Catherine O'Hara (Home Alone Schitts Creek) has died

[Crimson Dynamo]

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Just 71

[Cherie]

Actress Catherine O'Hara, who appeared in Schitt's Creek and Home Alone has died aged 71, according to reports.

The legendary Hollywood actress died on Friday, two sources with direct knowledge told TMZ, who first reported the news.

The cause of her death is unclear, the report said.

This is a breaking news story and is being updated.

That is devastating, always hoped Shitts Creek would return


RIP Moira Rose

Evening Standard

[Niamh.]

Ah was just about to post a thread. Devestated, Moira Rose is one of my all time favourite characters :(

[Parmy]

Actress Catherine O'Hara, who appeared in Schitt's Creek and Home Alone has died aged 71, according to reports.

The legendary Hollywood actress died on Friday, two sources with direct knowledge told TMZ, who first reported the news.

The cause of her death is unclear, the report said.

This is a breaking news story and is being updated.

That is devastating, always hoped Shitts Creek would return


RIP Moira Rose

Evening Standard



Must be murder then.

[bots]

great actress

[Ammi]

…honestly devastated, such an endearing character actress…


O’Hara died on Friday (January 30) at her home in Los Angeles following a "brief illness", her agency, CAA, said in a statement.

At the time of writing, no further details have been released.

[Niamh.]

…honestly devastated, such an endearing character actress…





O’Hara died on Friday (January 30) at her home in Los Angeles following a "brief illness", her agency, CAA, said in a statement.



At the time of writing, no further details have been released.Me too. I need a sad rewatch of Schitts Creek now :(

[Ammi]

…she indeed was ‘a beautiful thing’…


…life wisdom and advise/Moira Rose style…:love:…

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[Ammi]

Me too. I need a sad rewatch of Schitts Creek now :(

…I’m all in for that re-watch also…:love:…

[Shaun]

:sad:

[Redway]

Bless her, in the grave and beyond. RIP.

[Benjamin]

Nooooooooo. She was a legend. :bawling:

Not many celeb deaths make me that sad, but this one does.

[Ray.]

One of the best comic actresses ever. Really quite shocked at this. R.I.P.

[Benjamin]

Me too. I need a sad rewatch of Schitts Creek now :(

…I’m all in for that re-watch also…:love:…

Mr Wales and I just said this too. One of the greatest shows ever created.

[Niamh.]

Mr Wales and I just said this too. One of the greatest shows ever created.It really is, all the characters are great but Moira was just another level, so hilarious and unique

[Benjamin]

It really is, all the characters are great but Moira was just another level, so hilarious and unique

One of the greatest characters to have ever graced television. She was so bloody amazing in that role.

[Livia]

Truly sorry to read this. Never watched Schitt's Creek but loved her in Home Alone and Beetlejuice.

[Niamh.]

One of the greatest characters to have ever graced television. She was so bloody amazing in that role.Yep and she made her who she was, the accent and adding in the fancy, unusual words was all Catherine's input

[Niamh.]

Truly sorry to read this. Never watched Schitt's Creek but loved her in Home Alone and Beetlejuice.You really really should give Schitts Creek a go. Such a brilliant show (just give it a few episodes, you will be hooked)

[Benjamin]

Truly sorry to read this. Never watched Schitt's Creek but loved her in Home Alone and Beetlejuice.

It’s honestly such a great show. Give it a watch sometime, you won’t regret it.

[Benjamin]

Yep and she made her who she was, the accent and adding in the fancy, unusual words was all Catherine's input

This means defo no reboot or one off special now. :bawling:

[Niamh.]

This means defo no reboot or one off special now. :bawling:It wouldnt be right without her

[Glenn.]

Just put Schitts Creek on and see this! So sad.

Rest in Peace :love:

[Benjamin]

It wouldnt be right without her

God no. I don’t think they’d do it without her tbh.

[Niamh.]

God no. I don’t think they’d do it without her tbh.

Nah, I dont so

[Glenn.]

It can’t be done without her.

[Ray.]

Wonder if this'll permanently put the kibosh on a Beetlejuice 3, too. I mean Keaton and Burton have never sounded particularly keen on it like they did in the interceding years between 1 and 2 anyway. Though O'Hara's character at least now has the excuse of having gotten on the 'soul train' and ascended, should they still wish to carry on.

[LaLaLand]

One of my favourite actresses. Loved her in everything I saw her in.

RIP legend.

