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Catherine O\u2019Hara<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0had an extraordinary career.<\/p>\n Indeed, throughout her decades-long career the Emmy Winner, who died Jan. 30 at 71, easily cemented herself as one of the most legendary comic actresses across North America.<\/p>\n Catherine got her start on television in her native Canada in the \u201970s in a variety of made for TV movies and shows. However, her star began to rise in 1977 when she joined Eugene Levy<\/strong>\u2014with whom she would frequently collaborate\u2014Joe Flaherty<\/strong>\u00a0and Harold Ramis<\/strong>\u00a0on the Emmy-winning Canadian sketch comedy series, Second City TV\u00a0(SCTV) where she flexed her comedic chops for six seasons until 1983.<\/p>\n Shortly after her stint on TV, Catherine landed the role of Delia Deetz in 1988\u2019s Beetlejuice, starring alongside Michael Keaton<\/strong>\u00a0and Wynonna Ryder<\/strong>. The following decade\u00a0Catherine became a fixture alongside <\/a>Macaulay Culkin<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0during the holiday season with her role as Kate McCallister in the Home Alone movies as well as appearing alongside her longtime pal Eugene in several of Christopher Guest<\/strong>\u2019s comedies like Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show\u00a0and A Mighty Wind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Catherine O\u2019Hara\u00a0had an extraordinary career. Indeed, throughout her decades-long career the Emmy Winner, who died Jan. 30 at 71, easily cemented herself as one of the most legendary comic actresses across North America. Catherine got her start on television in her native Canada in the \u201970s in a variety of made for TV movies and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2258887,"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":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Home-Alone-Schitts-Creek-More-Best-Roles.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258886","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=2258886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258888,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258886\/revisions\/2258888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}