BREAKING: Legendary actress Catherine O’Hara dead at 71

According to TMZ News, O'Hara passed away on Friday. O'Hara famously played the role of Macaulay Culkin's in Home Alone 1 as well as Home Alone 2. She has also played the role of Moira Rose in 80 episodes of Schitt's Creek.

She appeared in other notable films as well, including a mockumentary in the 2000's known as the "Best in Show," as well as "A Mighty Wind." She played a role in "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice," as well as the original "Beetlejuice."

She won an Emmy for her work on Schitt's Creek in 2020, although she was awarded her first Emmy in 1982 for the sketch comedy TV series, "SCTV Network 90."

Many fans of O'Hara posted clips from her time as an actress in reaction to her passing.

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O'Hara was born in Toronto in 1954 and is the second youngest of seven children. She made her first move in acting by portraying the Virgin Mary in the Nativity play. Her first job out of high school was being a waitress at the Second City Theater in Toronto. She was raised Catholic and graduated from Burnhamthorpe Collegiate Institute.

In 2024, she told People, “I was lucky enough to watch everybody." When she went to her first audition, Joe Flaherty told her some discouraging feedback. "Keep up the good work. Your day job, I mean: waitressing," she recalled in the interview. Next time she auditioned, the landed a spot in the company as an actress.

She was married to Bo Welch in 1992 and has two sons, Matthew and Luke. At the time of her death, she had been married to Welch for nearly 40 years. They met in 1988 before they went and built a life together.

Welch is a production designer that has worked on major Hollywood movie sets throughout his career. The two met on the set of Beetlejuice before they started dating, which was facilitated by Tim Burton. “I was grouching to Tim Burton about how this guy was talking to me all the time and never asking me out,” O'Hara told reporters at InStyle in 2018. “We had a break between filming in Los Angeles and on location, and in that time, Tim told Bo that he should ask me out."