Catherine O’Hara

Catherine O’Hara (born in Toronto, Canada, March 4, 1954) acted in and wrote for the Canadian comedy series SCTV (1976-1984). She also acted in movies like After Hours (1985) by Martin Scorsese, Beetlejuice (1988) by Tim Burton, Home Alone (1990), Wyatt Earp (1994) by Lawrence Kasdan, and Away We Go (2009) by Sam Mendes. She worked with Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy in several mockumentaries: Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2020), A Mighty Wind (2003), andFor Your Consideration (2006). On television she acted in Temple Grandin (2010) with Claire Danes, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017-2018), and played Moira Rose, again with Levy, in Schitt’s Creek (2015-2020).

O’Hara first performed with Toronto’s Second City Theatre and later, with fellow alumni including Levy, created the memorable sketch comedy show SCTV. O’Hara won an Emmy Award and earned four Emmy nominations for her writing on the show.

In the final two seasons of the hit CBC series, Schitt’s Creek, O’Hara received multiple awards, including a Golden Globe® for Best Performance by an Actress in a Comedy Television Series. She can be seen reprising the role of Delia Deetz in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. She can also be seen in Season 2 of the HBO Max series The Last of Us, and in the comedy series The Studio from Point Grey Pictures for Apple TV+.