Catherine O’Hara, the acclaimed Canadian-born comic actor and “SCTV” alum who starred in two “Home Alone” films as Macaulay Culkin's harried mother and won an Emmy as Moira Rose in “Schitt’s Creek,” died Friday. She was 71.
O'Hara died at her home in Los Angeles "following a brief illness," according to a statement from her representatives at Creative Artists Agency. Further details were not immediately available.
O'Hara's career was launched with the Second City comedy group in Toronto in the 1970s. It was there that she first worked with Eugene Levy, who would become a lifelong collaborator - and her "Schitt's Creek" costar. The two would be among the original cast of the sketch show "SCTV," short for "Second City Television." The
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