{"id":2259042,"date":"2026-01-31T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2259042"},"modified":"2026-01-31T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:10:07","slug":"catherine-ohara-remembered-in-10-indelible-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/catherine-ohara-remembered-in-10-indelible-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine O’Hara remembered in 10 indelible roles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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She portrayed a spoiled socialite turned impoverished rural motel manager in \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek.\u201d She played a self-centered stepmom who, when possessed by an evil entity, channeled Harry Belafonte\u2019s voice singing \u201cDay-O (The Banana Boat Song)\u201d in 1988\u2019s \u201cBeetlejuice.\u201d She was the harried, forgetful mom who left her son behind in \u201cHome Alone,\u201d a goofy \u201890s comedy that would become a Christmas classic.<\/p>\n

Catherine O\u2019Hara, who died Friday at the age of 71<\/a>, brought to life dozens of characters over her 50-year career across film and television, and no two of her performances were alike. She might play an eccentric artist one moment, an insufferable snob the next, then a deceptively \u201cnormal\u201d housewife, animating each with their own personality, quirks and ticks.<\/p>\n

Though a comedic performer at heart, O\u2019Hara, as they say, had range. From her recurring role as a grieving therapist in Season 2 of HBO\u2019s dystopian drama \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d to voicing and acting a plethora of bizarre characters in Tim Burton\u2018s films, O\u2019Hara made her mark. Here are 10 of her most memorable roles.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> She portrayed a spoiled socialite turned impoverished rural motel manager in \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek.\u201d She played a self-centered stepmom who, when possessed by an evil entity, channeled Harry Belafonte\u2019s voice singing \u201cDay-O (The Banana Boat Song)\u201d in 1988\u2019s \u201cBeetlejuice.\u201d She was the harried, forgetful mom who left her son behind in \u201cHome Alone,\u201d a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2259043,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2259042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Catherine-OHara-remembered-in-10-indelible-roles.com2F042F9f2Fd401e2f6499d9c8f7dc4df71.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259042","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=2259042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259044,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259042\/revisions\/2259044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2259043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}