She was a delight to watch anytime she was on screen somewhere.
Here are some highlights from NY Times:
Catherine O’Hara was already comedy royalty in Canada when she became known across the world thanks to her role in the 1990 blockbuster “Home Alone.” In a movie packed with memorable pratfalls and a precocious performance by a young Macaulay Culkin, it’s O’Hara who provides one of its most enduring moments.
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The Emmy-winning actress, who died at the age of 71 on Friday, was one of those performers who was simply a delight to see onscreen every time she appeared. She started with the improv comedy troupe Second City in Toronto and the show “SCTV,” where she helped define an era of Canadian comedy alongside co-stars including Martin Short, John Candy and Eugene Levy.
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In 1988, O’Hara played Delia Deetz, the droll and eccentric stepmother to Winona Ryder’s Lydia Deetz, in “Beetlejuice.”
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Moira Rose, the dramatic mother of “Schitt’s Creek,” for which O’Hara won her first acting Emmy, could easily be Delia Deetz’s long lost sister. A socialite similarly exiled to a rural town, Moira is a former soap opera actress whose obliviousness is matched only by the size of her ostentatious wig collection. Moira saunters into rooms with a new affect for every mood, dipping into cobbled together accents and exploding into grand exclamations of excitement or terror over the smallest setbacks.
I didn't know she was ill so it came as a shock to me.
Open thread.
