Catherine O'Hara. Biography and creativity

Catherine O'Hara achieved a world celebrity, not only as an actress, but also as an author of screenplays, as well as a film director. With her talent, she achieved the love of viewers from different countries of the planet, of all ages.

Biography

O'Hara was born in 1954 in a family of Irish immigrants to Canada. The family was brought up only four children, two guys and two girls. In addition to Catherine, Mary Margaret, sister of the actress, succeeded as a singer.

Catherine O'Hara first took part in Saturday Night Live, when she was twenty years old. This was the beginning of the acting career of the girl. Soon, Catherine was invited to do a few more TV projects. The participation of the girl was not significant, but she was noticed, and she had the opportunity to try herself in different ways. A few years later, the director of the tape "One House" invited to his project little known at the time a girl named Katherine O'Hara.

Personal life of the actress also began to develop rapidly at that time. The woman is still married to the director and actor Bo Welch. The couple brought up two children.

Participation in feature films

The first film, which starred Catherine O'Hara, was the painting The Rimshots by Andrea Martin. The girl got a secondary role, but she was able to remember the audience. Before that, Kathryn had to film only in television projects, as well as voice cartoon characters. The first serious project for the girl was the film "The Beatlejouse" from the director Tim Burton, who was later awarded with the Oscar by the film critics. Undoubtedly, Catherine also made a lot of efforts to ensure that the tape was so successful.

The real popularity of the girl brought a role in two parts of the tape by Chris Columbus "Alone at home." The heroine of the girl was not in the center of the story, but, despite this, I remembered the audience. It was then that Catherine's career went up. O'Hara performed the role of the mother of the main character of the film story. Her screen son, Kevin, got into a real mess with serious criminals, but was able to cope with them in a very unusual way that parents did not know about.

After participating in the tape "Alone at home," not in one popular film starred Catherine O'Hara. Films "Penelope" Mark Palanski, "Temple Grandin" Mika Jackson, "The Last of the Great Kings" by David Kitting also enjoyed great popularity with the audience. Among the last full-length film stories, in which Catherine took part, is "I Love Your Wife" (Jeremiah S. Chechik) and "The Adult Children of Divorce" (Sue Zicherman). It is also worth noting the paintings "Mighty Wind" by Christopher Gets, "Decisive Game" by Michael Hoffman, in which Catherine also took part.

Work in serials

Katherine O'Hara in her youth was shot more in multi-series projects than in feature films. "Second City", Wayne and Shuster and "SSV Network Network 90" became the first series in the career of the actress. The girl also has experience working in animated series, namely in "Completely psychical misadventures by Ed Grimley". We remind you that in the tape Catherine voiced Miss Malon.

Multiseries did not bring much success to Catherine O'Hara. Films were able to glorify the actress, however, despite this, the series occupy a special place in her career. Katherine still takes part in multi-series paintings. Recently, the actress could be seen in "Harvey Bix", "What's on the inside" and "Shitts Creek." Now O'Hara is taking part in the creation of the continuation of the series "Lemony Snicket: 33 misfortunes." The actress also starred in the original story of the multi-series, which was released in 2004. The most popular serials with Katherine were the serial series "American Family", "The Client Is Always Dead," Tales from the Crypt, "" Studio 30 ".

Catherine as a screenwriter

Catherine O'Hara also enjoys great success as a screenwriter. The actress became the author of the plots of the films "Channel of the SSV" in 1983, "SSV Network Network 90" in 1981. Also the girl had to develop the history of Andrea Martin ... Together Again projects in 1989, The Best of SCTV in 1988. In addition, Catherine participated in the creation of the television series "Really strange stories" (1987), From Cleveland (1980), as well as a multi-series film "Second City TV" (1976-1981).

Debut in Directing

Katherine also has experience working on multi-series tapes as a stage director. O'Hara debuted as a director in 1990 with the series "As in the movie." The project was created for six years. The main roles in the film were performed by Brian Benben, Denny Dillon, Wendy Malik. In the tape, you can also see Chris Demetral, Dorian Wilson, Michael McKean. Other roles were performed by actors Jeff Joseph, Shawn Masterson, Kerry Clark.

The series tells about the young Marina Tapper. He wants to arrange his personal life, and therefore often goes on dates with different girls. Despite all the efforts, for some reason he can not find his love. All his feelings and emotions he reveals to the best friend Eddie Charles, who works as a presenter on the television program.

The second series, which was directed by Catherine, is "Beyond the possible". The multi-series was introduced to viewers in 1995 and was released until 2002.