On Friday, comedy legend Catherine O’Hara died at 71. The actress is survived by her husband, production designer Bo Welch, and their two sons, Matthew and Luke.
Throughout her five-decade career, O’Hara gave some of the most iconic and beloved comedic performances of all time. Perhaps most famous for her role as Kevin McCallister’s mom in Home Alone, she saw a career resurgence in the past decade thanks to her off-the-wall performance as Moira Rose on Schitt’s Creek. In between those two roles, O’Hara was a permanent fixture in Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries, turning in some of the funniest performances ever committed to film.
In the wake of her death, friends, collaborators, and admirers from all corners of the entertainment industry shared tributes to O’Hara across social media. Here, how she’s being remembered.
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Macaulay Culkin
Howard directed O’Hara in 1994’s The Paper and most recently acted alongside her in a particularly memorable episode of The Studio. The director shared that O’Hara was “a wonderful person, artist and collaborator” and that she was “simply growing more brilliant with each year.”
Rita Wilson
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“Catherine O’Hara — a woman who was authentic and truthful in all she did,” Wilson wrote. “You saw it in her work, if you knew her you saw it in her life, and you saw it in her family.”
Justin Theroux
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Theroux and O’Hara worked together on Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The actor shared a photo of her chair from the set and wrote, “Oh Catherine. You will be so so missed.”
