Catherine Anne
Catherine Anne O'Hara OOC, born March 4 1954, is a Canadian-American actress. O'Hara has been awarded numerous distinctions which include a Genie Award and a Golden Globe Award. O'Hara also won two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Canadian Screen Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2018, she was elected an Officer of Canada. She was also presented with the Governor General’s Performing Arts Lifetime Artistic Achievement Medal in 2020. O'Hara became famous as an actress as a member in 1974 of The Second City, an comedy troupe that was based in Toronto. Along with John Candy, O'Hara was part of the main cast of the sitcom Coming Up Rosie (1975-1978). In the following year, O'Hara and Candy began work on the sketch comedy series Second City Television (1976-1984) and she earned critical acclaim for both her performance as a comedic actress and as a writer. She was awarded an award called the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for the Variety Series in 1981. O'Hara, Steve Carell and Dwayne Colbert were added to the Second City artistic board in 2022.




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