Catherine O'Hara

Catherine O'Hara
Date of Birth: 04 Mar 1954
Country: Canada
Total Credits at Criticker: 58 (Actor), 1 (Director)
Biography submitted by Dunstan-xxx
Titles you haven't rated - Actor (58) | Director (1)
Beetlejuice
Michael Keaton is the name in laughter from the hereafter as an obnoxious poltergeist conjured up to bedevil an unwanted family of oddballs. (Warner Bros)
Best in Show
The owners (and handlers) of five show dogs head for the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show. A film crew interviews them as they prepare for the trip, arrive at Philly's Taft Hotel, and compete. From Florida come the Flecks: she keeps running into old lovers. A wordless ancient in a wheelchair and his buxom trophy wife who may have a thing for the dog's handler own the two-time defending best in show, a poodle... (imdb)
Home Fries
Pregnant Sally unknowingly falls for the stepson of the deceased father of her baby and has to deal with his homicidal family.
Lemony Snicket\
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune. (imdb)
A Mighty Wind
Mockumentary captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen as they prepare for a show at The Town Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter. (imdb)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Returning to big screen haunts for the first time in seven years, Halloweentown's celebrated Pumpkin King, Jack Skellington, and a colorful cast of assorted ghosts, ghouls, and goblins, are back to scare up plenty of tricks and treats as holidays collide with chaotic and comical consequences in this stop-motion animated musical-fantasy. (Touchstone Pictures)
Orange County
Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his disfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends the wrong application. So, Shaun goes to great lengths with a little help from his girlfriend Ashley and his drugged-out loser brother Lance to get into Stanford any way they see fit. (imdb)
Surviving Christmas
Facing another Christmas alone, Drew Latham (Affleck) decides to go back to his idyllic childhood home to recall the family holidays of his youth. There is, however, one problem: the people living there now are not Drew's family. (DreamWorks)
Waiting for Guffman
A town of Blaine, Missouri is preparing for celebrations of its 150th anniversary. Corky St.Clair, an off-off-off-off-off-Broadway director is putting together an amateur theater show about the town's history, starring a local dentist, a couple of travel agents, a Dairy Queen waitress, and a car repairman. He invites a Broadway theater critic Mr. Guffman to see the opening night of the show.
Chicken Little
This epic tale presents a new twist to the classic fable of a young chicken who causes widespread panic when he mistakes a falling acorn for a piece of the sky. (Disney)
Game 6
Written by acclaimed writer Don DeLillo, Game 6 is an intelligent, witty, unsettling tale of one man's encounter with his demons, his passions and his infatuation with failure. (Kindred Media Group)
After Hours
Paul meets Marcy at a coffee shop after work, and gets her phone number. He calls her, she asks him to come over (imdb)
A Simple Twist of Fate
His life was emotionally closed off from the world, until an orphaned baby showed up at his house. (imdb)
Home Alone
An eight year-old, who is accidentally left behind while his family flies to France for Christmas, has to defend his home against idiotic burglars. (imdb)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Kevin McCallister is back. But this time he's in New York City with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his very own playground. But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are bound for New York too, plotting a huge holiday heist...
The Paper
Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent... (imdb)
Over the Hedge
A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating...and learns a lesson about family himself. (imdb)
Intergalactic Thanksgiving
A family goes to another planet that is about to be destroyed due to greed causing the inside to become hollow.
Monster House
Columbia Pictures and executive producers Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg present Monster House, an exciting and hilarious thrill-ride tale about three kids who must do battle with a mysterious house that threatens anyone who crosses its path. (Columbia Pictures)
For Your Consideration
Christopher Guest focuses his lens on Hollywood's obsession with awards in this straightforward narrative about the little indie that could and its fragile and frantic mob of actors, crewmembers, media figures, executives and various hangers-on. (Warner Independent Pictures)
Penelope
Penelope is a modern day offbeat fable about a young woman who, having spent her life trapped by a family curse sets out to find love and discover her true self. [Original Release 2006 at the Toronto Film Festival] (imdb)
Pippi Longstocking
Pippi is a little girl who lives alone in her house, while her father is sailing the seas. With Pippi we meet her horse, her monkey and her two friends Tommy and Anika. Together they go on many journeys through the neighborhood. (imdb)
Tall Tale
A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. (imdb)
Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses
King Randolph sends for his cousin Duchess Rowena to help turn his daughters, Princess Genevieve and her 11 sisters, into better ladies. But the Duchess takes away all the sisters fun, including the sisters favorite pastime: dancing. Thinking all hope is lost they find a secret passageway to a magical land were they can dance the night away. But what happens when their father suddenly turns ill? Will they be able to save him in time? (imdb)
Betsy\
A father anxious to throw a lavish wedding for his not so keen daughter falls foul of his depleted finances and has to enlist the help of his brother in law, who has Mob connections.
Bartok the Magnificent
Bartok the Magnificent (1999) - Direct-to-Video
Sequel to the animated feature Anastasia. Bartok, the bat from the first movie, sets out to uncover the whereabouts of the lost prince.
Away We Go
A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.
