{"id":2258994,"date":"2026-01-30T23:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2258994"},"modified":"2026-01-30T23:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:36:22","slug":"catherine-oharas-five-most-iconic-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/catherine-oharas-five-most-iconic-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine O&#8217;Hara&#8217;s five most iconic roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"rebellt-item&#10;        &#10;        &#10;        &#10;        col1\" id=\"rebelltitem1\" data-id=\"1\" data-reload-ads=\"false\" data-is-image=\"False\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/celebs\/catherine-o-haras-iconic-roles#rebelltitem1\" data-basename=\"particle-1\" data-post-id=\"2675063910\" data-published-at=\"1769813147\" data-use-pagination=\"False\">\n<p>Catherine O\u2019Hara, who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/arts-entertainment\/catherine-o-hara\" target=\"_blank\">died Friday at age 71,<\/a> was beloved by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pride.com\/lgbtq\/\" target=\"_blank\">LGBTQ<\/a>+ audiences for many roles over her long career. Here we look at her five (arguably) most iconic ones. In addition to these, you might want to check out her performances as the forgetful mom in the Home Alone franchise, as a hostile Mr. Softee driver in Martin Scorsese\u2019s urban nightmare comedy After Hours, and as a variety of characters on SCTV.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rebellt-item&#10;        &#10;        &#10;        &#10;        col1\" id=\"rebelltitem2\" data-id=\"2\" data-reload-ads=\"false\" data-is-image=\"False\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/celebs\/catherine-o-haras-iconic-roles#rebelltitem2\" data-basename=\"schitt-s-creek-2015-2020\" data-post-id=\"2675063910\" data-published-at=\"1769813147\" data-use-pagination=\"False\">\n<h2 data-role=\"headline\">\n<p>                &#8220;Schitt&#8217;s Creek,&#8221; 2015-2020<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"bb33711e021170e01c854668348f2aa3\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Schitt&#039;s Creek - Moira&#039;s Most Iconic Moments From All Six Seasons\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7TMrciKhhkk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For six seasons, O\u2019Hara played Moira Rose, an aging actress and matriarch of a once-wealthy family who, having lost all their money, relocate to a small-town motel in the hit series <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/tag\/schitts-creek\" target=\"_blank\">Schitt&#8217;s Creek. <\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/tag\/schitts-creek\"> <\/a>She \u201cdelivered razor-edged one-liners dripping with SAT vocabulary words while sporting couture and any number of the \u2018gals\u2019 from her infamous wig wall,\u201d Tracy E. Gilchrist wrote in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/television\/2020\/4\/10\/catherine-ohara-moira-quarantine-schitts-creeks-gay-love\" target=\"_blank\">The Advocate<\/a> in 2020. In the series finale that year, she dressed as the pope to officiate the marriage of her son, David (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/out-exclusives\/dan-levys-good-grief\">Dan Levy<\/a>, the son of Eugene Levy, who played Moira&#8217;s husband), and Patrick (Noah Reid).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/television\/2020\/3\/25\/threesomes-marriage-kids-schitts-creek-depicts-modern-gay-couple\" target=\"_blank\">Threesomes, Marriage, Kids: Schitt&#8217;s Creek Depicts a Modern Gay Couple<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/news\/eugene-levy-schitts-creek-pride\" target=\"_blank\">Eugene Levy reflects on fatherhood with a gay son, Schitt\u2019s Creek, and strategic allyship<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rebellt-item&#10;        &#10;        &#10;        &#10;        col1\" id=\"rebelltitem3\" data-id=\"3\" data-reload-ads=\"true\" data-is-image=\"False\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/celebs\/catherine-o-haras-iconic-roles#rebelltitem3\" data-basename=\"beetlejuice-1988\" data-post-id=\"2675063910\" data-published-at=\"1769813147\" data-use-pagination=\"False\">\n<h2 data-role=\"headline\">\n<p>                &#8220;Beetlejuice,&#8221;\u00a01988<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"e68cb3e71719c14f7840c40858f2e28e\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Delia Deetz\u2019s (Catherine O\u2019Hara) Crazy About Interior Design | Beetlejuice | TBS\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wl1kjzh4ZBA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Beetlejuice, O\u2019Hara is Delia Deetz, an obnoxious woman who moves with her husband (Jeffrey Jones) and daughter (Winona Ryder) into a charming New England home occupied by the ghosts of its former owners, the Maitlands (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin). Delia redecorates the house in supremely poor taste, swapping out a flowered sofa for one constructed of boilerplate and pony hide, and she and her family generally annoy the heck out of the ghosts. The Maitlands call in Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) to scare off the