Catherine O’Hara had an extraordinary career.
Indeed, throughout her decades-long career the Emmy Winner, who died Jan. 30 at 71, easily cemented herself as one of the most legendary comic actresses across North America.
Catherine got her start on television in her native Canada in the ’70s in a variety of made for TV movies and shows. However, her star began to rise in 1977 when she joined Eugene Levy—with whom she would frequently collaborate—Joe Flaherty and Harold Ramis on the Emmy-winning Canadian sketch comedy series, Second City TV (SCTV) where she flexed her comedic chops for six seasons until 1983.
Shortly after her stint on TV, Catherine landed the role of Delia Deetz in 1988’s Beetlejuicestarring alongside Michael Keaton and Wynonna Ryder. The following decade Catherine became a fixture alongside Macaulay Culkin during the holiday season with her role as Kate McCallister in the Home Alone movies as well as appearing alongside her longtime pal Eugene in several of Christopher Guest’s comedies like Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind.
