{"id":459192,"date":"2026-02-10T01:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/459192\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T01:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:17:09","slug":"cause-of-death-revealed-for-emmy-winning-actress-catherine-ohara-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/459192\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause of death revealed for Emmy-winning actress Catherine O\u2019Hara, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(Gray News) &#8211; A cause of death has been determined for Emmy-winning actress Catherine O\u2019Hara, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">O\u2019Hara\u2019s cause of death was listed as a pulmonary embolism, with rectal cancer as the underlying cause, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/Culture\/catherine-ohara-cause-death-revealed\/story?id=129786941\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/Culture\/catherine-ohara-cause-death-revealed\/story?id=129786941\">ABC News reported.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Catherine O'Hara arrives at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, at the...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SRXFRH3H2FAC5MVMW6VSJ2STPM.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Catherine O&#8217;Hara arrives at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.(Richard Shotwell | Richard Shotwell\/Invision\/AP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">O\u2019Hara died at her home in Los Angeles \u201cfollowing a brief illness\u201d at the age of 71 on Jan. 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">O\u2019Hara\u2019s career was launched with the Second City comedy group in Toronto in the 1970s. It was there that she first worked with Eugene Levy, who would become a lifelong collaborator \u2014 and her \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek\u201d costar. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two would be among the original cast of the sketch show \u201cSCTV,\u201d short for \u201cSecond City Television.\u201d O\u2019Hara would win her first Emmy for her writing on the show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Her second, for best actress in a comedy series, came four decades later for \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek,\u201d a career-capping triumph and the perfect personification of her comic talents. She also won a Golden Globe and two SAG Awards for the role. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She\u2019s also known for playing a mother who accidentally abandoned her child in the two \u201cHome Alone\u201d movies. The films were among the biggest box office earners of the early 1990s and their Christmas setting made them TV perennials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Gray News) &#8211; A cause of death has been determined for Emmy-winning actress Catherine O\u2019Hara, according to multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[62914,15526,236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-459192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-catherine-ohara","9":"tag-cause-of-death","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}