Catherine O'Hara Dead at 71
Catherine O'Hara -- famous for her work in "Schitt's Creek," "Home Alone," and "Best In Show" -- is dead ... TMZ has learned.
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I am so sad right now.
Pretty rough day for news.
Why? What else happened? I'm just waking up.
Trump arresting journalists.
only a problem in shitholes.
Or for people who live next to shitholes. Or have any natural resources that people who live in shitholes want. Or live anywhere where an elected representative has hurt the ego of the shithole in chief.
Or who live on a planet affected by e.g. the [anti-]environmental policies of said shithole.
Very insightful.
That's very short-sighted
SCTV, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind, Beetlejuice, oh, so many...and cartoon voices, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Committed. She was everywhere and I can assuredely say, welcome.
Most recently, The Studio on Apple TV
2026 took away from us the wrong star from Home Alone 2...
FTFY
There is still time.
To much time. Maybe if it was Dec. 30th I'd feel better
Assuming someone had guaranteed that 2026 would take care of "it"...
Author then neglects to say what her answer was now that it is most relevant...
Im guessing the answer is in the video above that paragraph, so we'll never know.
If you're putting info in a video in a news article, you may as well bury it beneath the sands of the taklamakan desert.
"The mother of my children." is the quote from the video.
You have provided a great public service. Thank you.
Couldn't have even told you there was a video on the page. I mostly browse the news while I'm at work, avoiding doing work. I have trained myself to ignore videos on news articles because I can't have the sound on. So yeah, info in a video embedded on a news site doesn't exist for me.
100%. I only spotted it because i read your comment before the article.
Goodness, I had to write something referencing the Taklimakan desert just a few days ago so it’s bizarre to see it mentioned.
It was the funniest sounding desert i could remember off the top of my head.
2026 can eat a bag of dicks
It seriously can. Fuck it's still only January.
"Sorry, it's been a rough year...."
"Lemon, it's January."
david bowie, alan rickman, catherine o'hara. why does january suck?
David Bowie died a decade ago.
Still not even February
God damn.. January was 3years long
I've been waking up every morning for work (I work outside mostly) seeing the weather station start with a -2X Celsius for what feels like 3 weeks now.
My body is so exhausted...
Rest in peace, she was an iconic actress, and very very funny.
Catherine famously played Macaulay Culkin's mother in the first two 'Home Alone' movies ... and she appeared as Moira Rose in 80 episodes of "Schitt's Creek."
Other notable movie credits include a couple mockumentaries in 2000's "Best in Show," and 2003's "A Mighty Wind" ... plus "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" and the OG "Beetlejuice."
How fucking ignorant is TMZ. She was famous way before that for SCTV. The irreplacable Lola Heatherton.
She could break my Christmas balls like no one else
Even 71 is too early, what happened?
Well that’s some bullshit right there. She was amazing.
This is very sad news. She was great in every role.
“Oh they’re comin.’ Oh they’re comin.’ And watch out they got a lot of kids!”
I am devastated right now. If trump doesn't die this year then there is no justice in the world.
...oh man. I don't know how to tell you this...
No beetlejuice?
Her dancing to Harry Belafonte while being possessed is one of my core memories.
Nightmare Before Christmas, either. O'Hara was a huge part of my childhood :'(
Well Schitt’s
Sad caw sounds
So many names I would rather see in the headline instead
Damn. RIP. She was one of the comedy greats. Pretty much unmatched timing IMHO.
Aw man, she's great in Schitt's Creek
RIP funny lady.
Absolutely brutal. Felt ill when I read it. The unexpectedness of it makes it so much worse I think.
Actually devastated that Schitts Creek is now forever done. Thought maybe we would get a movie.
I think it's obvious she was widely loved and appreciated...I can imagine the particukar pain the Levys are feeling right now, besides her family obviously
❤️
What a loss. I really didn’t expect this.
:(
I did a bit when I told my mom the news but she didn't appreciate the humor.
I'd like to think Ms. O'hara would though.