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Emmy-winning actress Catherine O’Hara has died.
The Canadian-American actress, who famously starred in sitcom Schitt’s Creek and Home Alone films, was 71.
She died on Friday at her home in Los Angeles “following a brief illness,” her agency, CAA, said in a statement.
Catherine O’Hara arrives at the opening night of the London Film Festival to see new film Frankenweenie. Pic: PA
Catherine O’Hara and her husband Bo Welch at the 2025 Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. Pic: Reuters
O’Hara’s career was launched at the Second City in Toronto in the in 1970s, where she first worked with Eugene Levy, who would become a lifelong collaborator – and her “Schitt’s Creek” costar.
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