March 1, 2026Updated March 2, 2026, 12:29 a.m. ET
Catherine O’Hara’s former colleagues are paying tribute to the late star of “The Studio” on the Actor Awards.
During the awards ceremony in Los Angeles on March 1, Seth Rogen took the stage to honor O’Hara, who died on Jan. 30 from a pulmonary embolism, in keeping with her loss of life certificates, which stated one other contributing trigger was rectal most cancers. She was 71.
O’Hara posthumously gained the Actor Award for greatest feminine actor in a comedy sequence for her work on “The Studio.” In the Apple TV comedy that satirizes Hollywood, the “Home Alone” star performed a fictional producer, who’s a mentor to Seth Rogen’s character.
“I was asked to assume the very sad honor of accepting this award on O’Hara’s behalf,” Rogen stated on stage. “I know she would have been honored to receive this award from her fellow performers, who I know she respected so much. She was such a big fan of all of yours.”
Seth Rogen remembers Catherine O’Hara as ‘beneficiant and sort and gracious’
“I obviously have been reflecting on the time I was fortunate enough to spend with her and working with her,” Rogen added. “And something that I’ve just been marveling at over the last few weeks was really her ability to be generous and kind and gracious while never, ever minimizing her own talents and her own ability to contribute to the work that we were doing. She knew she could destroy and she wanted to destroy every day on set.”
Throughout Rogen’s speech, the cameras reduce to a few of O’Hara’s associates and co-stars, together with Sarah Paulson, Jenna Ortega and Rose Byrne, all of whom might be seen combating again tears.
Rogen was visibly emotional as he recalled how most evenings earlier than filming “The Studio,” O’Hara would e mail him saying, “‘Hello, I hope you’ll consider the following!’ And then there would be a completely rewritten version of the scene that she was in. And literally 100% of the time, it made not just her character better, but it made the scene better and the entire show better as a whole. She really showed that you can be a genius and be kind, and one of those things does not have to come at the expense of the other in any way, shape, or form.”
Seth Rogan encourages folks to share Catherine O’Hara’s work
The actor and comic concluded by encouraging folks to share O’Hara’s work with each other.
“If you have people in your lives that don’t know her work ‒ if they’re kids in your lives or just people who are out of touch or stupid or something ‒ just show them O’Hara dancing to Harry Belafonte in ‘Beetlejuice,’ ” Rogen stated.
“Show them O’Hara hurting her knee in ‘Best in Show’ and doing that amazing thing where she hobbles around. Tell the people as they are laughing, ‘That’s Catherine O’Hara, and we were lucky that we got to live in a world where she so generally shared her talents with us.'”
For her position on “The Studio,” O’Hara was additionally nominated ultimately yr’s Emmy Awards and January’s Golden Globes. She didn’t attend the Golden Globes, which had been held lower than three weeks earlier than her loss of life.
“The Studio” was nominated for 5 Actor Awards this yr, successful three, together with greatest efficiency by an ensemble in a comedy sequence. Earlier within the night time, the freshman comedy additionally took house a greatest actor award for Rogen.
Rogen beforehand paid tribute to O’Hara in an Instagram post in January, writing that it was a “true honour” attending to work along with her on “The Studio.” He added, “This is just devastating. We’re all lucky we got to live in a world with her in it.”
“The Studio” star Chase Sui Wonders also posted that O’Hara “radiated goodness and light,” whereas Kathryn Hahn wrote that her costar on the present “inspired me at every single turn, as an artist and a human,” and Ike Barinholtz said he is “so profoundly sad she’s somewhere else now” however “so incredibly grateful I got to spend the time I did with her.”
Contributing: Anthony Robledo and KiMi Robinson
