Catherine O’Hara, an actress who starred in legendary films “Beetlejuice” and “Home Alone” before taking a star turn as Moira Rose on the sitcom “Schitt’s Creek,” died Friday at the age of 71.
A statement from CAA, the agency that represented O’Hara, said she died at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness.
After the success of “Home Alone” in 1990, O’Hara turned to collaborating with director Christopher Guest, starring in many of his iconic mockumentaries, including “Waiting for Guffman” (1996) and “Best in Show” (2000).
In those films, O’Hara worked often alongside Eugene Levy, becoming a signature duo who went on to co-star in the acclaimed “Schitt’s Creek” together. As wayward posh actress Moira Rose, O’Hara’s one-liners were meme gold and earned her critical praise. O’Hara won an Emmy in 2020, and in her she thanked creators Eugene and Dan Levy for “bestowing me the opportunity to play a woman of a certain age, my age, who gets to fully be her ridiculous self.”
