'Schitt's Creek' actor Catherine O'Hara dies at 71

Описание: (30 Jan 2026)
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Toronto – 7 September 2025
1. Catherine O'Hara at TIFF Tribute gala
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Catherine O’Hara, actor – on her late colleague John Candy:
“Dear John Candy. I wish I’d been here. I couldn’t get to see the documentary, but I cried at the trailer. I can’t wait to see the movie. My sister is in it, Mary Margaret. Did you see it?”
(Reporter: Yeah. Yeah “It’s amazing.”)
O’Hara: “Today I went to mass at the church where the funeral was and I thought of John and his mother sitting in the first pew. Honored. Honored to be here. Honored to have known him.”

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Venice, Italy - 28 August 2024
3. (L-R) Catherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega posing together at "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" Venice premiere
4. Various O'Hara posing

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Venice, Italy - 28 August 2024
5. Catherine O'Hara at the 81st Venice Film Festival
STORYLINE:
Catherine O'Hara, the Emmy-winning actor known for comedic roles across the decades — from Kevin's beleaguered mom in “Home Alone” to the iconic Moira Rose in “Schitt's Creek” — died Friday at 71.

The Canadian-born O'Hara died at her home in Los Angeles “following a brief illness,” according to a statement from her agency, Creative Artists Agency. Further details were not immediately available.

O’Hara’s career was launched at the Second City in Toronto in the in 1970s. It was there that she first worked with Eugene Levy, who would become a lifelong collaborator — and her “Schitt’s Creek” costar. The two would be among the original cast of the sketch show “SCTV,” which would help launch the careers of other top Canadian comedians, like Martin Short and Andrea Martin.

O'Hara's dramatic turn in HBO's “The Last of Us” earned her an Emmy nomination, as did her recent role as a Hollywood producer in “The Studio.”

She is survived by her husband, Bo Welch, and sons Matthew and Luke.

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