Catherine O’Hara Biography, Age, Parents,Husband, Net Worth and Movies

Catherine O’Hara Biography

Catherine O’Hara is a Canadian-American actress, writer, and comedian. She is best known for playing a role in the 1974 comedy The Second City.

Catherine O’Hara Age – How Old Is Catherine O Hara

She was born Catherine Anne O’Haraon on 4 March 1954 in Toronto, Canada. She is 64 years old as of 2018.

Catherine O’Hara Parents – Catherine O’Hara Family

O’Hara is from a large family of Irish descent. She has six siblings where she is the sixth of the seven children. Her sister Mary Margaret O’Hara is a singer-songwriter and actress.

Catherine O’Hara Husband – Catherine O’Hara Children

She is married to Bo Welch an American production designer and director. The couple tied knot in 1992, and together have two sons, Matthew Welch born in 1994 and Luke Welch born in 1997. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband and children.

Catherine O’Hara Career

O’Hara began her comedy career in 1974. In 1975, she landed her first significant television role starring opposite John Candy and Dan Aykroyd in the main cast of the Canadian sitcom Coming Up Rosie from 1975–1978.

In 1976, O’Hara and Candy started work on Second City Television (1976–84), where she drew acclaim for both her work as a comedic actress and writer. In 1981, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series.

She has appeared in several films directed by Tim Burton, starting with the role of Delia Deetz in the 1988 film Beetlejuice. Her other roles in Burton films include the voices of Sally/Shock in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Susan Frankenstein in Frankenweenie (2012).

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She has also often collaborated with director and writer Christopher Guest, where she appeared in the mockumentary films; Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006).

O’Hara is also known as Kate McCallister, the mother of Kevin in both Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).

In 2000, O’Hara won a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for the film The Life Before This. In 2010, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for portraying as Aunt Ann in Temple Grandin opposite Claire Danes.

In 2016, she won two Canadian Screen Awards for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards for her work on the television series Schitt’s Creek (2015–present). In 2017, she won the 5th Canadian Screen Awards for the same role.

Her other notable appearances in television include the recurring roles of Dr. Georgina Orwell in the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events, Liz Larsen in Committed, and the voices of Jackie Martin in Glenn Martin, DDS.

During her career, O’Hara has hosted Saturday Night Live twice, and made numerous guest appearances on sitcoms, variety shows, and late night television.

Catherine O’Hara Net Worth

She has an estimated net worth of $8 million.

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Catherine O’Hara Home Alone

When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O’Hara) makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true. But his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect the family home.

Release date: 14 December 1990 (Kenya)
Director: Chris Columbus
Featured song: Somewhere in My Memory
Music composed by: John Williams
Box office: 476.7 million USD

Catherine O’Hara Movies and Tv Shows

Year	Title	Role
1980	Double Negative	Audrey
1980	Nothing Personal	Judith
1983	Rock & Rule	Aunt Edith (voice)
1985	After Hours	Gail
1986	Heartburn	Betty
1988	Beetlejuice	Delia Deetz
1990	Dick Tracy	Texie Garcia
1990	Betsy’s Wedding	Gloria Henner
1990	Home Alone	Kate McCallister
1990	Little Vegas	Lexie
1992	There Goes the Neighborhood	Jessica Lodge
1992	Home Alone 2: Lost in New York	Kate McCallister
1993	The Nightmare Before Christmas	Sally/Shock (voice)
1994	The Paper	Susan
1994	Wyatt Earp	Allie Earp
1994	A Simple Twist of Fate	April Simon
1995	Tall Tale	Calamity Jane
1996	Waiting for Guffman	Sheila Albertson
1996	The Last of the High Kings	Cathleen
1997	Pippi Longstocking	Mrs. Prysselius (voice)
1998	Home Fries	Beatrice Lever
1999	The Life Before This	Sheena
1999	Bartok the Magnificent	Ludmilla (voice)
2000	Best in Show	Cookie Fleck
2001	Speaking of Sex	Connie Barker
2002	Orange County	Cindy Beugler
2003	A Mighty Wind	Mickey Crabbe
2004	Surviving Christmas	Christine Valco
2004	Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events	Justice Strauss
2005	Game 6	Lillian Rogan
2005	Chicken Little	Tina (voice)
2006	Over the Hedge	Penny (voice)
2006	Monster House	Mrs. Walters (voice)
2006	Brother Bear 2	Kate (voice)
2006	Penelope	Jessica Wilhern
2006	For Your Consideration	Marilyn Heck
2006	Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses	Rowena (voice)
2009	Away We Go	Gloria Farlander
2009	Where the Wild Things Are	Judith (voice)
2010	Killers	Mrs. Kornfeldt
2011	A Monster in Paris	Madame Carlotta (voice)
2012	Frankenweenie	Susan Frankenstein / Gym Teacher / Weird Girl (voice)
2013	A.C.O.D.	Melissa
2013	The Right Kind of Wrong	Tess
2014	When Marnie Was There	Old Woman (voice)

Television

Year	Title	Role
1975	Wayne and Shuster	Various
1975–77	Coming Up Rosie	Marna Wallbacker
1976–84	SCTV	Various
1978	Witch’s Night Out	Malicious (voice)
1979	Please Don’t Eat The Planet	Ma Spademinder (voice)
1980	Easter Fever	Scarlett O’Hare
1980	From Cleveland	Various
1980	You’ve Come a Long Way, Katie’
1981	The Steve Allen Comedy Hour	Various
1984	The New Show	Various
1985	George Burns Comedy Week
1987	Trying Times	Rebecca
1988	The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley	Miss Malone (voice)
1988	Saturday Night Live	Cameo as herself
1989	I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood	Nancy Mae
1989	Andrea Martin… Together Again	Various
1990	The Dave Thomas Comedy Show
1990	Dream On	Irma
1991	Morton & Hayes	Amelia von Astor
1991	Saturday Night Live	Herself
1992	The Larry Sanders Show	Herself
1992	Saturday Night Live	Herself
1993	The Hidden Room	Laurel Brody
1994	Tales from the Crypt	Geraldine Ferrett
1997	The Outer Limits	Becka Paulson
1999	Oh Baby	Roberta Hunter
2000	MADtv	Woman on Blind Date
2001	Committed	Liz Larsen
2002	Bram & Alice	Ms. O’Connor
2003	Odd Job Jack	Claudia Johnson
2003–05	Six Feet Under	Carol Ward
2009	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Bam Bam
2009–11	Glenn Martin, DDS	Jackie Martin (voice)
2012	Leslie	Leslie
2012	30 Rock	Pearline
2013	The Greatest Event in Television History	Muriel Rush
2015	What Lives Inside	Sarah Delaney
2015–present	Schitt’s Creek	Moira Rose
2015	Modern Family	Dr. Debra Radcliffe
2016	Harvey Beaks	Miley (voice)
2016	Sofia the First	Morgana (voice)
2016	Skylanders Academy	Kaossandra (voice)
2017-2018	A Series of Unfortunate Events	Dr. Georgina Orwell

Television film

Title	Year	Role
1976	The Rimshots
1985	The Last Polka	Lemon Twin
1986	Dave Thomas: The Incredible Time Travels of Henry Osgood	Marie Antoinette
1987	Really Weird Tales	Theresa Sharpe
1997	Hope	Muriel Macswain
1999	Late Last Night	Shrink
2004	The Wool Cap	Gloria
2008	Good Behavior	Jackie West
2010	Temple Grandin	Aunt Ann
2013	To My Future Assistant	Magda