{"id":35,"date":"2026-01-30T19:31:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hungry4it.com\/mmm\/?p=35"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:31:49","slug":"catherine-ohara-home-alone-and-schitts-creek-star-dead-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hungry4it.com\/mmm\/2026\/01\/30\/catherine-ohara-home-alone-and-schitts-creek-star-dead-at-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine O\u2019Hara, \u2018Home Alone\u2019 and \u2018Schitt\u2019s Creek\u2019 star, dead at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A statement from CAA, the agency which represented O\u2019Hara, said the actress died Friday \u201cat her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Hara got her start at Second City in her native Canada, before turning to film.<\/p>\n<p>Her roles in \u201cBeetlejuice\u201d (1988) and \u201cHome Alone\u201d (1990) won wide acclaim. Soon, she turned to collaborating with director Christopher Guest, starring in many of his iconic mockumentaries, including \u201cWaiting for Guffman\u201d (1996) and \u201cBest in Show\u201d (2000).<\/p>\n<p>No word on what cause her illness or death or for how long she had been sick.\u00a0 She was still acting in 2025.\u00a0 The was in the TV Series: The Studio<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>You might also be interested in:<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hungry4it.com\/mmm\/recommends\/erotic-western-saving-the-town\/\" data-eafl-id=\"36\" data-eafl-parsed=\"1\" class=\"eafl-link eafl-link-text eafl-link-cloaked\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Erotic Western: Saving The Town<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statement from CAA, the agency which represented O\u2019Hara, said the actress died Friday \u201cat her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness.\u201d O\u2019Hara got her start at Second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungry4it.com\/mmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungry4it.com\/mmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungry4it.com\/mmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungry4it.com\/mmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungry4it.com\/mmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hungry4it.com\/mmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/hungry4it.com\/mmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungry4it.com\/mmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungry4it.com\/mmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungry4it.com\/mmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}