Home Alone and Schitt's Creek stars pay tribute to late Catherine O'Hara — SkimNews
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- Macaulay Culkin, Annie Murphy, and Dan Levy paid tribute to their late co-star Catherine O'Hara at Monday's Emmy Awards in LA, with Culkin calling her "our mom" and joking "She may have forgotten me... twice!" in reference to her Home Alone character.
- Catherine O'Hara, who died in January at age 71, earned recognition for her final acting role as Patty Leigh in Seth Rogen's The Studio, which won her an Emmy and a Golden Globe nomination.
- Rob Reiner, killed last year alongside his wife, received a posthumous Emmy for his guest appearance in The Bear; Jamie Lee Curtis delivered an emotional tribute calling him a "cherished legend," noting the 48-year gap between his two Emmy wins set a new record, beating his father Carl Reiner.
- The broader in memoriam segment honored Hayden Panettiere, Tim Curry, James Van Der Beek, Dolly Parton, Farrah Fawcett, Nicholas Brendon, Anthony Head, and Michelle Trachtenberg, with Noah Kahan performing Bridge Over Troubled Water.
- Sally Field led the Dolly Parton tribute, describing the country star as "genuine, humble, supportive and blisteringly funny," while Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz acknowledged Buffy the Vampire Slayer cast members lost recently.
- Martin Short and Steve Martin were visibly brought to tears during the O'Hara tribute, which featured a giant image of a smiling O'Hara as the backdrop.
Why it matters: The tributes underscored O'Hara's cross-generational impact, with co-stars from 1990s family films (Culkin) and modern streaming comedy (Murphy and Levy) each crediting her warmth and humor—O'Hara's posthumous Emmy recognition for The Studio closes a five-decade career at its commercial and critical peak.
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