{"id":2258484,"date":"2026-01-30T19:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2258484"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:07:12","slug":"catherine-ohara-comedy-icon-and-schitts-creek-emmy-winner-dies-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/catherine-ohara-comedy-icon-and-schitts-creek-emmy-winner-dies-at-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine O\u2019Hara, Comedy Icon and \u2018Schitt\u2019s Creek\u2019 Emmy Winner, Dies at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Catherine O\u2019Hara<\/a>, comedy icon and \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek<\/a>\u201d Emmy award-winner, has died at 71.<\/p>\n

The actress, who is also best known for starring as the mother of Macaulay Culkin<\/a>\u2019s Kevin McCallister, Kate McCallister in \u201cHome Alone<\/a>,\u201d died on Friday in Los Angeles, TheWrap<\/a> has learned.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are saddened to announce the passing of Catherine O\u2019Hara,\u201d O\u2019Hara\u2019s representation Creative Artists Agency (CAA<\/a>) shared in a statement to TheWrap. \u201cO\u2019Hara died today at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Hara was born March 4, 1954 and was raised in Canada\u2019s popular cities Toronto and Ontario. The longtime actress began her career in sketch and improvisational comedy…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Catherine O\u2019Hara, comedy icon and \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek\u201d Emmy award-winner, has died at 71. The actress, who is also best known for starring as the mother of Macaulay Culkin\u2019s Kevin McCallister, Kate McCallister in \u201cHome Alone,\u201d died on Friday in Los Angeles, TheWrap has learned. \u201cWe are saddened to announce the passing of Catherine O\u2019Hara,\u201d O\u2019Hara\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2258485,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2258484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Catherine-OHara-Comedy-Icon-and-\u2018Schitts-Creek-Emmy-Winner-Dies.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258484","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=2258484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258486,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258484\/revisions\/2258486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}