Emmy-winning actress Catherine O’Hara, who starred in “Schitt’s Creek” and “Home Alone,” has died at the age of 71, her management agency said Friday. The Canadian-born performer starred in “Beetlejuice” and recently Apple TV’s Hollywood satire show “The Studio.” Her manager Marc Gurvitz’s office confirmed the actress’s death to AFP, without any further details. Page Six, citing a fire department spokesman, reported that O’Hara was rushed to hospital before dawn from her home in the swanky Brentwood area of Los Angeles.
O’Hara was born in Toronto in 1954, where she joined the legendary comedy theater Second City, alongside Eugene Levy, with whom she would collaborate throughout her career, including on the smash TV series “Schitt’s Creek.” Her break into movies came in 1980 with “Double Negative” — also alongside Levy, and John Candy. In 1988, she played Winona Ryder’s stepmother in Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice.” She would later marry the film’s production designer Bo Welch. The couple had two sons, Matthew and Luke.
But it was in 1990 that she became widely known to a global audience, as the mother of Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin in “Home Alone.” “It’s a perfect movie, isn’t it?” she told People in 2024. “You want to be part of something good, and that’s how you go,” she said.
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