The Rutles 2: Can\
After sitting on a shelf at Warner Brothers for over a year, the much anticipated sequel to Eric Idle and Gerard Corvin's 1978 mockumentary, is finally on release, revealing the final exploits of The Rutles as they do a reunion tour of America.
Where the Wild Things Are
Max, a rambunctious and sensitive boy feels misunderstood at home and escapes to where the Wild Things are. He lands on an island where he meets mysterious and strange creatures whose emotions are as wild and unpredictable as their actions.
The Wool Cap
The Wool Cap (2004) - TV Movie
This TV movie (a remake of the 1962 Jackie Gleason film Gigot) stars William H. Macy as Charles Gigot, the mute superintendent of a run-down apartment building who solemnly goes about his daily work. But his life changes when a young woman leaves her daughter Lou (Keke Palmer) with him, asking him to look after her for a bit. When it appears that Lou has been abandoned, Gigot reluctantly becomes her guardian and the two soon form an unusual bond.
The Last of the High Kings
1977. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer organizing a beach party, having lustful thoughts about two girls he believes are unobtainable and fending off the advances from a visiting American family friend, all whilst coping with his oddball family.
Temple Grandin
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling. (imdb)
Killers
A vacationing woman meets her ideal man, leading to a swift marriage. Back at home, however, their idyllic life is upset when they discover their neighbors could be assassins who have been contracted to kill the couple.
The Last Polka
Mockumentary following an aging polka band on its last tour. (imdb)
Really Weird Tales
The movie consists of three odd and strange tales that each teach a different lesson. (imdb)
There Goes the Neighborhood
Willis Embry, who is a psychologist in a jail, was left by his girl-friend. He has no time to be sad about it because an old man, who is very ill, tells him something about a robbery and the millions of dollars hidden somewhere. The old man asks Willis to find it and give a part of it to his relative, and he can keep the rest. In the next door some bad guy hears it and this causes the complications ... Written by Kornel Osvart (imdb)
Frankenweenie
Young Victor conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous, consequences. (imdb)
A.C.O.D.
Carter is a well-adjusted Adult Child of Divorce. So he thinks. When he discovers he was part of a divorce study as a child, it wreaks havoc on his family and forces him to face his chaotic past. (sundance.org)
The Right Kind of Wrong
An eccentric would-be writer and full-time dishwasher does everything and anything to prove to his skeptical inamorata that they are meant to be, in this winsome romantic comedy from director Jeremiah Chechik (Benny & Joon). (tiff.net)
The Life Before This
Several innocent bystanders are injured or killed when two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into the neighborhood cafe. (imdb)
Nothing Personal
Suzanne Somers, an environmentally concerned lawyer, was hired by Donald Sutherland to halt the construction on a breeding ground of endangered species of seals.
SCTV
SCTV (1976) - TV Series
The staff of Melonville's TV station put on programming that is unique in its own silly way. (imdb)
Schitt\
Schitt's Creek (2015) - TV Series
When rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, and his family suddenly find themselves broke, they are forced to leave their pampered lives to regroup in Schitt's Creek. (imdb)
The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley
The adventures of comedian Martin Short's greatest sketch character. (imdb)
Little Vegas
A cast of misfits, refugees from checkered pasts, alcoholic binges and unrequited loves, each seek something different from this scorched wasteland and each other. (imdb)
Extinct
Two Flummels (an extinct species of fluffy rabbit-like creatures with holes in their center) find themselves transported from 1835 to modern day Shanghai.
Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: A Schitt\
Interviews with the cast, creators, and celebrity fans of Schitt's Creek as the show comes the end of its surprisingly popular run.
Witch\
A witch, disgruntled by the fact that no one takes Halloween seriously anymore, decides to stir things up and disrupt the social gathering in her old house as well as turn a couple of kids who love monsters into actual monsters.
Modern Family
Elemental
In a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman named Ember Lumen and a go-with-the-flow guy named Wade Ripple meet and fall in love, despite their opposing elements. Ember struggles to control her fiery temper, while Wade is always up for an adventure. When their worlds collide, they must learn to work together to save the city and discover that they have more in common than they thought.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
This is a follow-up to the comedy Beetlejuice (1988), about a ghost who's recruited to help haunt a house (imdb.com).
Argylle
An introverted spy novelist is drawn into the activities of a sinister underground syndicate (imdb.com).
Pain Hustlers
Liza dreams of a better life for herself and her daughter. She gets a job at a bankrupt pharmacy, and Liza's guts catapult the company and her into the high life, putting her in the middle of a criminal conspiracy.
SCTV Network
SCTV Network (1981) - TV Series
After a successful Canadian run as Second City TV on Global and SCTV on CBC, the cast packed up and moved to America (theoretically) when NBC offered them a timeslot under the title SCTV Network 90. With them, they brought their unique, quirky characters, their personalities, and the shows they had appeared on. (imdb)
The Wild Robot
A robot — ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
The Studio
The Studio (2025) - TV Series
Follows a legacy Hollywood movie studio striving to survive in a world where it is increasingly difficult for art and business to live together. (imdb)
The Outer Limits