{"id":226548,"date":"2026-03-05T05:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/happy-birthday-catherine-ohara-1954-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T05:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:45:16","slug":"happy-birthday-catherine-ohara-1954-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/happy-birthday-catherine-ohara-1954-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Catherine O&#8217;Hara | 1954 &#8211; 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/l.lj-toys.com\/?auth_token=sessionless%3A1772686800%3Aembedcontent%3A3616053%262179630%26%26%26youtube%26Xpn_aEbkI8Y%3A5ebf6d0b26e802a24899902415412245135542e0&amp;source=youtube&amp;vid=Xpn_aEbkI8Y&amp;moduleid=2179630&amp;preview=&amp;journalid=3616053&amp;noads=\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"lj_embedcontent\" allowfullscreen=\"\" name=\"embed_3616053_2179630\"><\/iframe><br \/>Catherine Anne O&#8217;Hara would have turned 72 today. She died January 30, 2026 from a pulmonary embolism, with rectal cancer as the underlying cause.<\/p>\n<p>I first saw Catherine O&#8217;Hara in 1989 with a VHS copy of Beetlejuice. We watched it as a family and it was a formulative moment. Catherine is on my mind not just because today would&#8217;ve been her birthday but Seth Rogen&#8217;s speech at the Actor Awards. Fuck Seth Rogen in general. The wonderously sad part was every person in the audience near tears.<\/p>\n<p>From Christopher Guest movies, Home Alone, Dick Tracey, The Nightmare Before Christmas, notable appearances in Searching for Debra Winger, John Candy: I Like Me and Bettlejuice. O&#8217;Hara met her husband while filming Beetlejuice in 1992. They remained together until her death. They had two children. <\/p>\n<p>She had two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xpn_aEbkI8Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Happy Birthday<\/a> <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/catherine-o-hara-moving-and-funny-final-interview-with-people-exclusive-11896354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read her final interview with People Magazine in 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132017836.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Anne O&#8217;Hara would have turned 72 today. She died January 30, 2026 from a pulmonary embolism, with rectal cancer as the underlying cause. I first saw Catherine O&#8217;Hara in 1989 with a VHS copy of Beetlejuice. We watched it as a family and it was a formulative moment. Catherine is on my mind not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-226548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}