class=”story”>
Obituaries
Содержание статьи:
Catherine O’Hara, who starred in ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ dies at 71 January 30, 20263:23 PM ET
Catherine O’Hara in Los Angeles in 2025. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption
toggle caption Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
Canadian actress and screenwriter Catherine O’Hara has died at her home in Los Angeles, following a brief illness, according to her agent and manager. She was 71 years old and was known for absurdist comedy. She enjoyed a six-decade career in TV and film playing sometimes over-the-top, but endearing characters.
In one of her most memorable roles, O’Hara played the freaked-out mom of rascally son Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) in two Home Alone movies. Later, she portrayed the self-centered, whiny matriarch in the riches-to-rags TV sitcom Schitt’s Creek — a role for which she earned an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award in 2020.
Catherine O’Hara and Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. Don Smetzer/20th Century Fox/Alamy hide caption
toggle caption Don Smetzer/20th Century Fox/Alamy
She won her first Emmy in 1982 for writing on the Canadian sketch comedy TV series Second City Television, or SCTV. She cofounded the show, and created characters such as the show biz has-been Lola Heatherton.
Sponsor Message
“I loved playing cocky untalented people,” O’Hara told Fresh Air in 1992.
On SCTV in the ’70s and ’80s, she teamed up with another Canadian comic actor, Eugene Levy. Together, they — along with an ensemble — went on to perform in a string of films by director Christopher Guest.
O’Hara and Levy were dog trainers in the Guest’s mockumentary Best in Show. And they were a folk-singing duo in A Mighty Wind.
Moira Rose (Catherine O’Hara) and Johnny Rose (Eugene Levy) in Schitt’s Creek. Pop TV hide caption
toggle caption Pop TV
O’Hara and Levy also acted together as the parents in Schitt’s Creek. More recently, O’Hara acted with another Canadian, Seth Rogen, in his Apple TV comedy The Studio. She played a movie studio head who gets pushed aside.
O’Hara was born and raised in Toronto, and got her start as an understudy for Gilda Radner at the Second City Theater in Toronto.
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
Catherine O’Hara, star of Schitt’s Creek
Catherine O’Hara, star of Schitt’s Creek
Listen · 25:37 25:37 Toggle more options
- Download
