Why I want to meet Catherine O'Hara
She is just unknown enough yet sher stays on the silver screen.
Catherine O'Hara (placeholder)
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).
(the above is kindly stolen from IMDB.com)
