Catherine O’Hara — the beloved Canadian comic actress best known for her roles in the films of Christopher Guest, the “Home Alone” movies, “Schitt’s Creek,” and many more — has died. She was 71. The news was confirmed to IndieWire by her agents at CAA. She died at her home in Los Angeles on January 30, 2026 after a brief illness.
O’Hara is survived by her husband Bo Welch and sons Matthew and Luke. The acclaimed actress was born in Toronto but died in Los Angeles, where she had lived throughout the last few decades of her career.
O’Hara was most recently seen on the big screen reprising the role of Delia Deetz in “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” the sequel to Tim Burton’s 1988 “Beetlejuice.” She also starred in Season 2 of HBO’s “The Last of Us” as a hard-drinking therapist to survivors of a zombie apocalypse and in Season 1 of “The Studio” as exiled Hollywood executive Patty Leigh.
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