{"id":2258439,"date":"2026-01-30T18:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2258439"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:39:18","slug":"catherine-ohara-emmy-winning-comedian-of-schitts-creek-and-sctv-fame-dies-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/catherine-ohara-emmy-winning-comedian-of-schitts-creek-and-sctv-fame-dies-at-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine O\u2019Hara, Emmy-winning comedian of \u2018Schitt\u2019s Creek\u2019 and \u2018SCTV\u2019 fame, dies at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Catherine O’Hara, the Emmy-winning actor known for comedic roles across the decades \u2014 from Kevin’s beleaguered mom in \u201cHome Alone\u201d to the iconic Moira Rose in \u201cSchitt’s Creek\u201d \u2014 died Friday at 71.<\/p>\n

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FILE – Catherine O’Hara, a cast member in the Apple+ series “The Studio,” poses for a portrait on Thursday, March 20, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo\/Chris Pizzello, File)(Chris Pizzello\/Invision\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FILE – Catherine O’Hara, a cast member in the Apple+ series “The Studio,” poses for a portrait on Thursday, March 20, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo\/Chris Pizzello, File)(Chris Pizzello\/Invision\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Catherine O\u2019Hara, the Emmy-winning actor known for comedic roles across the decades \u2014 from Kevin\u2019s beleaguered mom in \u201cHome Alone\u201d to the iconic Moira Rose<\/a> in \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek\u201d \u2014 died Friday at 71.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Canadian-born O\u2019Hara died at her home in Los Angeles \u201cfollowing a brief illness,\u201d according to a statement from her agency, CAA. Further details were not immediately available.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Hara\u2019s career was launched at the Second City in Toronto in the in 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

O\u2019Hara\u2019s dramatic turn in HBO\u2019s \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d earned her an Emmy nomination, as did her recent role as a Hollywood producer in \u201cThe Studio.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Noveck reported from New York. AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr contributed reporting.<\/p>\n

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Catherine O’Hara, the Emmy-winning actor known for comedic roles across the decades \u2014 from Kevin’s beleaguered mom in \u201cHome Alone\u201d to the iconic Moira Rose in \u201cSchitt’s Creek\u201d \u2014 died Friday at 71. FILE – Catherine O’Hara, a cast member in the Apple+ series “The Studio,” poses for a portrait on Thursday, March 20, 2025, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2258440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[355460,394266,319030],"class_list":["post-2258439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-home-alone","tag-obit","tag-schitts-creek"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Catherine-OHara-Emmy-winning-comedian-of-\u2018Schitts-Creek-and-\u2018SCTV-fame.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258441,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258439\/revisions\/2258441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}