Catherine O’Hara did not take anything for granted prior to her unexpected death at age 71.
In a resurfaced Elle Canada interview, the actress reflected on her exciting career opportunities in the later years of her life.
“I’m lucky [I get] to keep doing things like this at my age—I can’t believe it,” she told the outlet in August 2024 while promoting her film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. “Over the past few years, when I’ve gotten scared or nervous or if I start grousing about something, I’ve tried to really practice turning it around and being grateful. Like, ‘How lucky are you right now to be alive? And then to have this opportunity right here in this moment?’”
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After turning 70 earlier that year, O’Hara opened up about aging in Hollywood.
“I do think of age, but otherwise, I rarely look in the mirror,” she explained. “I feel that now, stories about people my age usually have to do with death and divorce and disease. So I’m really fortunate [to] have people around me who respect aging people and who give me new experiences. I’d like to think that the kind of roles I’m getting to play now are roles that people are getting to play in life.”
O’Hara pointed to her work on the Apple TV series The Studio as an example of her recent opportunities as an actress in her 70s.
“I’m playing a studio head who becomes an independent producer—how beautiful is it that someone my age is doing this?” she noted. “It’s the way it should be.”
At the time, O’Hara spoke about leaning into her thriving career rather than easing toward retirement.
“When [you turn] 70—this is advice [I read] for anybody turning any older age—imagine that you’re going to live a minimum of another 20 years,” she said. “What are you going to do with those years? If you look at it that way, you look at it as a challenge. Like, instead of, ‘Oh, no, I’m going to downsize,’ or ‘I’m going to slow down,’ imagine that you are going to live to 90. What are you going to do? You look forward.”
O’Hara’s agency, Creative Artists Agency, confirmed that the Schitt’s Creek alum died at her Los Angeles home on Friday, January 30, “following a brief illness.”
According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, O’Hara was transported to a hospital in “serious condition” after paramedics were called to her home at 4:48 a.m. for medical aid.
O’Hara was known for her roles on SCTV Network 90, Beetlejuice and Home Alone before experiencing a career resurgence during her run on Schitt’s Creek from 2015 to 2020. At the time of her death, she was starring on The Studio alongside Seth Rogen.
O’Hara is survived by her husband, Bo Welch—whom she married in April 1992—and their two sons, Matthew and Luke, whom the couple welcomed in 1994 and 1997, respectively.
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