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\n <\/div><\/div>\nThe friends, former collaborators, and countless admirers of Catherine O\u2019Hara are paying public tribute to her after her death on January 30 following a brief illness<\/a>. The comic actress was an Emmy Award winner and a beloved entertainer across generations. Hollywood and beyond mourned her 50-year career, including her co-stars from Home Alone, her fellow nominees from her recent project The Studio, and longtime collaborators from what ended up being her final project, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.<\/p>\n Below, find all the celebrity tributes to the legendary Catherine O\u2019Hara.<\/p>\n Schitt\u2019s Creek co-creator Dan Levy spoke on behalf of him and his father Eugene Levy on Instagram<\/a>. \u201cWhat a gift to have gotten to dance in the warm glow of Catherine O\u2019Hara\u2019s brilliance for all those years,\u201d he wrote. \u201cHaving spent over fifty years collaborating with my Dad, Catherine was extended family before she ever played my family. It\u2019s hard to imagine a world without her in it. I will cherish every funny memory I was fortunate enough to make with her.\u201d Busy Philipps commented on his post \u201csending you and your family and her family so much love.\u201d<\/p>\n The comedians remembered the \u201csweetest angel\u201d when they raised a toast in her honor during their comedy show in Austin, Texas on Friday night. \u201cI met her when she was 18 years of age, and all these years later, she\u2019s been the greatest, most brilliant, kindest, sweetest angel that any of us worked with,\u201d Short said. \u201cGod bless her.\u201d The two raised their glasses as the audience cheered.<\/p>\n Burton, who directed O\u2019Hara in both Beetlejuice films, shared a photo of them together, alongside the cast of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. He wrote, \u201cCatherine, I love you . This picture shows how much light you gave to all of us. You were a special part of my life and after life.\u201d<\/p>\n Martin Scorsese directed Catherine O\u2019Hara in After Hours, a \u201cone bad night\u201d comedy that has achieved cult status over the years. \u201cTo lose Catherine O\u2019Hara\u2026 it feels impossible to me, and to millions of others as well, I\u2019m sure,\u201d the director said in a statement obtained by IndieWire<\/a>. His daughter, Francesca, posted a screenshot of their FaceTime when she presumably shared the news. \u201cFor me, and for most of my friends, it\u2019s SCTV: all I have to do is think about one of the characters she created, like Lola Heatherton or Dusty Towne, and I\u2019m laughing. Catherine was a true comic genius, a true artist, and a wonderful human being. I was blessed to be able to work with her on After Hours, and I\u2019m going to miss her presence and her artistry. We all are.\u201d<\/p>\n Balaban, who co-starred with O\u2019Hara in many a Christopher Guest film, said he was \u201cdevastated\u201d by her passing and praised the actress for her \u201cgift of loopiness,\u201d something he ascribed to being Canadian. \u201cCatherine O\u2019Hara had an extraordinary kindness that so many Canadians seem to have,\u201d he told Page Six<\/a>. \u201cShe also had the gift of loopiness that so many Canadian comic actors have, too \u2014 Eugene Levy, Marty Short, John Candy, for example.\u201d Balaban suspects that the Canadian loopiness and kindness both come from \u201chaving to wear a woolen hat with earflaps for too many months of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCatherine was as smart as a person can be, but never showy,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd effortlessly creative with material. She had great generosity, which she would often use to bolster another actor\u2019s performance\u2026And you have to love a person who, after they beat you at a big, big hand of poker, apologizes.\u201d<\/p>\n In an Instagram post, Keaton said he and O\u2019Hara \u201cgo back before the first Beetlejuice.\u201d He also shared his condolences with O\u2019Hara\u2019s husband, Bo Welch. \u201cShe\u2019s been my pretend wife, my pretend nemesis and my real life, true friend,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThis one hurts. Man am I gonna miss her.\u201d<\/p>\n Baldwin, who co-starred with O\u2019Hara in Beetlejuice, called the actor \u201cone of the greatest comic talents in the movie business\u201d in a statement to Page Six<\/a>. \u201cShe had a quality that was all her own and my sympathy goes out to Bo and their family,\u201d he said. His wife, Dancing With the Stars contestant Hilaria Baldwin, posted a TikTok of Baldwin and O\u2019Hara on the set of the 1988 film.