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Schitt’s Creek, Home Alone star Catherine O’Hara dies at 71

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Friday, January 30, 2026

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Schitt’s Creek, Home Alone star Catherine O’Hara dies at 71
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Catherine O’Hara, a gifted Canadian comic actor and SCTV alum who starred as Macaulay Culkin’s harried mother in two Home Alone films and created the dramatically ditsy character of Moira Rose in the Emmy-winning comedy Schitt’s Creek, died on Friday. O’Hara died at her home in Los Angeles “follo...

Catherine O’Hara, a gifted Canadian comic actor and SCTV alum who starred as Macaulay Culkin’s harried mother in two Home Alone films and created the dramatically ditsy character of Moira Rose in the Emmy-winning comedy Schitt’s Creek, died on Friday. 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...

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