(Gray News) – A cause of death has been determined for Emmy-winning actress Catherine O’Hara, according to multiple reports.
O’Hara’s cause of death was listed as a pulmonary embolism, with rectal cancer as the underlying cause, according to ABC News.
O’Hara died at her home in Los Angeles “following a brief illness” at the age of 71 on Jan. 30.
O’Hara’s career was launched with the Second City comedy group in Toronto in the 1970s. It was there that she first worked with Eugene Levy, who would become a lifelong collaborator — and her “Schitt’s Creek” costar.
The two would be among the original cast of the sketch show “SCTV,” short for “Second City Television.” O’Hara would win her first Emmy for her writing on the show.
Her second, for best actress in a comedy series, came four decades later for “Schitt’s Creek,” a career-capping triumph and the perfect personification of her comic talents. She also won a Golden Globe and two SAG Awards for the role.
She’s also known for playing a mother who accidentally abandoned her child in the two “Home Alone” movies. The films were among the biggest box office earners of the early 1990s and their Christmas setting made them TV perennials.
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