Catherine O’Hara, an actress who starred in legendary movies “Beetlejuice” and “Home Alone” earlier than taking a star flip as Moira Rose on the sitcom “Schitt’s Creek,” died Friday at the age of 71.
An announcement from CAA, the company that represented O’Hara, mentioned she died at her house in Los Angeles following a quick sickness.
After the success of “Home Alone” in 1990, O’Hara turned to collaborating with director Christopher Guest, starring in lots of his iconic mockumentaries, together with “Waiting for Guffman” (1996) and “Best in Show” (2000).
In these movies, O’Hara labored usually alongside Eugene Levy, changing into a signature duo who went on to co-star within the acclaimed “Schitt’s Creek” collectively. As wayward posh actress Moira Rose, O’Hara’s one-liners have been meme gold and earned her essential reward. O’Hara received an Emmy in 2020, and in her she thanked creators Eugene and Dan Levy for “bestowing me the opportunity to play a woman of a certain age, my age, who gets to fully be her ridiculous self.”