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   From: super70s@super70s.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-30 21:36:50 +0000, Your Name said:   
      
   >     Catherine O'Hara Passes Away, Schitt's Creek & Home Alone Star Was 71   
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   >     Catherine O'Hara has passed away. The legendary star of Home Alone,   
   >     Schitt's Creek, and much more was 71 years old.   
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   >     TMZ was first to report that O'Hara passed away on Friday, January 30,   
   >     2026. The cause of death is currently unclear.   
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   >     Born in 1954, O'Hara's career in Hollywood began with the Canadian   
   >     sketch comedy series Second City Television, per Variety. That show   
   >     earned O'Hara her first PrimeTime Emmy Award, an accolade that she'd   
   >     again win in 2020 for her performance in Schitt's Creek.   
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   >     O'Hara's first credited Hollywood movie is 1980's Nothing Personal.   
   >     She then went on to star in 1980's Double Negative and 1983's Rock &   
   >     Rule before playing the memorable role of Gail in Martin Scorsese's   
   >     After Hours, which was released in 1985.   
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   >     Her stardom continued to rise after playing Delia Deetz in Tim   
   >     Burton's Beetlejuice, released in 1988. Just two years later, she   
   >     starred as Kevin McCallister's mom, Kate McCallister, in Home Alone.   
   >     She reprised this role again in the sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New   
   >     York.   
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   >     Following that, O'Hara voiced Sally in The Nightmare Before Christmas   
   >     and appeared in movies such as 1994's Wyatt Earp, 1996's Waiting for   
   >     Huffman, 1997's Pippi Longstocking, 2000's Best in Show, and 2004's   
   >     Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, among many other   
   >     titles.   
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   >     O'Hara's career had a major renaissance in her 60s when she starred   
   >     as Moira Rose in the popular Schitt's Creek sitcom alongside Eugene   
   >     Levy, Dan Levy, and Annie Murphy. She recently played Patty Leigh in   
   >     the first season of The Studio and Gail Lynden in Season 2 of   
   >     The Last of Us. Additionally, O'Hara reprised her Delia Deetz   
   >     character in the Beetlejuice sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and   
   >     voiced a character in the award-winning The Wild Robot movie released   
   >     in 2024.   
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   >     ComingSoon sends condolences to Catherine O'Hara's friends and family   
   >     at this time.   
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