Catherine O’Hara died on January 30, 2026, at the age of 71. And on September 14, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, her three on-screen children reunited for her.
Macaulay Culkin, who played her Kevin in ‘Home Alone’, remembered her as ‘encouraging, warm and funny’ and joked that his character was forgotten twice in the movies, but that he would never forget her. Annie Murphy, her Alexis in ‘Schitt’s Creek’, described O’Hara’s laughter as ‘a perpetual yes’ that invited everyone to join in. Dan Levy, her David in the series, which he co-created, said that she taught him always to say yes to his creative instincts.
The three agreed on a single word to call her: mom. As Noah Kahan closed the tribute with ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’, the entire theater fell silent.