alone at home actor Devin Ratray has reacted to cost Catherine O’Haradied at the age of 71.
“One of the greatest people I’ve ever met,” Ratray, 49, who played O’Hara’s on-screen son Buzz McCallister, wrote of a throwback photo of the pair via Instagram on Friday, January 30.
The death of O’Hara at his home in Los Angeles on Friday “after a brief illness,” according to a statement from his agency, Creative Artists Agency.
The cause of death is not yet known.
Catherine O’Hara stepped out at the 2025 Emmy Awards less than five months before her death at age 71. O’Hara stunned in a long-sleeve black Christian Dior gown at the Sept. 14, 2025, awards ceremony held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, where she won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series (A Supporting Actress).
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O’Hara played Kate McCallister, the mother of Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin), in the 1990s alone at home and from 1992 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. The original film sees 8-year-old Kevin defend his home from burglars after his family goes on Christmas vacation without him, while the sequel follows Kevin on a solo trip to New York after he accidentally gets on the wrong plane the following Christmas.
The comedian reflected alone at homethe legacy of in a 2024 interview with people.
“I need to worry about everything. I don’t mind playing a big role in a bad project. You want to be part of something good, and you go,” he said at the time. “Then the people you’re going to work with and the experience, the day-to-day experience. And in this case, it was lovely. All those kids playing with our kids were lovely.”
O’Hara continued: “(Director) Chris Columbuslovely man He himself is a family man. I think I already had five children at that time. I (screenwriter) John Hughes. John Hughes wasn’t there much, but he obviously wrote such a beautiful script. It’s a perfect movie, isn’t it?”
O’Hara also chimed in The New York Times‘ The 2024 report estimates that the McCallister family was in the top 1 percent of income earners in Chicago, as evidenced by their large home.
“I was aware of how beautiful she was, but no, I never thought about her money,” he said. “That’s not where my head was when I was making (the film). Of course, they all went to Paris, didn’t they?”
“I guess Peter had his own religion,” she joked of her on-screen husband, played by the late John Heard. “Church of the McCallisters.”
O’Hara is also known for her roles as Delia Deetz in 1988 Beetlejuice and its 2024 sequel i Cookie Fleck in the 2000s The best of the show.
Additionally, O’Hara played Moira Rose in the Canadian comedy Schitt’s Creekwhich aired for six seasons on CBC Television from 2015 to 2020. The role earned her a 2020 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and a Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy.
The actress’ most recent work was the AppleTV+ series the studywhere he starred alongside Seth Rogen. She earned a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 2025 Emmys and Outstanding Supporting Actress in Television at the 2026 Golden Globe Awards, which took place on January 11. (O’Hara did not attend the awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in California. She was also absent from the Critics’ Choice Awards the week before.)
O’Hara was born in Toronto as the sixth of seven children. She met her husband Good Welch on the set of Beetlejuicemarried the production designer in 1992. The couple shared two children, Matthew32 i Luke29.