‘One of the greatest comic talents’: tributes paid to actor Catherine O’Hara

O’Hara, who won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her role in Schitt’s Creek, died on Friday at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness. Photograph: Danny Moloshok/Reuters

Tributes have poured in from the world of showbiz and politics for Catherine O’Hara, with the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, and Schitt’s Creek’s co-creator Dan Levy mourning the loss of a “legend” after the actor died at the age of 71.

O’Hara, who won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her role in the TV comedy series, died on Friday at her home in Los Angeles after a brief illness, according to her agency, CAA.