Catherine O'Hara Didn't Mince Words When Admitting Donald Trump Made Her 'Skin Crawl'

Catherine O'Hara died on January 30 and will be remembered for many iconic roles in film and television, but it's the first two "Home Alone" movies that brought her the most mainstream attention. Although she didn't share the screen with him, O'Hara and Donald Trump are both in "Home Alone 2," but the actor had nothing nice to say about the U.S. president in a March 2025 interview on TheWrap's "Unwrapped" podcast.

O'Hara was born in Toronto and first found comedy success in Second City Toronto and Canada's "SCTV." So when the issue of President Trump wanting to make Canada the 51st state came up, she unsurprisingly didn't hold back, telling the hosts: "Makes me just really want to be in Ontario, Canada, right now. It makes my skin crawl."

O'Hara lived in the United States for decades, making a career in Hollywood, where she starred in the likes of "Beetlejuice" and "Waiting for Guffman," voicing characters in animated movies such as "Frankenweenie," and, in her last film role, "The Wild Robot." In 1994, she purchased a home in Los Angeles, California, the same city she would die in almost 32 years later. O'Hara loved Canada, but she never abandoned the country that had become her second home with her husband, Bo Welch, and their two sons, no matter who was in the White House.

Catherine O'Hara's later years were more focused on television works thanks to "The Last of Us" and "The Studio," both of which earned her Emmy nominations. However, a huge chapter in the final act of her career saw O'Hara going back to her home country roots as one of the stars of the massively popular "Schitt's Creek," a Canadian series produced by CBC Television, which was stacked with fellow actors from Canada, Eugene Levy, Daniel Levy, Annie Murphy, and Emily Hampshire.

In her chat with the women-centric "Unwrapped" podcast, O'Hara shared the fears she had. "Right now, the political climate scares me for women." It's understandable why this was, but she never backed down and settled for simple roles, like many older women are constrained to. Instead, O'Hara fought back by representing her country proudly and showing how badass women of a certain age can be. 

In "Schitt's Creek," Moira Rose was wild and eccentric, yet so strong and unafraid. With her very last part, as Patty Leigh in "The Studio," O'Hara played a studio exec who loses it all, only to claw her way out and refuse to give up. Fittingly, she starred in "The Studio," an American-made series, with another famous Canadian, Seth Rogen.