Schitt’s Creek star Catherine O’Hara shared two sons Matthew and Luke Welch, with her husband Good Welch before his death at age 71 in January 2026.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department confirmed this Us Weekly on January 30, 2026 Paramedics were called to Catherine’s home in Brentwood that morning for a 911 call and transported her to a local hospital in “serious condition”.
we reported that O’Hara died after a “short illness”, but no official cause of death has been determined at this stage.
“The family will hold a private celebration of life,” a family spokesman confirmed we.
O’Hara and her husband, Bo, an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated production designer, welcomed their two sons after meeting on the set of the 1988 series. Beetlejuice. They married five years later, with their first-born son Matthew arriving in 1994. Younger son Luke followed in 1997.
“I’m with my family as much as I can,” he said 519 Magazine in August 2019. “When deciding what I’m going to do for the rest of my working life, my family always comes first. I have two kids, and when they were babies, I thought what’s the point? What’s the point of having kids if I’m not going to be with them, so that’s always been and always will be the number one consideration.”
Keep scrolling to learn more about O’Hara and Welch’s two children:
Matthew Welch
Catherine O’Hara and her husband, Bo Welch, welcomed their eldest son, Matthew Welch, two years after exchanging wedding vows in 1992.
The actress revealed it people in the year 2024 who once had a “Malatian” parenting experience straight out of their 1990 holiday classic alone at home. (O’Hara starred in both alone at home and 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York as Kate McCallister, a mother whose son Kevin is accidentally left alone for the holidays two different times.)
Catherine looked back on a moment of fear when she took her two young sons for a subway ride in New York. Tragedy almost struck when the train doors closed before the boys boarded.
Catherine O’Hara and her husband Bo Welch in February 2007.
Kevin Winter/Getty Images“We turned around, the doors are closing and they just weren’t on,” he recalled. “I screamed and people screamed with me. Everyone joined in… It hurts to think what could have happened!”
The actress continued: “What happens? You’re on the train, it’s going to the next stop. And you think, are they going to stay in this place? Are they going to be safe? Are we going to come back? Are they going to think, ‘Oh, I’m going to get on the next train and go?’ We didn’t have phones.”
Luke Welch
Luke Welch was born in 1997. Catherine O’Hara confirmed it 519 Magazine in 2019, she and her husband, Bo Welch, chose early on to put their family ahead of any career prospects.
“I also know that when I’m at work, I’m 100 percent at work. I actually forget that I’m married and I have kids,” Catherine admitted. “This is terrible, and I know that I will never focus on the work at hand, which in most cases is being a wife and a mother, but when I am at work, I am very focused on that. So, knowing that I will be like this, I have always tried to be careful about the work that I put myself into.”
She continued: “I have lovely friends. You know, you’ve got to have a life outside of your job. I mean, you’re lucky if you do. I speak as someone blessed that way. I get to work and I get to be with my family and friends. Not everyone gets to do that.”
Catherine O’Hara’s children are both in the entertainment industry
Matthew and Luke Welch have chosen to live a private life and are not on social media, but Catherine O’Hara has shared information about them over the years. she said Vanity Fair in 2020 that both sons worked on their hit comedy series Schitt’s Creek, one as a shop window and the other in the construction of scenography.
During an appearance in 2024 a Watch What Happens Live With Andy CohenCatherine revealed that part of her reason for joining The last of us Season 2 was because one of his sons worked on the HBO series.
“My son is a showcase on the show,” she confirmed.
Catherine O’Hara said her children shared her sense of humor
Catherine O’Hara was one of Canada’s most decorated comedy stars. He began his career on a groundbreaking sketch comedy show SCTV and later appeared in classic films such as alone at home, The best of the show, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Disney elemental.
Catherine’s two Emmy Award wins were nearly 40 years apart, first for SCTV in 1982 and later by Schitt’s Creek in 2020. His iconic portrait of Moira Rose a Schitt’s Creek It also earned her the award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy at the 2020 Golden Globes.
talking with The Toronto Star in 2007, Catherine confirmed that her sons Matthew and Luke were already carrying on the family’s comic legacy.
“They’re a lot of fun, and we encourage it,” Catherine declared. “The older one does Warner cartoon pieces, very old-fashioned, cheap vaudeville stuff. And the little one does puns.”
She added: “I’m proud to say we all make each other laugh. In my house, growing up. I learned that from my parents. They kept us laughing until the end, God bless them. How great?”