LOS ANGELES: Emmy-winning actress Catherine O’Hara, who starred in Schitt’s Creek and Home Alone, has died at the age of 71, her management agency said Friday (Jan 30).
The Canadian-born performer also starred in Beetlejuice and recently Apple TV’s Hollywood satire show The Studio.
A person who answered the phone at her manager Marc Gurvitz’s office confirmed the actress’s death to AFP, but did not give any further details.
O’Hara was born in Toronto in 1954, where she joined the legendary comedy theatre Second City, alongside Eugene Levy, with whom she would collaborate throughout her career, including on the smash TV series Schitt’s Creek.
Her break into movies came in 1980 with Double Negative – also alongside Levy, and John Candy.
In 1988, she played Winona Ryder’s stepmother in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice. She would later marry the film’s production designer Bo Welch. The couple had two sons, Matthew and Luke.