Dixie Carter
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Catherine Anne O’Hara is a Canadian actress and screenwriter. She is known for her comedy work on Second City Televisionand Schitt’s Creekand in films such as After Hours (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Home Alone (1990), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024). Her other film appearances include the mockumentary films written and directed by Christopher Guest: Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006).
O’Hara won the 1982 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for SCTV Network, the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1999 film The Life Before This, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for the 2010 television film Temple Grandin. From 2015 to 2020, she starred as Moira Rose on the CBC sitcom Schitt’s Creek, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don’t get to keep doing that.
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I’m pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart, and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I’m not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you’re just a human being and one of God’s creatures, you can’t take anything that seriously.
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I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.
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I know. I’m lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have ’til December, right?
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Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.
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I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.
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