Catherine O’Hara, the beloved comedic actress, died on Friday following a brief illness, her manager confirmed to Yahoo. She was 71.
O’Hara was known for her film roles in Beetlejuice, Home Alone and Best in Show, and more recently on the Netflix series Schitt’s Creek, alongside her longtime friend and collaborator, Eugene Levy.
Both O’Hara and Levy met at the Second City improv and sketch theater in Toronto, where she was born. Levy was born in nearby Hamilton. They were part of the original cast of SCTV, a Canadian sketch comedy show about a fictional television station, which ran from 1976 to 1984.
“SCTV” cast members John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O’Hara, Dave Thomas and Eugene Levy in 1976.
(Everett Collection)
O’Hara’s big-screen breakthrough came in 1988, when she appeared in Tim Burton’s gothic horror comedy Beetlejuice alongside Michael Keaton.
Catherine O’Hara as Delia Deetz in “Beetlejuice,” 1988.
(Warner Bros./Everett Collection)
She went on to star in Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York two years later. O’Hara also provided her voice to Burton’s A Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are (2009).
Catherine O’Hara and Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone, 1990.
(20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection)
Also read: 10 great Catherine O’Hara performances, from ‘Home Alone’ to ‘Schitt’s Creek’
Catherine O’Hara as Sally in “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” 1993.
(Buena Vista Pictures/Everett Collection)
O’Hara and Levy reunited onscreen in four of actor-director Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries: Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003) and For Your Consideration (2006).
Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara in “Best in Show,” 2000.
(Warner Bros./Everett Collection)
Catherine O’Hara and Fred Willard in “Waiting for Guffman,” 1996.
(Sony Pictures Classics/Everett Collection)
Catherine O’Hara in “A Mighty Wind,” 2003.
(Warner Brothers/Everett Collection)
They teamed up again on Schitt’s Creek, which ran for six seasons from 2015 to 2020. In 2019, O’Hara won her first Emmy Award for acting for her work on the show.
O’Hara appeared in the Beetlejuice sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, in 2024. She starred in HBO’s post-apocalyptic drama The Last of Us (for which she was nominated for an Emmy) and in Apple TV’s The Studio, earning both Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
O’Hara as Delia Deetz in “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice,” 2024.
(Warner Bros./Everett Collection)
O’Hara as Moira Rose in “Schitt’s Creek,” 2019.
(Steve Wilkie/CBC/POP/Everett Collection)
O’Hara and Seth Rogen in “The Studio,” 2025
(Apple TV+/Everett Collection)
‘ The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties ’
‘ Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com ’
