It is painful to have to write about Catherine O’Hara, so alive and lively a presence, in the past tense. — from “SCTV” to “Schitt’s Creek” to “The Studio,” on whose second season she was scheduled to start work, when she died, Friday at 71. Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara in scene from “Schitt’s Creek.” The actors worked together frequently over the years. (PopTV)“I like to think she’s really threatened by this small-town life — because she’s been there, you know?” O’Hara said back when the series began. I had the luck to speak with O’Hara several times over the run of the series.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 31, 2026 11:25 UTC