Catherine O'Hara as Delia
After Barbara and Adam Maitland were killed in a car crash, they find themselves trapped as ghosts in their beautiful New England farmhouse. Their peace is disrupted when a yuppie family, the Deetzs, buy their house. The Maitlands are too nice and harmless as ghosts and all their efforts to scare the Deetzs away were unsuccessful. They eventually turn to another ghost 'Beetlejuice' for help..
Biography for Catherine O'Hara
Date of birth
4 March 1954
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Trivia
Sister of critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Mary Margaret O'Hara.
She was part of the group Northern Lights who sang the song "Tears Are Not Enough" which was on the We Are The World album.
Crowned Queen of Comedy after her years as a regular on SCTV. Catherine O'Hara has an almost religious cult following around the world.
A high school friend of Robin Duke at Burnhamthorpe Collegiate in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada. They first acted together in a school production of "Harvey".
Her sons were born in 1994 and 1997.
Is one of 7 children.
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: Vivacious, blond comedienne who was one of the mainstays of "SCTV," notably as the self-centered entertainer Lola Heatherton, who always told her audience, "I want to bear all your children!" O'Hara, a talented mimic blessed with superb comic timing and a flair for spontaneity, moved to features in the mid 1980s but to date has been cast in roles that really haven't drawn on her abilities. She was a hysterically vengeful barmaid in After Hours (1985), a gossipy friend in Heartburn (1986), and one of the in-laws in Betsy's Wedding (1990), for example-roles that could've been handled easily by any number of actresses. She did, however, get to cut loose as the arriviste yuppie who knocks off a mean version of "Banana Boat Song" in Beetlejuice (1988), and enjoyed a banner year in 1990, appearing as a romantic lead in Little Vegas as Macaulay Culkin's frantic mom in the hugely successful Home Alone (and its 1992 sequel), and under plenty of makeup as a grotesque distaff criminal in Dick Tracy More recently she provided the voices of Sally and Shock in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), played Allie Earp in Wyatt Earp and appeared in A Simple Twist of Fate with Steve Martin (both 1994), and Tall Tale (1995, as Calamity Jane).
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Links:
Mighty Wind, A (2003)
Searching for Debra Winger (2002) .... Herself
Orange County (2002) .... Cindy Beugler
Speaking of Sex (2001) .... Connie Barker
"Committed" (2001) TV Series
Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big (2000) (voice)
Best in Show (2000) .... Cookie Guggelman Fleck
... aka Dog Show! (2001) (Japan: English title)
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (2000) (TV) .... Herself
Bartok the Magnificent (1999) (V) (voice) .... Ludmilla
Life Before This, The (1999) .... Sheena
Late Last Night (1999) (TV) .... Shrink
Home Fries (1998) .... Mrs. Lever
Hope (1997) (TV) .... Muriel Macswain
Pippi Longstocking (1997) (voice) .... Mrs. Prysselius
... aka Pippi Langstrumpf (1998) (Germany)
... aka Pippi L�ngstrump (1997) (Sweden)
Last of the High Kings, The (1996) .... Cathleen
... aka Summer Fling (1998) (USA: video title)
Waiting for Guffman (1996) .... Sheila Albertson
Tall Tale (1995) .... Calamity Jane
... aka Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill (1995)
Simple Twist of Fate, A (1994) .... Mrs. Simon
Wyatt Earp (1994) .... Allie Earp
Paper, The (1994) .... Susan
Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993) (voice) .... Sally, Shock
... aka Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) (USA: complete title)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) .... Kate McCallister
There Goes the Neighborhood (1992) .... Jessie Lodge
... aka Paydirt (1992)
Little Vegas (1990) .... Lexie
Home Alone (1990) .... Kate McCallister
Betsy's Wedding (1990) .... Gloria Henner
Dick Tracy (1990) .... Texie Garcia
Andrea Martin... Together Again (1989) (TV) .... Dee Lee/Jane/Kitten/Holly Faun/Marcie
I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood (1989) (TV) .... Nancy Mae
"Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, The" (1988) TV Series (voice) .... Miss Malone
Beetlejuice (1988) .... Delia
Really Weird Tales (1987) (TV)
Heartburn (1986) .... Betty
Tears Are Not Enough (1985)
After Hours (1985) .... Gail
Last Polka, The (1984) (TV) .... Lemon Twin
Rock & Rule (1983) (voice) .... Aunt Edith
... aka Ring of Power (1983)
... aka Rock 'n' Rule (1983)
"SCTV Network 90" (1981) TV Series .... Lola Heatherton/Dusty Towne/Katharine Hepburn/Various (1981-1982)
... aka "SCTV Comedy Network" (1981) (USA: new title)
... aka "SCTV Network" (1982) (USA: new title)
"Steve Allen Comedy Hour, The" (1980) TV Series
Double Negative (1980) .... Judith
... aka Deadly Companion (1980)
Nothing Personal (1980) .... Audrey
Intergalactic Thanksgiving (1979) (TV) (voice) .... Ma Spademinder
Witch's Night Out (1978) (TV) (voice) .... Malicious
Rimshots, The (1976) (TV)
"Second City TV" (1976) TV Series .... Lola Heatherton/Other Roles (1976-1978)
... aka "SCTV" (1977) (USA)
"Coming Up Rosie" (1975) TV Series .... Myrna Wallbacker (1976-77)