"In 1988, shortly after the release of his film Beetlejuice, the director Tim Burton highlighted a cast member who he felt stole the show: Catherine O'Hara, who played the snobbishly over-the-top matriarch Delia Deetz. "Catherine's so good, maybe too good," he marveled in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "She works on levels that people don't even know. I think she scares people because she operates at such high levels.""
"O'Hara spent much of her career being the kind of star Hollywood underestimated. Before Beetlejuice catapulted her to greater fame, the Toronto-born O'Hara was best known for being a cast member at the improv theater the Second City, which led to her being cast as a regular on the beloved Canadian sketch series SCTV. The actor was an unparalleled comic performer who could push her most flamboyant characters to their theatrical extremes."
Catherine O'Hara died at 71. She built her career in improv with Second City and as a regular on SCTV, then gained wider recognition in Beetlejuice as Delia Deetz. She was an unparalleled comic performer capable of pushing flamboyant characters—such as Moira Rose in Schitt's Creek and Cookie Fleck in Best in Show—to theatrical extremes while also bringing depth to straighter roles like Kate McCallister in Home Alone. Hollywood often underestimated her, but her versatility allowed her to unearth oddball elements in any character. Her performances combined high-level theatricality with precise comic craft.
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