Catherine O’Hara, the beloved Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek star, has died, her manager confirmed to Variety on Friday. She was 71. TMZ was first to report the news.
The Canadian actress died at her Los Angeles home on Friday following an illness, Variety reported.
O’Hara, born March 4, 1954, in Toronto, Ontario, was best known for her comedic role as Moira Rose on Schitt’s Creek, which ran for six seasons from 2015 to 2020.
The Dan and Eugene Levy-created sitcom effectively launched O’Hara’s career, which spanned more than four decades, back into the spotlight, where her comedic talents were widely praised. For her portrayal of the eccentric matriarch and former soap opera star, O’Hara received a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Series Musical or Comedy and Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
More recently, O’Hara appeared in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in 2024, where she reprised her role as eccentric stepmother, Delia Deetz.
In addition to starring on the critically acclaimed Canadian sitcom and returning to her Beetlejuice beginnings, O’Hara appeared alongside a young Macaulay Culkin as Kate McCallister, mother to Kevin McCallister, in the holiday films Home Alone and Home Alone 2.
While the actress enjoyed a career renaissance in her 60s following the debut of Schitt’s Creek, she had decades of experience to pull from. She began her career in Canada in the mid-70s as a writer and performer on the sketch comedy series Second City Television, which earned her the 1982 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series.
She went on to appear in a slew of Christopher Guest ensemble comedy films in the ‘00s, including Best in Show, A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration. O’Hara later appeared in the TV movie Temple Grandin in 2010, for which she received her first-ever acting nomination.
Ahead of her untimely death, O’Hara starred in the first season of the Apple TV series, The Studio, on which she played Patty Leigh, a frantic high-ranking producer at the fictional production company, Continental Pictures. She received a 2025 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on the Seth Rogen-created series.
O’Hara, who made her last public appearance in September 2025, received the final nomination of her career, Best Supporting Actress on Television at this year’s Golden Globes.
She is survived by her husband, Bo Welch, and their two adult sons, Luke and Matthew.
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