Catherine O’Hara, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ star, dies at 71

The comic actress was known for her roles in Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek. PIC/X@JournoPG

Catherine O'Hara, a gifted Canadian-born comic actor and "SCTV" alum who starred as Macaulay Culkin's harried mother in two "Home Alone" movies and won an Emmy as the dramatically ditzy wealthy matriarch 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 agency, Creative Artists Agency. Further details were not immediately available.

Macaulay Culkin, who played O'Hara's son in two "Home Alone" movies, on Instagram, "Mama. I thought we had time. 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." O'Hara is survived by her husband, Bo Welch, sons Matthew and Luke, and siblings Michael O'Hara, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Maureen Jolley, Marcus OHara, Tom O'Hara and Patricia Wallice.

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