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Actress Known For ‘Schitt’s Creek’, ‘Home Alone’ Dies at 71

by Sandra Rhodes
January 30, 2026 at 1:44 pm
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Actress Known For ‘Schitt’s Creek’, ‘Home Alone’ Dies at 71

US-Canadian actress Catherine O'Hara arrives for Apple TV+'s Primetime Emmy Party in West Hollywood, California, on September 14, 2025. (Photo by Michael Tran / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Catherine O’Hara — known for her work in “Schitt’s Creek,” “Home Alone,” and “Best In Show” — has died, TMZ reported.

O’Hara died Friday, according to two sources. The cause of death was not immediately available.

O’Hara played the mother in the first two “Home Alone” movies and portrayed Moira Rose in “Schitt’s Creek.”

She also had roles in the mockumentaries “Best in Show,” and “A Mighty Wind” and also starred in “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” and the “Beetlejuice.”

Most recently, she worked with Seth Rogen in the Apple TV+ series, “The Studio.” She earned an Emmy nomination for her work.

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She won an Emmy Award for her work in “Schitt’s Creek” in 2020.

She received her first Emmy in 1982 for her writing contributions to the sketch comedy TV series, “SCTV Network 90.”

Catherine was born and raised in Toronto. She met her husband, production designer Bo Welch, on the set of “Beetlejuice.”

They got married in 1992 and had two sons, Matthew and Luke.

O’Hara was 71.

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IJR, Contributor Writer She was a Story Editor for Indpendent Journal Review since November 2022 and has written for IJR since February 2024. She has been in the newspaper business in various capacities since 1998.

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