Catherine O'Hara

Catherine O'Hara

Birthday: 1954-03-04

Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Biography: Catherine Anne O'Hara (born March 4, 1954), a Canadian-American actress and comedienne, began her career at Second City Theatre in Toronto. She gained fame on SCTV alongside comedy icons like Rick Moranis and John Candy. Known for roles in films like "After Hours," "Beetlejuice," "Home Alone," and "The Nightmare Before Christmas," she's also renowned for her work in Christopher Guest's mockumentaries. Her versatility extends to voicing Grandma Frump in "The Addams Family." O'Hara received a Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award at the Governor General's Performance Arts Awards in 2020 and won a Golden Globe in 2021 for her role in "Schitt's Creek."

Movies

Brother Bear 2
Brother Bear 2

Kenai finds his childhood human friend Nita and the two embark on a journey to burn the amulet he ga...

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Home Alone
Home Alone

Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves...

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel ...

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Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice

A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New Y...

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After Hours
After Hours

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures d...

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Rock & Rule
Rock & Rule

A malevolent rock star kidnaps a female singer to force her to participate in the summoning of a dem...

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Over the Hedge
Over the Hedge

A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of fo...

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Penelope
Penelope

Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of ...

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From Cleveland
From Cleveland

Bob and Ray play two late night deejays, introducing sketches performed by several members of the SC...

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Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp

From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matte...

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PMS - Premenstrual Syndrome
PMS - Premenstrual Syndrome

Short film for David Letterman's Holiday Film Festival in 1985 produced by Andrea Martin and Catheri...

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Home Fries
Home Fries

Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death....

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The Paper
The Paper

Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long ho...

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The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Nightmare Before Christmas

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spin...

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Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin

A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic American who has become one of the leading scientists in hum...

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Monster House
Monster House

Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Th...

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Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles
Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles

Twenty-three years after the release of the original Beatles mockumentary, 'The Rutles: All You Need...

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Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking

Pippi Longstocking is an extraordinary little girl who lives alone in her house, while her father sa...

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Back Home Again
Back Home Again

An animated reimaging of the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,00...

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Chicken Little
Chicken Little

When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Togethe...

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A Mighty Wind
A Mighty Wind

Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following ...

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Heartburn
Heartburn

She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper column...

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Best in Show
Best in Show

The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air...

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An Audience with Adele
An Audience with Adele

Joining multi-Grammy Award winning and one of the biggest UK artists of all time, Adele, for a uniqu...

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Elemental
Elemental

In a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with...

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For Your Consideration
For Your Consideration

The possibility of Oscar gold holds the cast and crew of an independent film in its grip after the p...

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A Simple Twist of Fate
A Simple Twist of Fate

When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and ...

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Surviving Christmas
Surviving Christmas

A wealthy executive, Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) has no close relationships and becomes nostalgic for ...

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Killers
Killers

When an elite assassin marries a beautiful computer whiz after a whirlwind romance, he gives up the ...

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Frankenweenie
Frankenweenie

When a car hits young Victor's pet dog Sparky, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way...

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The Last of the High Kings
The Last of the High Kings

It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis P...

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Waiting for Guffman
Waiting for Guffman

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town m...

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Where the Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are

Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira,...

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Witch's Night Out
Witch's Night Out

A witch, disgruntled by the fact that no one takes Halloween seriously anymore, decides to stir thin...

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Bartok the Magnificent
Bartok the Magnificent

Albino bat Bartok – former sidekick to the wicked Grigori Rasputin – ventures to prove his true wort...

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Away We Go
Away We Go

Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting thei...

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still hau...

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Catherine O'Hara: All of Us Shine
Catherine O'Hara: All of Us Shine

From "SCTV" and "Home Alone" to "Best in Show" and "Schitt’s Creek", Catherine O’Hara collaborates w...

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The Last Polka
The Last Polka

A mockumentary that depicts the final concert of Yosh and Stan Shmenge aka the Happy Wanderers....

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A.C.O.D.
A.C.O.D.

A grown man is still caught in the crossfire of his parents' 15 year divorce. He discovers he was un...

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The Right Kind of Wrong
The Right Kind of Wrong

A stubborn idealist spies a bride on her way to her wedding and immediately falls in love with her....

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Late Last Night
Late Last Night

After a fight with his wife, who's leaving him, Dan's day is getting worse by the minute. He calls a...

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Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot

Actors, crew and executives who worked at Warner Bros. Pictures recall their days at the studio....

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Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet
Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet

With a new twist on an old holiday, Intergalatic Thanksgiving or Please Don't Eat the Planet is a de...

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Orange County
Orange County

Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a w...

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The Life Before This
The Life Before This

Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhoo...

