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O\u2019Hara died Friday at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Hara\u2019s Hollywood career spanned five decades, beginning with the Canadian sketch comedy series \u201cSecond City Television,\u201d for which she earned her first Emmy. O\u2019Hara went on to star in films such as \u201cAfter Hours,\u201d \u201cBeetlejuice<\/a>\u201d and the first two \u201cHome Alone<\/a>\u201d movies, in which she played the mother of Macaulay Culkin<\/a>\u2019s character, Kevin. O\u2019Hara maintained a close friendship with Culkin and honored him at his Walk of Fame ceremony in 2023.<\/p>\n She was a frequent collaborator of Christopher Guest<\/a>\u2019s, appearing in his mockumentary films \u201cBest in Show<\/a>,\u201d \u201cFor Your Consideration,\u201d \u201cWaiting for Guffman<\/a>\u201d and \u201cA Mighty Wind<\/a>.\u201d And she had voice roles in beloved animated features…<\/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.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Catherine O\u2019Hara, a veteran actor who starred in \u201cHome Alone,\u201d \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek\u201d and \u201cBest in Show,\u201d has died, her manager confirmed to Variety. She was 71. O\u2019Hara died Friday at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness. O\u2019Hara\u2019s Hollywood career spanned five decades, beginning with the Canadian sketch comedy series \u201cSecond City Television,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2259864,"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-2259863","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-\u2018Schitts-Creek-and-\u2018Home-Alone-Star-Dies-at.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259863","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=2259863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259865,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259863\/revisions\/2259865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2259864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}