[Livia]

You really really should give Schitts Creek a go. Such a brilliant show (just give it a few episodes, you will be hooked)

It’s honestly such a great show. Give it a watch sometime, you won’t regret it.

As it's so highly recommended I will give it a go.

[Cherie]

I had forgotten she was also in 'The last of us'

[Strictly Jake]

I only just read this and did a massive gasp!!! Im shocked

[Strictly Jake]

Tell you what the end of home alone when they have a huge hug is gonna be super sad every time now. Like when I watch hook and Robin Williams says to die would be an awfully big adventure I weep every time

[arista]

Top Actress

She will be missed

[GoldHeart]

Awww no

R.I.P.

Home Alone & Beetlejuice are classics . I started watching the first 2 episodes of Schitts Creek a while ago. I'll have to go back to it .

[Jordan.]

Such an icon, I hated to hear this news </3

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[LaLaLand]

Recommended watch for anyone who hasn’t seen it - Martin Scorsese’s wild nightmarish caper “After Hours”. An underrated classic that she’s just wonderful in too. :love:

[Maru]

She didn't seem like she was in great health so glad she has moved beyond that at least

[Mystic Mock]

Like Livia I am more familiar with her from Home Alone (which I thought that she was really good in that role tbh) but I know that she brought joy to millions of Schitt's Creek fans over the years.

RIP, and my condolences to her family.

[Mystic Mock]

Tell you what the end of home alone when they have a huge hug is gonna be super sad every time now. Like when I watch hook and Robin Williams says to die would be an awfully big adventure I weep every time

I still say with Robin Williams that he was mad underrated in Night At The Museum.

He did admittedly have some sad dialogue in hindsight though.

[Maru]

The unbearably tragic truth about Catherine O'Hara's sudden death
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15514713/Catherine-OHara-death-truth-MAUREEN-CALLAHAN.html

We've lost another true original.

Catherine O'Hara's death on Friday morning, at age 71, comes as a shock.

She was rare among Hollywood stars: A comedic genius whose indelible work spanned generations — and who, notably, seemed kind.

Most people who are professionally funny — not all, but most — are obviously animated by anger, self-loathing or unhappiness.

Not O'Hara. She always seemed to sparkle. She reveled in being a professional kook.

'When in doubt,' she told The New Yorker in 2019, 'play insane.'

In real life, she was anything but. The tributes pouring in attest to that.

Michael Keaton, who starred alongside O'Hara in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice, wrote on Instagram: 'She's been my pretend wife, my pretend nemesis and my real life, true friend. This one hurts. Man am I gonna miss her.'

Pedro Pascal, who worked with O'Hara on The Last of Us, posted: 'There is less light in my world, this lucky world that had you, will keep you, always. Always.'

Actress Rita Wilson: 'Catherine O'Hara — a woman who was authentic and truthful in all she did.'

Craig Mazin, writer and producer of The Last of Us: 'It all hurts terribly. Goodbye, you legend… you wonderful, brilliant, kind, beautiful human being. We were lucky to have had you at all.'

As much as Hollywood is given to hyperbole, this all feels genuine. O'Hara was, indeed, special.

Born on March 4, 1954 in Toronto, she was one of seven children. 'Being funny was highly encouraged in our family,' she told The New Yorker. 'I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly. Or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it.'

O'Hara began making her name as part of SCTV, the Second City Television sketch show in Canada, before her breakout came opposite Keaton in Tim Burton's phantasmagorical 1988 comedy Beetlejuice.

But it was her role as Macaulay Culkin's mom in the 1990 blockbuster Home Alone — a mother, of course, who forgets she left her 8-year-old, Kevin, back at home while jetting to Paris with the rest of her family — that made O'Hara a household name.

Culkin himself took to Instagram to mourn his on-screen mother.

'Mama,' he wrote, next to a still from the original movie of him in character with O'Hara and another, more recent photo of them together. 'I thought we had time… I love you.'

A lesser actress wouldn't have been able to make an audience fall in love with her, let alone forgive her for leaving her small son at home, at Christmas, to fend off two burglars. Such was O'Hara's unique gift.

She returned to her improv roots for a series of films with Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, starring as unhinged characters in the mockumentaries Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration.

'I think there's a bit of the sameness in a lot of the characters I do,' O'Hara told Vulture in 2019. 'I think there's a lot of… insecure delusional [sic]. And I say this a lot, but I love playing people who have no real sense of the impression they're making on anyone else.'

