Home Alone’s Macaulay Culkin Mourns Death of “Mama” Catherine O’Hara
January 30, 2026 / /
Catherine O’Hara always made Macaulay Culkin feel right at home.
So much so that, while costarring as a mother-son duo in Home Alone and Home Alone 2 in the early ’90s, the two formed a bond that spanned decades, leading up to O’Hara’s death at age 71 on Jan. 30.
“Mama. I thought we had time,” Culkin, 45, who portrayed Kevin McCallister opposite O’Hara’s Kate McCallister in the beloved films, wrote on Instagram. “I wanted more. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you but I had so much more to say.”
“I love you. I’ll see you later,” he concluded before adding in the comments section, “I’m mad about this…”
Two years before O’Hara’s passing, the Emmy winner reunited with Culkin as he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
“Home Alone was, is and always will be a beloved global sensation,” O’Hara said at the December 2023 ceremony. “The reason families all over the world can’t let a year go by without watching and loving Home Alone together is because of Macaulay Culkin.”
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