30 January 2026 By beuty_space 1

‘Schitt’s Creek’ And ‘Home Alone’ Star Catherine O’Hara Has Died At 71


Perhaps the most lauded role in O’Hara’s storied career was her performance as the eccentric former soap-star matriarch Moira Rose on the CBC comedy Schitt’s Creek, in which she reunited with longtime collaborator Eugene Levy. O’Hara won dozens of awards for her interpretation of Rose, including an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a Critics’ Choice Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Canadian Screen Awards for best lead actress in a comedy series.

“For Moira, I get my hair done, I get my make-up, I get those clothes on. They make me stand differently and walk differently. I explain the voice as souvenirs from all my world travel,” O’Hara told Vulture in 2019. “I’ve taken a bit of all the people I’ve met in the world and I’m sharing it with you.”

Most recently, O’Hara starred in 2024’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Apple TV+’s award-winning comedy The Studio, as well as making a featured appearance on HBO’s The Last of Us.

She is survived by her husband, Oscar- and Emmy-nominated production designer Bo Welch (whom she met on the set of Beetlejuice and married in 1992), as well as the couple’s two sons, Matthew and Luke Welch, both of whom followed in their famous parents’ footsteps by pursuing careers in set design on productions including Schitt’s Creek and The Last of Us.