It was her unforgettable Moira Rose, the dispossessed aging actress-wife-mother on Schitt's Creek, that was O'Hara's crowning achievement.

No one had ever seen a character like Moira before: a woman dressed to the nines in a rural backwater, a snob with heart and an accent of indeterminate origin rivaled, in oddness, only by the various and sundry wigs hanging from her motel room wall — Moira's scalps, as it were.

'I had no idea that anyone else would care,' O'Hara said in 2020. 'I said, 'Can I wear different wigs all the time?' and they said, 'Yes!'

Moira's increasingly zany, dated wigs became the show's standout running gag.

O'Hara took inspiration from none other than heiress and one-time Alexander McQueen muse Daphne Guinness for Moira's look.

Sarah Jessica Parker could never.

Would-be comic actors such as Parker — who just accepted the Carol Burnett Award for 'her outstanding contributions to television' — are mere supporting players compared to the outsize genius of Catherine O'Hara.

O'Hara never sacrificed a laugh for vanity. She didn't take herself seriously. She didn't merchandise her husband, their two sons or her home life.

And unlike younger female comics such as Amy Schumer, Nikki Glaser or Lena Dunham, O'Hara never degraded herself or her physical appearance to get cheap laughs.

Perhaps because O'Hara knew, unlike the perpetually gushing, preening, needy Parkers and Dunhams of the world, that she was the real deal.

Moira Rose was O'Hara's creation from the ground up. She told The New Yorker about pitching Moira's look to father-and-son show creators Eugene and Dan Levy.

'[Guinness's] wardrobe, it's just so great and extreme,' she told The New Yorker. 'It's strong and it's armor, which is perfect when you've had your life ripped out from under you, like Moira, and you're in this place that's like the town you got out of earlier in life.'

O'Hara located Moira's heart: a woman who had worked so hard, only to find herself returned to her humble beginnings — and yet refused, in her inimitable, humorous way, to be dragged back down.

Sarah Jessica Parker, who refuses to abandon the character she's been playing for nearly 30 years, could learn a lot.

'Moira just has so much to show, she believes, but doesn't know quite what that is yet,' O'Hara told Vulture. 'And if you can externally present different versions of yourself with the help of great wigs and wardrobe, then it boosts your confidence. I have more to me, too. I can be different. I can still grow.'

What a lesson in being a great artist, a great comedienne, and more importantly, a good person.

[Ammi]

…^^^^…that’s such a bad DM headline that makes it sound as though it’s revealing details about her death which it isn’t at all …

…a beautiful tribute from Michael Buble…

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[Ammi]

…a tribute from Seth Rogan, they worked together on The Studio series…

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[Ammi]

…I hadn’t realised that Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy had been good friends for over 40 years and that she was so close to the Levy family…they performed this together at the 76th Academy Awards in 2004…A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow…:love:…

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[Ammi]

…John Heard who played Peter McAllister to Catherine O’Hara’s Kate McAllister in Home Alone 1 and 2 also died at 71yrs old…he was recovering from a relatively minor surgery when he suffered a fatal heart attack…

[Maru]

…^^^^…that’s such a bad DM headline that makes it sound as though it’s revealing details about her death which it isn’t at all …

Yeah it's behind a paywall and all their paywalled content is mislabeled like that. Fun, isn't it?

[Niamh.]

The unbearably tragic truth about Catherine O'Hara's sudden death

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15514713/Catherine-OHara-death-truth-MAUREEN-CALLAHAN.html

I don't like how the writer feels the need to put down other women to praise Catherine O'Hara. Not at all necessary or kind which is how Catherine is described

[Ammi]

I don't like how the writer feels the need to put down other women to praise Catherine O'Hara. Not at all necessary or kind which is how Catherine is described

…and also that the writer is herself a female and feels the need to depreciate other females when the article is only about the death of Catherine and the person she was so no one else needed to be mentioned in any unfavourable terms…

[Niamh.]

…and also that the writer is herself a female and feels the need to depreciate other females when the article is only about the death of Catherine and the person she was so no one else needed to be mentioned in any unfavourable terms…I didnt even notice that it was a woman wrote it, makes it even worse imo

[Livia]

I don't like how the writer feels the need to put down other women to praise Catherine O'Hara. Not at all necessary or kind which is how Catherine is described

I thought this too... Strange to build up someone by knocking down someone else. I do think all the starry tributes I've read from celebrities sound, for a change, quite genuine.

