Catherine O’Hara’s cause of death revealed after Home Alone star suffered ‘brief illness’
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Catherine O’Hara’s cause of death released by medical examiner
- Beloved actress Catherine O’Hara’s cause of death has been revealed after she died at age 71.
- The medical examiner attributed O’Hara’s death to a pulmonary embolism, or blood clot in the lungs, with rectal cancer named as an underlying cause, according to TMZ.
- The actress, celebrated for her roles in Home Alone, Beetlejuice and Schitt’s Creek, died on January 30. Her manager said at the time that she’d suffered a brief illness.
- Tributes poured in for O’Hara, including from Macaulay Culkin, who played her son in the Home Alone movies. “Mama. I thought we had time. I wanted more,” Culkin wrote.
- Shortly before her death, O’Hara had earned Emmy nominations for her work on The Last of Us and The Studio — the ninth and tenth of her career.
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