Catherine O’Hara’s legacy continues to live on as the beloved actress won at the 2026 Actor Awards following her tragic passing.
On March 1, O’Hara, who starred in “The Studio,” was awarded for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series. And it was show creator Seth Rogen who accepted the award on her behalf and gave an emotional speech.
WATCH Seth Rogen Pay Tribute to Catherine O’Hara
“I was asked to assume the very sad honor of accepting this award on O’Hara’s behalf,” he said. I know she would have been honored to receive this award from her fellow performers, who I know she respected so much. She was such big fans of all of yours.”
Rogen went on to reveal what it was like working with O’Hara on set of the Apple TV series, saying that she had this ability to “destroy” her performance.
“Pretty much every evening before she had a shooting day on our show, she would email me and Evan [Goldberg] an email that always was pretty similar,” he recalled. “It said, ‘Hello, I hope you’ll consider the following,’ and then there would be a completely rewritten version of the scene she was in. And literally, 100 percent of the time, it made not just her character better, but it made the scene better and the entire show better as a whole.”
And with that, he knows that her incredible legacy is one that will continue to go on, saying that if “you have people in your lives that don’t know her work,” the best thing to do is to “show them O’Hara dancing to Harry Belafonte in ‘Beetlejuice.’ Show them O’Hara hurting her knee in ‘Best in Show‘ and doing that amazing thing where she hobbles around. And tell the people, as they are laughing, that that’s Catherine O’Hara, and we were lucky that we got to live in a world where she so generally shared her talents with us.”
Seth Rogen Remembers Catherine O’Hara as the ‘Funniest Person’
” Really don’t know what to say,” he captioned the post. “I told O’Hara when I first met her I thought she was the funniest person I’d ever had the pleasure of watching on screen. Home Alone was the movie that made me want to make movies. Getting to work with her was a true honour. She was hysterical, kind, intuitive, generous… she made me want to make our show good enough to be worthy of her presence in it. This is just devastating. We’re all lucky we got to live in a world with her in it.”
