For some folks, it's the Home Alone movies that they link to you; for others, it's the Beetlejuice set. For yet others, it's SCTV and the many characters you portrayed throughout the series, including my favorite, the damaged but mirthful Lola Heatherton.
There's also Moira Rose on Schitt's Creek, as well as your work (on screen and voiced) in Dick Tracy 1990 (in a clever, little cameo), The Addams Family 2019, Frankenweenie 2012, A Nightmare Before Christmas (as Sally), Monster House, A Monster in Paris, What Lives Inside, Bartok the Magnificent, The Wild Robot, Elemental, Tall Tale (as Calamity Jane), Wyatt Earp 1994, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Surviving Christmas, Intergalactic Thanksgiving, Easter Fever, Chicken Little, Over the Hedge, The Life Before This, Mamma Bear 2, Where the Wild Things Are 2009, Game 6, The Last of the High Kings, When Marni Was There, Extinct, Pippi Longstocking 1996, A Simple Twist of Fate, The Paper, Speaking of Sex, Killers, There Goes the Neighborhood, Home Fries, Little Vegas, Betsy's Wedding, Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big, A.C.O.D., The Right Kind of Wrong, Hope, Late Last Night, Orange County, Pain Hustlers, Temple Grandin, Penelope, Dave Thomas - The Incredible Time Travels of Henry Osgood, For Your Consideration, Being Canadian, Canada: Far and Wide, Searching for Debra Winger, John Candy: I Like Me and those uproarious mockumentaries, The Last Polka, For Your Consideration, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman and The Mighty Wind.
Your television roles (whether long or short term) are pretty darn special too, including The Studio (as Patty Leigh), Skylanders Academy, Central Park, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, Wayne and Schuster, Come Up Rosie, Morton & Hayes, The Outer Limits 1997, Tales from the Crypt, Really Weird Tales, The Hidden Room, The Last of Us, Six Feet Under, Odd Job Jack, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, The Magic School Bus Rides Again, The Last Kids on Earth, Harvey Breaks, Glenn Martin DDS, Dr. Kratz Professional Therapist, The Larry Sanders Show, I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood, The Dave Thomas Comedy Show, Andrea Martin ... Together Again, The Steve Allen Comedy Hour, George Burns Comedy Week, Sophia the First, Saturday Night Live, MAD TV, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Kids in the Hall, Married ... with Children, Modern Family, Oh Baby and Whose Line Is It Anyway?
You were always funny as heck, Ms. O'Hara, and quite a attractive comedian, at that. Your passing caused a jolt, leaving a deep hole in our hearts. However, your decades of varied characterizations will abide and ferment, bringing us boundless joy whenever your sprightly spirts fills our eyes and warms our hearts.
