CATHERINE O'HARA

'Catherine Anne O'Hara' (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian-American actress and comedian. She is well known for her comedy work on ''SCTV'' and the roles as Delia Deetz in ''Beetlejuice'', Kate McCallister in ''Home Alone'', Sally in ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' and in the films written and directed by Christopher Guest and his frequent costars.

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Career

Personal life

Filmography

Quotes

References

External links

Career

She started her acting career in 1974 as a cast member of The Second City in Toronto. In 1976, this theatre troupe created the television series ''SCTV'', on which O'Hara became a regular performer. Memorable O'Hara characterizations on the show included Las Vegas scorcher (I wanna bear your children!) Lola Heatherton, buzzer-happy game show contestant Margaret Meehan, raunchy nightclub comedian Dusty Towne, soap opera seductress Sue Ellen and stage actress Sue Bopper Simpson.
In the late 1970s, she did various voice-overs for a number of cartoons, which would continue throughout her career. She was hired to replace Ann Risley when ''Saturday Night Live'' was being retooled in 1981 following Jean Doumanian's disastrous stint as executive producer. However, O'Hara quit the show without ever having made an appearance on it, primarily due to her shock after witnessing a long, loud diatribe by ''SNL'' writer Michael O'Donoghue. Her ''SNL'' position was then given to fellow Canadian Robin Duke, who had also replaced O'Hara for a season on SCTV.
Celebrities impersonated by O'Hara on ''SCTV'' include: Liv Ullmann, Katharine Hepburn, Diane Keaton, Joey Heatherton, Lola Falana, Elizabeth Taylor, Brooke Shields, Morgan Fairchild, Barbara Billingsley, Phyllis George, Charlotte Rampling, Monica Vitti, Jane Pauley, Rona Barrett, Tammy Faye Bakker, Angie Dickinson, Dorothy Kilgallen, Jessica Savitch, Linda Blair, Judith Crist, Rusty Warren, Gilda Radner, Joan Sutherland, Jane Fonda, Joan Embry,Candice Bergen, and Meryl Streep.
She had a role in ''The Last of the High Kings'' as a staunch Irish nationalist in 1970s Dublin. In 2006, O'Hara starred in her fourth Christopher Guest film, ''For Your Consideration'' (following ''Waiting for Guffman'', ''Best in Show'', and ''A Mighty Wind'').
On June 9, 2007, she was inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame.

Personal life

O'Hara, a naturalized U.S. citizen,^[1] married Bo Welch in 1992. They have two sons, born in 1994 and 1997. She is the sister of singer-songwriter Mary Margaret O'Hara, though she is a singer-songwriter in her own right, having written and performed songs in the 2003 film ''A Mighty Wind''.

Filmography

Year	Film title	Character or Role
1983	''Rock & Rule''	Aunt Edith
1985	''After Hours''	Gail
1988	''Beetlejuice''	Delia Deitz
1990	''Home Alone''	Kate McCallister
1990	''Betsy's Wedding''	Gloria Henner
1990	''Dick Tracy''	Texie Garcia
1990	''Little Vegas''	Lexie
1992	''	Kate McCallister
1992	''There Goes the Neighborhood''	Jessie Lodge
1993	''The Nightmare Before Christmas''	Sally and Shock (both speaking and singing)
1994	''Little Giants''	Young Boy's Mother
1994	''A Simple Twist of Fate''	Mrs. Simon
1994	''Wyatt Earp''	Allie Earp
1994	''The Paper''	Susan
1995	''Tall Tale''	Calamity Jane
1996	''The Last of the High Kings''	Cathleen
1996	''Waiting for Guffman''	Sheila Albertson
1997	''Hope'' (TV)	Muriel Macswain
1997	''Pippi Longstocking''	voice of Mrs. Prysselius
1999	''Late Last Night'' (TV)	the Shrink
1998	''Home Fries''	Mrs. Lever
1999	''Bartok the Magnificent''	voice of Ludmilla
1999	''The Life Before This''	Sheena
2000	''Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big''	voice
2000	''Best in Show''	Cookie Guggelman Fleck
2001	''Speaking of Sex''	Connie Barker
2001	''Committed'' (TV Series)
2002	''Orange County''	Cindy Beugler
2003	''A Mighty Wind''	Mickey Crabbe
2004	''Surviving Christmas''	Christine Valco
2004	''The Wool Cap''	Gloria
2005	''A Series of Unfortunate Events''	Justice Strauss
2005	''Chicken Little''	Tina
2006	''For Your Consideration''	Marilyn Hack
2006	''Monster House''	DJ's Mother
2006	''Brother Bear 2''	Kata
2006	''Over The Hedge''	Penny
2007	''Penelope''	Jessica Wilhern
2008	''Where the Wild Things Are''	(voice)

Quotes

"Night time is really the best time to work, all the ideas are there to be yours
for everyone else is sleeping"

References

1. http://www.filmreference.com/film/75/Catherine-O-Hara.html

External links

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