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Pain Hustlers
Pain Hustlers

After losing her job, a single mom falls into a lucrative but ultimately dangerous scheme selling pr...

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Little Vegas
Little Vegas

Quirky serio-comedy about the unusual residents of a desert trailer park that mobsters want to turn ...

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There Goes the Neighborhood
There Goes the Neighborhood

A dying prisoner whispers the location of his loot to the facility's psychologist, who heads to the ...

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Wild About Books
Wild About Books

Librarian Molly McGrew introduces birds and beasts to the wonders of reading. And in no time, they a...

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Canada Far and Wide
Canada Far and Wide

Canada Far and Wide is a Circle-Vision 360° film attraction for World Showcase at Epcot that started...

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Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure
Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure

A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight a...

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Hope
Hope

The story of a town's secret, a family's crisis, and a young girl's struggle to reveal the truth....

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The Wild Robot
The Wild Robot

After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive ...

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Being Canadian
Being Canadian

What does it actually mean to be Canadian? This humorous documentary, featuring interviews with a wh...

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Easter Fever
Easter Fever

A jive-talking Easter Bunny named Jack decides to retire, so his friends throw him a crazy roast bef...

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Christmas with SCTV
Christmas with SCTV

Spend the holidays with the hilarious and beloved SCTV crew, starring John Candy, Rick Moranis, Mart...

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Double Negative
Double Negative

Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer....

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Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big
Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big

Edwurd Fudwupper spends all his time cooking up big fibs. But one day, he tells such a humdinger tha...

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Really Weird Tales
Really Weird Tales

The movie consists of three odd and strange tales that each teach a different lesson....

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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, the...

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The Wool Cap
The Wool Cap

This film, originally made for tv, stars William H. Macy as a mute superintendent of a apartment bui...

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Game 6
Game 6

Combining real and fictional events, this movie centers around the historic 1986 World Series, and a...

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The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood
The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood

A college professor wishes he could live in Victorian England. Through a scientific experiment that ...

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Twilight Park
Twilight Park

Twilight Park, a life size stop motion animated feature film about a boy Seraphim who along with How...

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Nothing Personal
Nothing Personal

Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to pr...

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Speaking of Sex
Speaking of Sex

A counselor, an expert on depression, and two attorneys try to help a couple who have marital proble...

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Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances t...

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Tears Are Not Enough
Tears Are Not Enough

On 10 February 1985, fifty-three of Canada's top performers gathered together to record the song Tea...

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Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses
Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses

King Randolph sends for his cousin, Duchess Rowena, to help turn his daughters, Princess Genevieve a...

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Betsy's Wedding
Betsy's Wedding

Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell jus...

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The Addams Family
The Addams Family

The Addams family's lives begin to unravel when they face-off against a treacherous, greedy crafty r...

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Extinct
Extinct

Op and Ed, two adorable donut-shaped animals - flummels - accidentally time-travel from 1835 to mode...

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John Candy: Comic Spirit
John Candy: Comic Spirit

A tribute to the late John Candy from the cast of Spaceballs....

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Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: A Schitt's Creek Farewell
Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: A Schitt's Creek Farewell

Interviews with the cast, creators, journalists and celebrity fans, plus behind-the-scenes footage f...

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Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble

Join iconic Canadian artists, activists, actors, and athletes as they share their stories of hope an...

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The Best of SCTV
The Best of SCTV

Guy Caballero and Edith Prickley try to persuade the FCC to renew SCTV's license....

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I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood
I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood

In this HBO special, comedian Martin Short appears in a series of sketches, vignettes and musical pe...

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Rome, Italian Style
Rome, Italian Style

On the SCTV Foreign Film Festival, Angelo loses control of his fantasies....

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Searching for Debra Winger
Searching for Debra Winger

Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the en...

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Andrea Martin... Together Again
Andrea Martin... Together Again

Nightclub performer makes a comeback....

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The Last Kids on Earth: Happy Apocalypse to You
The Last Kids on Earth: Happy Apocalypse to You

Help Jack and his monster-battling friends make choices to stay alive -- and have some fun -- in thi...

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Argylle
Argylle

When the plots of reclusive author Elly Conway's fictional espionage novels begin to mirror the cove...

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You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution...
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution...

A documentary about the legendary 1972 Toronto production of the musical about the life of Jesus, wh...

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Rabbit Ears - Finn McCoul
Rabbit Ears - Finn McCoul

Finn McCoul is the greatest champion in all of Ireland, but when he discovers that the brutish giant...

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John Candy: I Like Me
John Candy: I Like Me

Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-be...

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Friends of Gilda
Friends of Gilda

Friends of Gilda was a 1993 ninety-minute television special made by CBC Television to benefit the G...

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