Catherine O'Hara in Home Alone (1990). Photo credit: Supplied by LMK / IPA / IPA / Profimedia
Canadian actress Catherine O'Hara, famous for her role in the “Home Alone” movies, died Friday at the age of 71, celebrity news site TMZ reports.
Nominated over the years for Golden Globes or Emmy Awards, actress Catherine O'Hara has won the Primetime Emmy Award twice in her career, in 1982 and in 2020.
But by far the role for which the general public knows her is the one in “Home Alone”. In the first two films of the “Home Alone” series, O'Hara played the role of the mother of Kevin McCallister, the character played by Macaulay Culkin.
Another iconic role of her career was that of the eccentric Moira Rose in the series “Schitt's Creek”.
Other notable roles include “Best in Show” (2000) and “A Mighty Wind” (2003), as well as “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” and the original “Beetlejuice” movie.
The most recent production in which he starred was the series “The Studio” (2025), for which he also received an Emmy nomination.
The cause of the actress' death is not immediately clear, writes TMZ.
The actress was 71 years old.
