BIG GAME. ALL RIGHT, BREAKING NEWS AND REALLY SAD NEWS HERE. THAT CAME AS A REAL SHOCK TO OUR NEWSROOM. ACTRESS CATHERINE O’HARA HAS DIED. ED HARDING IS OVER AT OUR BREAKING NEWS DESK WITH THE TRIBUTES THAT ARE COMING IN FOR THIS ED SHOCK, JESSICA AND SADNESS RINGING THROUGH EVERYTHING. CATHERINE O’HARA HAD HAD A LONG AND BELOVED CAREER. SHE HAD MORE THAN 100 ROLES ALL ACROSS TELEVISION AND FILM. RECENTLY, SHE STARRED IN THE COMEDY SERIES SCHITT’S CREEK. SHE WAS ALSO IN THE ONE ON APPLE TV, THE STUDIO SHE EARNED HER PRIMETIME EMMY AWARD AND GOLDEN GLOBE WITH SCHITT’S CREEK. THAT’S EUGENE LEVY, WHO FOR A LONG TIME WAS THE STAR WITH HER. SHE ROSE TO FAME IN 1988 WITH HER ROLE IN BEETLEJUICE. JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS LATER, SHE PLAYED. SHE WAS KEVIN’S MOM IN HOME ALONE, AND WE ALL REMEMBER THAT FAMOUS LINE, KEVIN. AND SPEAKING OF WHICH, MACAULAY CULKIN, WRITING ON SOCIAL MEDIA, MAMA, I THOUGHT WE HAD TIME, I WANTED MORE, I WANTED TO SIT IN A CHAIR NEXT TO YOU. I HEARD YOU, BUT I ALSO I HAD SO MUCH MORE TO SAY, I LOVE YOU, I WILL SEE YOU LATER. CATHERINE O’HARA WAS BORN RIGHT HERE IN BOSTON JUST A FEW YEARS AGO FOR THE EARTHSHOT AWARDS. SHE WAS HERE. HER AGENCY SAYS THAT SHE DIED AT HER HOME IN LOS ANGELES. FOLLOWING WHAT THEY SAID WAS A BRIEF ILLNESS. SHE WAS
A month after her unexpected death, Catherine O’Hara won a posthumous award at the 32nd Actor Awards for her performance on “The Studio.”O’Hara won best female actor in a comedy series Sunday at the Actor Awards, formerly known as the Screen Actors Guild Awards. O’Hara died at the age of 71 on Jan. 30 from a blood clot in the lungs. At the Shine Auditorium in Los Angeles, the crowd stood in a standing ovation for O’Hara after she was announced as the winner.Seth Rogen, co-creator of “The Studio,” accepted the award on her behalf. He recalled a passionate collaborator who would, the night before a scene, invariably send a polite email with suggested rewrites. Rogen said O’Hara “showed that you could be a genius and you could be kind.”Rogen, crying, took out cards to read a prepared tribute. “I was asked to assume the very sad honor of accepting this award on O’Hara’s behalf, he began, “I know she would’ve been honored to receive this award from her fellow performers, who I know she respected so much, she was such big fans of all of yours.”He continued, “I, obviously, you know, have been reflecting on the time I was fortunate enough to spend with her working with her, and something that I’ve just been marveling at over the last few weeks was was really her ability to be generous and kind and gracious, while never, ever minimizing her own talents—and her own ability to contribute to the work we were doing. She knew she could destroy and she wanted to destroy every day we were on set.“I haven’t said this to the other actors because I didn’t want them to get ideas, but pretty much every evening before she had a shooting day on our show, she would email me and Evan an email that always was pretty similar: ‘Hello, I hope you’ll consider the following.’ And then there would be a completely rewritten version of the scene she was in. And literally 100% of the time, it made not just her character better, but it made the scene better and the entire show better as a whole. And she really showed that you can be a genius and be kind, and one of those things does not have to come at the expense of the other in any way, shape, or form.””If you have people in your lives who don’t know her work,” Rogen continued, “show them O’Hara dancing to Harry Belafonte in ‘Beetlejuice,’ show them O’Hara hurting her knee in ‘Best in Show’ and doing that amazing thing where she hobbles around, and tell the people as they are laughing that that’s Catherine O’Hara and we were lucky that we got to live in a world where she so generously shared her talents with us.””The Studio” also won best comedy series and best actor in a comedy series for Rogen. In the show, O’Hara, played the movie executive Patty Leigh.
A month after her unexpected death, Catherine O’Hara won a posthumous award at the 32nd Actor Awards for her performance on “The Studio.”
O’Hara won best female actor in a comedy series Sunday at the Actor Awards, formerly known as the Screen Actors Guild Awards. O’Hara died at the age of 71 on Jan. 30 from a blood clot in the lungs. At the Shine Auditorium in Los Angeles, the crowd stood in a standing ovation for O’Hara after she was announced as the winner.
Seth Rogen, co-creator of “The Studio,” accepted the award on her behalf. He recalled a passionate collaborator who would, the night before a scene, invariably send a polite email with suggested rewrites. Rogen said O’Hara “showed that you could be a genius and you could be kind.”
Rogen, crying, took out cards to read a prepared tribute. “I was asked to assume the very sad honor of accepting this award on O’Hara’s behalf, he began, “I know she would’ve been honored to receive this award from her fellow performers, who I know she respected so much, she was such big fans of all of yours.”
He continued, “I, obviously, you know, have been reflecting on the time I was fortunate enough to spend with her working with her, and something that I’ve just been marveling at over the last few weeks was was really her ability to be generous and kind and gracious, while never, ever minimizing her own talents—and her own ability to contribute to the work we were doing. She knew she could destroy and she wanted to destroy every day we were on set.
“I haven’t said this to the other actors because I didn’t want them to get ideas, but pretty much every evening before she had a shooting day on our show, she would email me and Evan an email that always was pretty similar: ‘Hello, I hope you’ll consider the following.’ And then there would be a completely rewritten version of the scene she was in. And literally 100% of the time, it made not just her character better, but it made the scene better and the entire show better as a whole. And she really showed that you can be a genius and be kind, and one of those things does not have to come at the expense of the other in any way, shape, or form.”
“If you have people in your lives who don’t know her work,” Rogen continued, “show them O’Hara dancing to Harry Belafonte in ‘Beetlejuice,’ show them O’Hara hurting her knee in ‘Best in Show’ and doing that amazing thing where she hobbles around, and tell the people as they are laughing that that’s Catherine O’Hara and we were lucky that we got to live in a world where she so generously shared her talents with us.”
“The Studio” also won best comedy series and best actor in a comedy series for Rogen. In the show, O’Hara, played the movie executive Patty Leigh.
