#catherine-ohara

#catherine-ohara

Catherine O'Hara, who died January 30 in Los Angeles, will be remembered for her capacity to convey enormous feeling with the smallest movement of her face. She could slide from pleasant blankness to overwrought terror in an instant; she could wield immense power with a polite nod. With her frequent onscreen partner Eugene Levy, O'Hara morphed into a dozen different guises: She was the wide-eyed innocent in Waiting for Guffman, then weaponized that naïveté into a steely competence in Best in Show.

Macaulay Culkin has posted an emotional tribute to Catherine O'Hara, his on-screen mother in the Home Alone movies, following her death at the age of 71. "Mama. I thought we had time," Culkin wrote on Instagram. "I wanted more. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you. But I had so much more to say. I love you. I'll see you later."

Catherine O'Hara's decades-long marriage was a match made in Hollywood. O'Hara and husband Robert W. "Bo" Welch III first connected on the set of the 1988 cult classic, "Beetlejuice." O'Hara portrayed memorable character Delia Deetz while her future husband stayed behind the camera as a production designer.