{"id":2354005,"date":"2026-04-01T09:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2354005"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:01:37","slug":"dan-levy-remembers-catherine-ohara-2-months-after-her-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dan-levy-remembers-catherine-ohara-2-months-after-her-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Levy Remembers Catherine O&#8217;Hara 2 Months After Her Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/schitts-creek\/\"><em>Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em><\/a> alum <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/dan-levy\/\"><strong>Dan Levy<\/strong><\/a> is paying tribute to his onscreen mom, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/catherine-o-hara\/\"><strong>Catherine O\u2019Hara<\/strong><\/a>, two months after her death.<\/p>\n<p>Levy, 42, was a guest on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon\/\"><em>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/em><\/a> on Tuesday, March 31, and took a moment to remember O\u2019Hara after host <strong>Jimmy Fallon<\/strong> told him he was \u201cso sorry about the passing\u201d of the actress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, it\u2019s like a collective loss, I think,\u201d Levy <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xYjchm2Z_kk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cShe was the greatest. She\u2019s irreplaceable. I think the great comfort for me has just been to see how loved she was. The outpouring \u2026 everyone felt like they kind of knew her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fallon, 51, praised O\u2019Hara for being \u201cone of the funniest comedians I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d to which Levy responded that the actress was \u201cunbelievably talented at improvising.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/schitts-creek-cast-react-to-catherine-oharas-death-at-age-71\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/schitts-creek-cast-react-to-catherine-oharas-death-at-age-71\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Schitt&#8217;s Creek&#8217;s Emily Hampshire Reacts to Catherine O&#8217;Hara&#8217;s Death at 71<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tCatherine O\u2019Hara\u2019s Schitt\u2019s Creek costars are mourning the death of their former costar. \u201cWhat a gift to have gotten to dance in the warm glow of Catherine O\u2019Hara\u2019s brilliance for all those years,\u201d Dan Levy wrote via Instagram on Friday, January 30. \u201cHaving spent over fifty years collaborating with my Dad, Catherine was extended family [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOne of the great, great, great queens,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Hara <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/catherine-ohara-dead-the-schitts-creek-star-was-71\/\">died<\/a> in Los Angeles at age 71 on January 30 \u201cfollowing a brief illness,\u201d her talent agency, the Creative Artists Agency, said in a statement to <em>Us Weekly<\/em> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In February, TMZ reported that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/catherine-oharas-cause-of-death-revealed-after-brief-illness\/\">O\u2019Hara\u2019s primary cause of death<\/a> was a pulmonary embolism, citing an L.A. County Department of Public Health report. Rectal cancer was listed as the underlying cause, said the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Hara played Moira Rose in the hit sitcom<em> Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em> alongside Levy, who played her son David, Levy\u2019s father, <strong>Eugene Levy<\/strong>, who played Rose family patriarch Johnny Rose, and <strong>Annie Murphy<\/strong> as Moira\u2019s daughter Alexis. Levy cocreated the show with his father.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat a gift to have gotten to dance in the warm glow of Catherine O\u2019Hara\u2019s brilliance for all those years,\u201d Levy shared in a January Instagram post reacting to news of O\u2019Hara\u2019s death. \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<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWords seem inadequate to express the loss I feel today. I had the honor of knowing and working with the great Catherine O\u2019Hara for over fifty years,\u201d Eugene Levy said in a statement to <em>Us<\/em> at the time. \u201cFrom our beginnings on the Second City stage, to SCTV, to the movies we did with<strong> Chris Guest<\/strong>, to our six glorious years on <em>Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em>, I cherished our working relationship, but most of all our friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March, O\u2019Hara <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/catherine-ohara-wins-sags-2026-actor-award-1-month-after-death\/\">posthumously won<\/a> Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series for her role in Apple TV\u2019s <em>The Studio<\/em> at SAG\u2019s 2026 Actor Awards. The actress played movie studio boss-turned-producer Patty Leigh in the hit comedy, which marked one of her final roles before her death.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schitt\u2019s Creek alum Dan Levy is paying tribute to his onscreen mom, Catherine O\u2019Hara, two months after her death. Levy, 42, was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, March 31, and took a moment to remember O\u2019Hara after host Jimmy Fallon told him he was \u201cso sorry about the passing\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2354006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,24003,100241],"class_list":["post-2354005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-in-memoriam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dan-Levy-Remembers-Catherine-OHara-2-Months-After-Her-Death.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354005","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=2354005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354007,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354005\/revisions\/2354007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}