<\/p>\n McKean worked with O\u2019Hara going all the way back to SCTV \u2014 a troupe that has already lost John Candy<\/a>, Joe Flaherty<\/a>, Tony Rosato<\/a>, and Harold Ramis<\/a>. \u201cOnly one Catherine O\u2019Hara, and now none. Heartbreaking,\u201d he wrote on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cCatherine\u2019s knowledge of humanity was always at the center of her comedy, no matter how absurd the character or loopy the material. She could play heartless because she was warm, brainless because she was brilliant, careless because she truly cared. Everyone loved her and everyone learned from her. This is a deep loss.\u201d<\/p>\n Catherine\u2019s knowledge of humanity was always at the center of her comedy, no matter how absurd the character or loopy the material. She could play heartless because she was warm, brainless because she was brilliant, careless because she truly cared. Everyone loved her and\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) January 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on Seth Rogen\u2019s award-winning series The Studio for playing his former boss, studio executive Patty Leigh. \u201cI told O\u2019Hara when I first met her I thought she was the funniest person I\u2019d ever had the pleasure of watching on screen,\u201d Rogen wrote in a tribute on Instagram. \u201cHome Alone was the movie that made me want to make movies. Getting to work with her was a true honour.\u201d Variety reports that season two of the series had just started filming<\/a>.<\/p>\n Macaulay Culkin starred as O\u2019Hara\u2019s son Kevin McCallister in the Home Alone films. He mourned O\u2019Hara on Instagram with side-by-side photos of them together when he was a child, then again as an adult. \u201cMama,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI thought we had time. I wanted more. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you.\u201d In the comments, he added, \u201cI\u2019m mad about this\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Actor-director Ron Howard directed O\u2019Hara in the 1994 film The Paper and wrote on X that \u201cThis is shattering news.\u201d<\/p>\n This is shattering news. What a wonderful person, artist and collaborator. I was lucky enough to direct, produce and act in projects with her and she was simply growing more brilliant with each year. My heart goes out to Bo & family. #RIPCatherineO<\/a>\u2019Hara https:\/\/t.co\/7pWcpYARai<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Ron Howard (@RealRonHoward) January 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Pedro Pascal and Catherine O\u2019Hara acted together in the second season of HBO\u2019s The Last of Us. \u201cEternally grateful,\u201d Pascal wrote on Instagram. \u201cThere is less light in my world, this lucky world that had you, will keep you, always.\u201d<\/p>\n O\u2019Hara worked with Theroux on the 2024 film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. He posted a photo of her on-set chair from that production.<\/p>\n Amy Sedaris and O\u2019Hara both voiced characters in the 2005 movie Chicken Little, but Sedaris\u2019s admiration went beyond that. \u201cCatherine O\u2019Hara was such an inspiration to me,\u201d Sedaris wrote alongside a clip of O\u2019Hara in Waiting for Guffman on Instagram. \u201cI was obsessed with her and SCTV.\u201d<\/p>\n Actor Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird) talked about loving O\u2019Hara<\/a> during press for his 2025 film The Naked Gun, then posted a tribute when she died. \u201cShe was my Meryl Streep,\u201d he wrote in his post. \u201cI could watch her in anything. Didn\u2019t matter how good or bad the film or show was. I wanted to see what she would do.\u201d<\/p>\n Rita Wilson and O\u2019Hara never worked together, though they did come up in Hollywood at similar times and knew each other. Wilson paid tribute to O\u2019Hara on Instagram. \u201cA woman who was authentic and truthful in all she did,\u201d Wilson called O\u2019Hara in her post. \u201cYou saw it in her work, if you knew her you saw it in her life, and you saw it in her family.\u201d<\/p>\n Comedian Kevin Nealon and Catherine O\u2019Hara crossed paths multiple times. In 1991, she hosted Saturday Night Live while he was still in the cast. He wrote about her on X. \u201cFrom the chaos and heart of Home Alone to the unforgettable precision of Moira Rose in Schitt\u2019s Creek, she created characters we\u2019ll rewatch again and again,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n Catherine O\u2019Hara changed how so many of us understand comedy and humanity. From the chaos and heart of Home Alone to the unforgettable precision of Moira Rose in Schitt\u2019s Creek, she created characters we\u2019ll rewatch again and again.<\/p>\n \u2014 Kevin Nealon (@kevin_nealon) January 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\nRelated<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n