a spoiled socialite turned impoverished rural motel manager in \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek.\u201d She played a self-centered stepmom who, when possessed by an evil entity, channeled Harry Belafonte\u2019s voice singing \u201cDay-O (The Banana Boat Song)\u201d in 1988\u2019s \u201cBeetlejuice.\u201d She was the harried, forgetful mom who left her son behind in \u201cHome Alone,\u201d a goofy \u201890s comedy that would become a Christmas classic.<\/p>\n

Catherine O\u2019Hara, who died Friday at the age of 71<\/a>, brought to life dozens of characters over her 50-year career across film and television, and no two of her performances were alike. She might play an eccentric artist one moment, an insufferable snob the next, then a deceptively \u201cnormal\u201d housewife, animating each with their own personality, quirks and ticks.<\/p>\n

Though a comedic performer at heart, O\u2019Hara, as they say, had range. From her recurring role as a grieving therapist in Season 2 of HBO\u2019s dystopian drama \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d to voicing and acting a plethora of bizarre characters in Tim Burton\u2018s films, O\u2019Hara made her mark. Here are 10 of her most memorable roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> She portrayed a spoiled socialite turned impoverished rural motel manager in \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek.\u201d She played a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[77084,76770,6193,77082,77083,77081,1431,1924,33403,1073,77080,48,52,51,47,50,49,425,1860,77085,10605],"class_list":["post-157900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-50-year-career","tag-catherine-ohara","tag-character","tag-community-theater","tag-cookie-fleck","tag-eugene-levy","tag-family","tag-film","tag-hbo","tag-home","tag-indelible-role","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-series","tag-show","tag-straight-man","tag-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157900","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=157900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}