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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ellie Ng

Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek star Catherine O’Hara ‘brought love and light’

Catherine O’Hara has died (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Archive)

Tributes have poured in for Catherine O’Hara following her death, with the actress’s co-stars remembering how she brought “love and light” to the screen and beyond.

The Canadian-American actress, known for roles in Home Alone, comedy TV series Schitt’s Creek and the Beetlejuice films, died on Friday at the age of 71 at her home in Los Angeles “following a brief illness”, according to her agency CAA.

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