| Catherine O'Hara  Born: 4-Mar-1954
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Comic, Actor Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Delia in Beetlejuice Catherine O'Hara is a former player in the Toronto comedy troupe Second City, which she joined in 1974, and on the related program SCTV. In film, she is best remembered for her roles in Home Alone, After Hours, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, or A Mighty Wind.
Her sister, Mary Margaret O'Hara, is a respected but, shall we say avant garde jazz-country-reggae-pop-improvisational singer, who once said of her own career, "I have a long history of being told I have no rhythm, and of people saying 'I've heard chickens sing better than that.'"
Sister: Mary Margaret O'Hara (singer-songwriter-performance artist)
Husband: Bo Welch (film director, m. 1992, two children)
Son: Dylan (b. 1994)
Son: Matthew (b. 1997)
Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "It" List Scene-Stealer
Canada's Walk of Fame 2007
Second City
Irish Ancestry
TELEVISION
SCTV
Celebrity Poker Showdown Contestant (2005)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
For Your Consideration (10-Sep-2006)
Penelope (8-Sep-2006)
Brother Bear 2 (17-Aug-2006) [VOICE]
Monster House (15-Jun-2006)
Over the Hedge (29-Apr-2006) [VOICE]
Chicken Little (3-Nov-2005) [VOICE]
Game 6 (2005)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (17-Dec-2004)
The Wool Cap (21-Nov-2004)
Surviving Christmas (22-Oct-2004)
A Mighty Wind (12-Mar-2003)
Searching for Debra Winger (16-May-2002) Herself
Orange County (7-Jan-2002)
Speaking of Sex (2001)
Best in Show (8-Sep-2000)
Bartok the Magnificent (16-Nov-1999) [VOICE]
The Life Before This (15-Sep-1999)
Late Last Night (20-Jun-1999)
Home Fries (16-Sep-1998)
Hope (19-Oct-1997)
The Last of the High Kings (6-Dec-1996)
Waiting for Guffman (21-Aug-1996)
Tall Tale (24-Mar-1995)
A Simple Twist of Fate (2-Sep-1994)
Wyatt Earp (24-Jun-1994)
The Paper (18-Mar-1994)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (13-Oct-1993) [VOICE]
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (20-Nov-1992)
There Goes the Neighborhood (30-Oct-1992)
Home Alone (16-Nov-1990)
Betsy's Wedding (22-Jun-1990)
Dick Tracy (15-Jun-1990)
Beetlejuice (30-Mar-1988)
Heartburn (25-Jul-1986)
After Hours (13-Sep-1985)
Rock & Rule (5-Aug-1985) [VOICE]
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