Deetzes. O\u2019Hara reprised the role in 2024\u2019s sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rebellt-item&#10;        &#10;        &#10;        &#10;        col1\" id=\"rebelltitem4\" data-id=\"4\" data-reload-ads=\"false\" data-is-image=\"False\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/celebs\/catherine-o-haras-iconic-roles#rebelltitem4\" data-basename=\"waiting-for-guffman-1996\" data-post-id=\"2675063910\" data-published-at=\"1769813147\" data-use-pagination=\"False\">\n<h2 data-role=\"headline\">\n<p>                &#8220;Waiting for Guffman,&#8221; 1996<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"5aa801d8166668f72aa34c1c7e0f680b\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Midnight at the Oasis - Waiting for Guffman HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fggXs7oIP7Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Hara was a key member of actor-director Christopher Guest\u2019s stock company for his mockumentaries. In Waiting for Guffman, she and Fred Willard play travel agents who\u2019ve never left the small town of Blaine, Missouri. They audition for community theater director Corky St. Clair (Guest) for a pageant to celebrate the town\u2019s 150<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary with a hilariously bad rendition of \u201cMidnight at the Oasis.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rebellt-item&#10;        &#10;        &#10;        &#10;        col1\" id=\"rebelltitem5\" data-id=\"5\" data-reload-ads=\"true\" data-is-image=\"False\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/celebs\/catherine-o-haras-iconic-roles#rebelltitem5\" data-basename=\"best-in-show-2000\" data-post-id=\"2675063910\" data-published-at=\"1769813147\" data-use-pagination=\"False\">\n<h2 data-role=\"headline\">\n<p>                &#8220;Best in Show,&#8221; 2000<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"19e872312a454c1caf30915d4287f684\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Best in Show   Cookie Guggleman and Malcolm\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2rIHEN--t0I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Before Schitt\u2019s Creek, O\u2019Hara and Eugene Levy played a married couple in Best in Show, Guest\u2019s mockumentary about dog shows and the quirky people who bring their canines to compete. At the show in the film, O\u2019Hara\u2019s character, Cookie Fleck, encounters many past lovers, all to the surprise of her husband, Gerry (Levy).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rebellt-item&#10;        &#10;        &#10;        &#10;        col1\" id=\"rebelltitem6\" data-id=\"6\" data-reload-ads=\"false\" data-is-image=\"False\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/celebs\/catherine-o-haras-iconic-roles#rebelltitem6\" data-basename=\"a-mighty-wind-2003\" data-post-id=\"2675063910\" data-published-at=\"1769813147\" data-use-pagination=\"False\">\n<h2 data-role=\"headline\">\n<p>                &#8220;A Mighty Wind,&#8221; 2003<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"a20b6be98704ab0ac958339cc25d507d\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mitch &amp; Mickey - A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QwLZfPPM7GQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Hara and Levy were together again in Guest\u2019s A Mighty Wind, a mockumentary about a reunion of folk groups from the 1960s. O\u2019Hara is Mickey Crabbe, half of the duo Mitch and Mickey, and Levy\u2019s Mitch still has a broken heart over Mickey not returning his love. \u201cA Mighty Wind is glutted with inspired details \u2026 but it all boils down to Mitch and Mickey, whose culminating performance onstage verges on the transcendent,\u201d Michael Atkinson wrote in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/taking-wing\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Village Voice.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.out.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine O\u2019Hara, who died Friday at age 71, was beloved by LGBTQ+ audiences for many roles over her long career. Here we look at her five (arguably) most iconic ones. In addition to these, you might want to check out her performances as the forgetful mom in the Home Alone franchise, as a hostile Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2258995,"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":[437476,352631,437462,351538,350182,437395,61534,21799,437477,354239,362676,437382,319030,22205,437478],"class_list":["post-2258994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-a-mighty-wind","tag-beetlejuice","tag-best-in-show","tag-catherine-ohara","tag-christopher-guest","tag-delia-deetz","tag-eugene-levy","tag-film","tag-fred-willard","tag-michael-keaton","tag-mockumentary","tag-moira-rose","tag-schitts-creek","tag-television","tag-waiting-for-guffman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Catherine-OHaras-five-most-iconic-roles.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258994","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=2258994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258996,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258994\/revisions\/2258996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}