[GoldHeart]

…a tribute from Seth Rogan, they worked together on The Studio series…

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Maculay Culkin did a nice lovely tribute as well :love: .

[Ammi]

New details have emerged surrounding the death of Catherine O'Hara after she passed away aged 71 on Friday, January 30.

The Schitt's Creek actress, whose co-stars issued touching tributes to her on Friday, was rushed to the hospital after first responders were called to her Brentwood, Los Angeles, home around 5 a.m.

According to 911 dispatch audio obtained by Page Six, Catherine was having "difficulty breathing" before she was transported to a nearby hospital in a "serious condition."


"At 4:48 am we responded to a request for medical aid to that address and transported an approximately 70-year-old female in serious condition," the Los Angeles Fire Department said in a statement.

Catherine passed away hours later. While her cause of death has not yet been revealed, her manager confirmed to HELLO! that she died following a "brief illness."

A private celebration of life will be held by the family, including her husband, production designer Bo Welch, and their two sons: Matthew (b. 1994) and Luke (b. 1997).

[arista]

[was having "difficulty breathing" before she was transported
to a nearby hospital in a "serious condition."]


Yes terrible way to end up, dead

[Tony Montana]

Damn. RIP to a fine and underrated actress. Watching Home Alone 1 and 2 won't be the same again.

[Vicky.]

Ah she was bloody brilliant in schitts creek

[Cherie]

Might be covid related

[Ammi]

Catherine O'Hara, who died Jan. 30 at 71, previously shared that her heart and organs were on the wrong side of her body, a rare condition called dextrocardia with situs inversus.

While a person can live their whole life without even knowing they have situs inversus, it can cause complications, especially when the heart is involved.

[arista]

Real Sad
Ammi

[Ammi]

"Words seem inadequate to express the loss I feel today," Eugene Levy said as tributes continued to pour in for Catherine O'Hara, who has died aged 71.

The Canadian-born actress, who won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for playing Moira Rose in Schitt’s Creek, died on Friday at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness, according to her representatives.

Levy, who worked alongside O’Hara for decades, said he had the honour of knowing and working with her for more than 50 years. He described her as an extended family member and said he would miss her deeply.

His son and Schitt’s Creek co-creator Dan Levy also paid tribute, writing that O’Hara was "family before she ever played my family".

"What a gift to have gotten to dance in the warm glow of Catherine O’Hara’s brilliance for all those years," he wrote, adding: "It’s hard to imagine a world without her in it."

[Crimson Dynamo]

very very few people have a graceful death, sadly

[BBXX]

This has made me very sad. Home Alone is one of my favourite movies (1 & 2) and has been since I was a child. I watch them multiple times every Christmas.

[Niamh.]

This has made me very sad. Home Alone is one of my favourite movies (1 & 2) and has been since I was a child. I watch them multiple times every Christmas.Did you watch Schitts Creek?

[Maru]

I don't like how the writer feels the need to put down other women to praise Catherine O'Hara. Not at all necessary or kind which is how Catherine is described

Yeah, I shared it because I was curious what others thought. I didn't understand why there was so much name dropping, but self-soothing for whatever reason came to mind.

[Ammi]

…I started a Schitt’s Creek re-watch yesterday…obviously I’m watching through different eyes as so many moments won’t feel the same and it’s going to feel such an emotional watch… but the smiles will be there also…

[Ammi]

This has made me very sad. Home Alone is one of my favourite movies (1 & 2) and has been since I was a child. I watch them multiple times every Christmas.

…you’ll honestly love Schitt’s Creek if you have time to watch it…the characters are genius and the character progression through the series is the best I’ve seen really, of any series…all of those wealthy celebrity dynasty families like the Kardashian’s and the Beckhams etc need to lose all of their wealth and go to live in Schitt’s Creek for a few years…

[caprimint]

So sad, she was great in Home Alone. RIP Catherine :sad:

[Benjamin]

This came up on my insta. It got me good. :(

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[Ammi]

This came up on my insta. It got me good. :(

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…AI is awful, rather than evoke emotion, it takes all of the emotion out of everything for me…

[Ammi]

it was announced on February 9 that Catherine's cause of death was a blood clot in the lungs. TMZ was the first to break the news that per an official death certificate from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office, a pulmonary embolism was listed as the immediate cause, with rectal cancer as the underlying reason.


https://uk.yahoo.com/news/catherine-oharas-tragic-cause-death-195939815.html

[Maru]

4th most deadly cancer for women, 3rd for men