Overview
- Macaulay Culkin, joined by Dan Levy and Annie Murphy, led the In Memoriam segment at the Emmy ceremony on Tuesday, saying O’Hara “was my mom” and asking viewers to call their mothers.
- The tribute opened with short onstage remembrances and then moved into the traditional memorial sequence, accompanied by Noah Kahan’s performance of Bridge Over Troubled Water and visible audience emotion.
- Dan Levy and Annie Murphy recalled O’Hara’s contagious laugh and her creative role in shaping Moira Rose, citing examples such as the character’s wigs and theatrical choices.
- The moment underlined O’Hara’s five-decade career across SCTV, films like Home Alone and Beetlejuice, and her Emmy-winning turn as Moira Rose, and it sparked renewed public sharing of personal memories.
- Reports that O’Hara died from a pulmonary embolism related to rectal cancer come from a single outlet and are not widely corroborated in the coverage of the Emmy tribute.