BREAKING NEWS'Home Alone' Actress Catherine O'Hara Dead at 71
'Home Alone' actress Catherine O'Hara has died at 71 years old.
Jan. 30 2026, Published 1:15 p.m. ET
Catherine O'Hara died on Friday, January 30, two sources with direct knowledge told TMZ.
The cause of death remains unclear. Page Six reported the Hollywood legend was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital in "serious" condition, where she later died.
O'Hara played Macaulay Culkin's mother in the first two Home Alone movies, and she became a fan-favorite after playing Moira Rose in Schitt's Creek.
Catherine O'Hara died on January 30.
It's unclear if the starlet was sick before her untimely death.
She previously admitted to having COVID while shooting Seth Rogen's comedy The Studio.
“I got COVID at The Sphere, and that’s all I could see watching that one. I can see my posture is just [droops her body],” she explained. “I didn’t test because we were trying to finish shooting, and we were leaving town in a day or two, so we had to shoot all those scenes.”
“I just kept my distance,” O’Hara continued. “At one point, I had a water bottle down on the floor, and Evan [Goldberg] came over and he said, 'Oh, do you want your water?' 'No, don’t pick it up!' I just knew, like, ‘Don’t touch anything!’ Thank God I didn’t give it to anyone.”
Who Was Catherine O'Hara's Husband?
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Catherine O'Hara was married to Bo Welch.
O'Hara, who was married to Bo Welch, made her final appearance at the 2025 Emmy Awards alongside her man.
In the photos, she appeared frail.
O'Hara met her husband on the set of Beetlejuice in 1988. Tim Burton helped bring them together by urging Welch to ask O'Hara on a date.
“I moved to L.A. to be with him,” she told The New Yorker. “Yeah, I moved for love.”
She later shared the secret to their romance.
“People always say, ‘Communicate,’ right? ‘Tell them how you’re feeling.’ We do a lot of it with jokes,” she told People in 2024 of her marriage. "We’ll make fun of each other instead of yelling at each other. Sarcasm helps!”
How Many Kids Did They Share?
The actress had two kids with her husband.
The two got married on April 25, 1992. They shared two sons: Matthew and Luke.
“Matthew and Luke ... They're very funny, and we encourage it,” O'Hara told the Toronto Star in 2007. “The older one does Warners cartoon bits, really old-fashioned, cheap-ass funny vaudeville stuff. And the little one does word play.”
