"Her co-star Culkin was among those paying her tribute Friday. "Mama, I thought we had time," Culkin said on Instagram alongside an image from Home Alone and a recent recreation of the same pose. "I wanted more. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you. But I had so much more to say. I love you. I'll see you later.""
"Schitt's Creek would be a career-capping triumph and the perfect personification of her comic talents. The small show created by Levy and his son Dan about a wealthy family forced to live in a tiny town would dominate the Emmys in its sixth and final season. It brought O'Hara, always a beloved figure, a new generation of fans and put her at the center of cultural attention."
Catherine O'Hara, a Canadian-born comic actor and SCTV alum, died Friday at age 71. She starred as Macaulay Culkin's harried mother in two Home Alone films and won an Emmy portraying Moira Rose, a dramatically ditzy wealthy matriarch, on Schitt's Creek. She collaborated with Christopher Guest on a series of mockumentaries including Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration, with Best in Show the most successful. Schitt's Creek earned widespread acclaim and dominated the Emmys in its final season, bringing O'Hara a new generation of fans. She crafted Moira with an exaggerated Mid-Atlantic accent and an obscure vocabulary, imagining her as a former soap star who had married rich and wanted to remind everyone she was special.
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