Catherine O'Hara Dead at 71

https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/catherine-ohara-dead/

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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desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zone · 113 pts · 196d (12 replies)

I am so sad right now.

RaoulDuke85@piefed.social · 37 pts · 196d (7 replies)

Pretty rough day for news.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 196d (6 replies)

Why? What else happened? I'm just waking up.

RaoulDuke85@piefed.social · 39 pts · 196d (5 replies)

Trump arresting journalists.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · -57 pts · 196d (4 replies)

only a problem in shitholes.

HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 196d (1 reply)

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.

grue@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 196d

Or who live on a planet affected by e.g. the [anti-]environmental policies of said shithole.

FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 196d

Very insightful.

can@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 196d

That's very short-sighted

BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 196d (3 replies)
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desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zone · 43 pts · 196d (1 reply)

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.

BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 196d
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Nastybutler@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 196d

Most recently, The Studio on Apple TV

AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works · 95 pts · 196d (4 replies)

2026 took away from us the wrong star from Home Alone 2...

grue@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 196d

2026 took away from us the wrong star bit part cameo actor from Home Alone 2...

FTFY

Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 196d (2 replies)

There is still time.

sausager@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 196d (1 reply)

To much time. Maybe if it was Dec. 30th I'd feel better

raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 196d

Assuming someone had guaranteed that 2026 would take care of "it"...

officermike@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 196d (8 replies)

The last time one of our photogs saw Catherine was at LAX in February 2024 ... when we asked her what role she would most want to be remembered for.

Author then neglects to say what her answer was now that it is most relevant...

Hegar@fedia.io · 32 pts · 196d (7 replies)

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.

anon6789@lemmy.world · 74 pts · 196d (2 replies)

"The mother of my children." is the quote from the video.

officermike@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 196d (1 reply)

You have provided a great public service. Thank you.

anon6789@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 196d

officermike@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 196d (1 reply)

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.

Hegar@fedia.io · 2 pts · 196d

100%. I only spotted it because i read your comment before the article.

Tiger@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 196d (1 reply)

Goodness, I had to write something referencing the Taklimakan desert just a few days ago so it’s bizarre to see it mentioned.

Hegar@fedia.io · 2 pts · 196d

It was the funniest sounding desert i could remember off the top of my head.

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 50 pts · 196d (8 replies)

2026 can eat a bag of dicks

RaoulDuke85@piefed.social · 26 pts · 196d (3 replies)

It seriously can. Fuck it's still only January.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 196d

"Sorry, it's been a rough year...."

"Lemon, it's January."

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 196d (1 reply)

david bowie, alan rickman, catherine o'hara. why does january suck?

ikidd@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 196d

David Bowie died a decade ago.

PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 196d (2 replies)

Still not even February

sausager@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 196d (1 reply)

God damn.. January was 3years long

PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 196d

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...

W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 196d

ccunning@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 196d

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 36 pts · 196d

Rest in peace, she was an iconic actress, and very very funny.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 196d (1 reply)

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.

kandoh@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 196d

She could break my Christmas balls like no one else

ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 196d
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 196d

Even 71 is too early, what happened?

Hayduke@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 196d

Well that’s some bullshit right there. She was amazing.

SGGeorwell@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 196d

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!

Eldritch@piefed.world · 20 pts · 196d (2 replies)

No beetlejuice?

albbi@piefed.ca · 13 pts · 196d

Her dancing to Harry Belafonte while being possessed is one of my core memories.

alekwithak@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 196d

Nightmare Before Christmas, either. O'Hara was a huge part of my childhood :'(

Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 196d (1 reply)

I am devastated right now. If trump doesn't die this year then there is no justice in the world.

Glifted@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 196d

...oh man. I don't know how to tell you this...

MehBlah@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 196d

Well Schitt’s

peyotecosmico@programming.dev · 17 pts · 196d

Sad caw sounds

Grass@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 196d

So many names I would rather see in the headline instead

circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org · 13 pts · 196d

Damn. RIP. She was one of the comedy greats. Pretty much unmatched timing IMHO.

electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 196d

RIP funny lady.

HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 196d

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

RandomStickman@fedia.io · 9 pts · 196d

Aw man, she's great in Schitt's Creek

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 196d

❤️

Raptor_007@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 196d

What a loss. I really didn’t expect this.

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 196d

:(

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 196d

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.