"O'Hara started her comedy career in the 1970s and helped to create the Canadian sketch show SCTV. She broke into film in the 1980s with her first big screen credit in romantic comedy Nothing Personal with Donald Sutherland and in 1985 she had a role in Martin Scorsese's black comedy After Hours. In 1988, O'Hara starred in Tim Burton's comedy horror Beetlejuice and later reprised the role in the 2024 sequel."
"With someone else, you can share the showing off. The show, about a wealthy family who are forced to downsize, ran for six seasons and won O'Hara an Emmy award. I'm always drawn to characters who have no idea of the impression they're making on other people, she said in 2021. We're all delusional, really, and I love that about us humans and I love playing it."
Catherine O'Hara died at age 71 after a brief illness. She began her comedy career in the 1970s and helped create the Canadian sketch show SCTV. She transitioned to film in the 1980s with Nothing Personal and a role in Martin Scorsese's After Hours. She starred in Beetlejuice (1988) and its 2024 sequel. She played Macaulay Culkin's mother in Home Alone (1990) and its sequel. She collaborated with Christopher Guest in Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration. She provided voice work for animated films including Chicken Little, Over the Hedge, Monster House, Frankenweenie and The Wild Robot. She won an Emmy for Schitt's Creek.
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