Tributes have poured in for beloved Canadian actress Catherine O’Hara, the Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek star who died this week at age 71.US media outlets reported on Friday that O’Hara died at her Los Angeles home after a brief illness.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBorn and raised in Toronto, O’Hara began her acting career in the 1970s at The Second City improvisational theatre and later performed on iconic Canadian comedy show SCTV.Her break into movies came in 1980 with Double Negative, alongside her longtime collaborator Eugene Levy, as well as John Candy.But she became widely known to a global audience when she played Macaulay Culkin’s mother in 1990’s Home Alone.“It’s a perfect movie, isn’t it?” she told People magazine in 2024. “You want to be part of something good, and that’s how you go.”More recently, younger audiences embraced O’Hara for her role as the matriarch of a rich family that loses its wealth in Schitt’s Creek, where she again starred alongside Levy, as well as his son, Dan.Her turn as Moira Rose won her an Emmy award for best actress in a comedy series in 2020.Here’s a look at how actors, politicians and others are remembering O’Hara: From left, Schitt’s Creek stars Eugene Levy, Annie Murphy, Dan Levy and Catherine O’Hara pose for a portrait in 2018 [Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP Photo]Macaulay Culkin“Mama. I thought we had time. I wanted more. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you. …
