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Catherine Anne O'Hara (March 4, 1954 - January 30, 2026) was a Canadian-American actress and comedienne, who began her career at Second City Theatre in Toronto. She gained fame on SCTV alongside comedy icons like Rick Moranis and John Candy. Known for roles in films like "After Hours," "Beetlejuice," "Home Alone," and "The Nightmare Before Christmas," she was also renowned for her work in Christopher Guest's mockumentaries. Her versatility extends to voicing Grandma Frump in "The Addams Family." O'Hara received a Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award at the Governor General's Performance Arts Awards in 2020 and a Golden Globe in 2021 for her role in "Schitt's Creek," and two career Emmy Awards (one for Outstanding Writing "SCTV Network" in 1982 and one for Outstanding Lead Actress for "Schitt's Creek" in 2020). Her final roles were in the television series "The Last of Us" and "The Studio," both of which earned her Emmy nominations.
Catherine O'Hara
The Spider Lady
for The Spider Lady in Supergirl (Season 1)
Suggested by optimistic_writer
What if Supergirl was actually good? This is pretty much a redux of the CBS/CW show Supergirl with my own casting, my own ideas, and what I view would be a much better show. A young Kara Zor-El is sent with her infant cousin Kal-El to Earth before the destruction of their home planet Krypton. However, Kara's pod gets knocked off course and is sent into the Phantom Zone. Many years later she is somehow released from the Phantom Zone, and is then sent to Earth. When she arrives, she is found by the Danvers and finds out that her baby cousin Kal-El became the superhero, Superman but was killed a year before she arrived. Now seeming like she no longer has a purpose, she gets adopted by the Danvers and they rename her Linda. Many years after that, she is in college and interning at the Daily Planet where she finds out more about Superman. Through a certain course of events, Linda decides to fill the footsteps of her cousin and become: Supergirl.
