Catherine O’Hara, Emmy-Winning Comedian of ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Fame, Dies at 71

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Catherine O’Hara, a gifted Canadian-born comic actor and “SCTV” alum who starred as Macaulay Culkin’s harried mother in two “Home Alone” movies and won an Emmy as the dramatically ditzy wealthy matriarch Moira Rose in “Schitt’s Creek,” died Friday. She was 71. O’Hara died at her ...