Catherine O’Hara Wins Posthumous Actor Award at 2026 Ceremony
Catherine O’Hara was awarded the Actor for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series at the 2026 Actor Awards on Sunday night time for her function in The Studiotwo months after her sudden demise.
The viewers gave O’Hara an emotional standing ovation when her title was introduced. Seth Rogen accepted the award on her behalf, recalling her “genius” and kindness on the set of The Studiothe place she performed studio government Patty Leigh.
“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 big fans of all of yours,” Rogen stated. “I clearly you already know, have been reflecting on the time I used to be lucky sufficient to spend together with her, working together with her, and one thing that I’ve simply been marveling at over the previous couple of weeks was actually her potential to be beneficiant and sort and gracious, whereas by no means ever minimizing her personal skills and her personal potential to contribute to the work that we had been doing. She knew she might destroy, and he or she wished to destroy day by day on set. And I have never stated this to the opposite actors, as a result of I did not need them to get concepts, however just about, each night earlier than she had a taking pictures day on our present, she would e mail me and Evan, an e mail that was all the time fairly related, and stated, ‘Hello, I hope you may contemplate the next.’ And then there can be a very rewritten model of the scene she was in.”
Rogen continued, “And literally, 100 percent of the time, it made not just her character better, but it made the scene better and the entire show better as a whole. And 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.”
O’Hara died on Jan. 30 at the age of 71 after privately battling cancer.
O’Hara was one of the vital celebrated comic actresses of her generation. She emerged out of the Toronto chapter of the Second City, first garnering attention on the improvised and sketch troupe’s hit collection, SCTV. She went on to make memorable appearances in an array of flicks, together with the Home Alone collection, Beetlejuiceand Martin Scorsese’s After Hours. More lately, O’Hara earned broad acclaim (and a number of other awards) for her efficiency as Moira Rose on the hit TV collection Schitt’s Creek. Just final yr, she obtained extra Emmy nominations for her work on The Studio and The Last of Us.
