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Catherine Anne O'Hara OC [1] (born March 4, 1954) [2] is a Canadian actress and screenwriter. She is known for her comedy work on Second City Television (1976–1984) and Schitt's Creek (2015–2020) and in films such as After Hours (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Home Alone (1990), Home Alone 2: Lost in New ...
Canadian actress, writer, and comedian, Catherine O'Hara gained recognition as one of the original cast members on the Canadian television sketch comedy show SCTV (1976). On the series, she impersonated the likes of Lucille Ball, Tammy Faye Bakker, Gilda Radner, Katharine Hepburn, and Brooke Shields.
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Learn about the life and career of Canadian actress, writer, and comedian Catherine O'Hara, who starred in SCTV, Beetlejuice, and Schitt's Creek. Find out her family, trivia, quotes, and more on IMDb.
- Actress, Writer, Producer
- March 4, 1954
Sep 6, 2024 · Catherine O’Hara (born March 4, 1954, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian comedic actor whose improvisational skills and ability to imbue her comic characters with depth and humanity brought her respect and a number of career-defining roles.
- Pat Bauer
- SCTV
- After Hours
- Beetlejuice
- Home Alone
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Christopher Guest Mockumentary Quaternity
- Home Fries
- Six Feet Under
- Temple Grandin
- Schitt's Creek
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Just 20 years old at the time, O'Hara got her first big break in 1974 when she was hired as an understudy for Gilda Radner at Toronto's sketch comedy theatre troupe The Second City. Two years later, she'd been promoted to regular performer when Second City Television (more commonly known as SCTV) debuted as the troupe's TV offshoot. Joining the lik...
Just afterSCTV ended, O'Hara got her cinematic feet wet with an impressive one-two punch, landing roles in films by inarguably legendary directors Martin Scorsese and Mike Nichols. The latter (1986's Heartburn) offers some very fun scenes where O'Hara plays a gossip columnist opposite Meryl Streep, but it's the former (1985's After Hours) where she...
My own introduction to O'Hara (and absolutely the performance of hers I've rewatched the most times) comes with a significant personal anecdote, if I may: I spent most of the fall of 1988 in the hospital with a bad bout of meningitis, which led me to completely lose hearing in my right ear. I got out of the hospital in early November, and on the fi...
Like millions of children around the world, I stood in line outside a movie theatre on November 16, 1990 waiting to get a ticket to the opening night of Home Alone. But unlike what I assume is the vast majority of those millions of children, the primary draw for me was not Macaulay Culkin — it was his on-screen mother. I'd become mildly obsessed wi...
A somewhat unheralded aspect of O'Hara's storied career has been her extensive voice work, which she started in television cartoons in the 1970s and continues as recently as this year's Netflix animated film Extinct (which I have not seen, but apparently has O'Hara voicing an extinct llama-like animal that is transported from 1835 to modern day Sha...
To offer just one slot on this list to the holy quaternity that is O'Hara's four collaborations with director Christopher Guest — Waiting For Guffman (1996),Best In Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003) and For Your Consideration (2006) — is by no means suggestive that their quality amounts to just one slot. They are, in my opinion, the crown jewels of...
In between making the Christopher Guest movies, O'Hara was unfortunately handed the raw deal so many actresses in their 40s have experienced (particularly in the 1990s and early 2000s): she was repeatedly cast as "the mother." From 1996 to 2010, she played supporting roles as the mothers of Jared Leto, Colin Hanks, Christina Applegate, Christina Ri...
The HBO series Six Feet Under was part of the first wave of something that thankfully continues to this day: prestige television that writes incredible roles for women over 40. And O'Hara was among the many women whom the series was lucky enough to include among their examples (others being Kathy Bates, Patricia Clarkson and Francis Conroy), playin...
O'Hara would receive her first Emmy nomination for acting for a rare dramatic role in the 2010 HBO movie, Temple Grandin. Grandin follows the real-life titular character (Claire Danes), an acclaimed animal scientist and autism advocate who herself is on the autism spectrum disorder. Danes rightfully got the lion's share of acclaim in this carefully...
What more can be said about O'Hara's endlessly mesmerizing work as Moira Rose on Schitt's Creek? Over six seasons, the series grew from a cult following to a genuine phenomenon, ending its run by sweeping basically all the award shows — including trophies for O'Hara at all 5 major American TV awards (the SAGs, the Emmys, the Critics Choice, the Gol...
A tribute to the Canadian actress, comedian and writer who will receive a Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award. From SCTV to Schitt's Creek, see her roles in film and TV that showcase her versatility and talent.
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- Peter Knegt
May 21, 2020 · The beloved Catherine O’Hara on her early friendship with Gilda Radner, flubbed auditions, and the curative power of gratitude.
Apr 13, 2024 · A criminally underrated but beloved star of film and television, the great Catherine O'Hara has been entertaining audiences for nearly fifty years. As a member of Second City Toronto, O'Hara...
