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Catherine O’Hara Receives Posthumous Actor Award for The Studio at SAG-AFTRA Ceremony

Seth Rogen accepted the peer-voted honor with a tearful tribute highlighting her on-set rewrites.

Overview

  • The audience delivered a standing ovation at Los AngelesShrine Auditorium during the Netflix-streamed ceremony.
  • Rogen recalled that O’Hara routinely emailed complete rewrites of her scenes the night before filming, which he said consistently elevated the material.
  • The Studio also won outstanding ensemble in a comedy series, and Rogen earned the male actor in a comedy series prize earlier in the night.
  • O’Hara died on Jan. 30 at 71; records listed a pulmonary embolism as the immediate cause of death with rectal cancer noted as an underlying condition.
  • The Los Angeles Times reported she is the first woman to receive an individual Screen Actors Guild trophy posthumously.