Catherine O’Hara, who died on Friday at the age of 71, was beloved by LGBTQ+ audiences for her many roles during her long career. Here, we take a look at five of her (arguably) most iconic works. In addition to these, check out her performance as a forgetful mother. home alone series, starring as the hostile Mr. Softee Driver in Martin Scorsese’s urban nightmare comedy outside business hours, and as various characters SCTV.
“Schitt’s Creek”, 2015-2020
O’Hara played Moira Rose, the matriarch of a once-wealthy family, an aging actress who loses all her money and moves into a small-town motel on the hit series for six seasons. Schitt’s Creek. She “delivered razor-edged sentences peppered with SAT vocabulary while posing as one of the many ‘gals’ on the wall of haute couture and infamous wigs,” writes Tracy E. Gilchrist. defender In the series finale that year, she dressed up as the Pope to officiate the marriage of her son David (Dan Levy, son of Eugene Levy, who played Moira’s husband) and Patrick (Noah Reid).
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“Beetlejuice”, 1988
in beetlejuice, O’Hara plays Delia Dietz, an unpleasant woman who moves with her husband (Jeffrey Jones) and daughter (Winona Ryder) into a charming New England house occupied by the ghosts of its former owners, the Maitland family (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin). Delia redecorates the house in very bad taste, replacing the floral sofa with one made of boilerplate and pony skin. She and her family are generally haunted by ghosts. The Maitlands call in Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) to scare the Dietz family. O’Hara reprized the role in the sequel to 2024. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
“Waiting for Guffman” 1996
O’Hara was a key member of actor and director Christopher Guest’s mockumentary production company. in Waiting for Guffman, She and Fred Willard play travel agents who have never left the small town of Blaine, Missouri. They audition for community theater director Corky St. Clair (guest) for a pageant celebrating the town’s 150th anniversary.th The anniversary was marked by a hilariously bad rendition of “Midnight at the Oasis.”
“Best in Show”, 2000
in front Schitt’s Creek, O’Hara and Eugene Levy played a married couple in the film. best of show, A guest mockumentary about dog shows and the eccentric people who bring their dogs to compete. At the movie show, Cookie Fleck, played by O’Hara, meets many of her past lovers, much to the surprise of her husband Jerry (Levy).
“Mighty Wind”, 2003
O’Hara and Levi were reunited at the guest house. mighty wind, A mockumentary about the reunion of a 1960s folk group. O’Hara is Mickey Crabbe, one half of the duo Mitch and Mickey, and Levy’s Mitch is still hurt by Mickey’s failure to return his love. “mighty wind “It’s full of inspired details…but in the end it all comes down to Mitch and Mickey, whose climactic performance on stage verges on the transcendent,” wrote Michael Atkinson. The voice of the village.
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