"Catherine O'Hara, who died Friday at age 71, was beloved by LGBTQ+ audiences for many roles over her long career. Here we look at her five (arguably) most iconic ones. In addition to these, you might want to check out her performances as the forgetful mom in the Home Alone franchise, as a hostile Mr. Softee driver in Martin Scorsese's urban nightmare comedy After Hours, and as a variety of characters on SCTV."
"For six seasons, O'Hara played Moira Rose, an aging actress and matriarch of a once-wealthy family who, having lost all their money, relocate to a small-town motel in the hit series Schitt's Creek. She "delivered razor-edged one-liners dripping with SAT vocabulary words while sporting couture and any number of the 'gals' from her infamous wig wall," Tracy E. Gilchrist wrote in The Advocate in 2020."
"In Beetlejuice, O'Hara is Delia Deetz, an obnoxious woman who moves with her husband (Jeffrey Jones) and daughter (Winona Ryder) into a charming New England home occupied by the ghosts of its former owners, the Maitlands (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin). Delia redecorates the house in supremely poor taste, swapping out a flowered sofa for one constructed of boilerplate and pony hide, and she and her family generally annoy the heck out of the ghosts."
Catherine O'Hara died Friday at age 71 and earned particular affection from LGBTQ+ audiences across a decades-long career. She delivered standout performances on both television and film, including the flamboyant Moira Rose on Schitt's Creek and the eccentric Delia Deetz in Beetlejuice, reprising the role in a 2024 sequel. She was a key member of Christopher Guest's mockumentary stock company, appeared in Waiting for Guffman, and played memorable parts such as the forgetful mom in the Home Alone films, a hostile Mr. Softee driver in After Hours, and numerous characters on SCTV.
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