Catherine O’Hara appeared noticeably thin in her last public appearance before her death on Friday, January 31.
The award-winning actress’s final appearance was at the 2025 Angel Awards back in October. The event was held at the Proper Hotel Santa Monica in Los Angeles, California.
Despite her very frail appearance, the star was still dressed as fashionably as ever in a striped dark green pantsuit. She wore her hair tied back and accessorized with her signature black, thick-rimmed glasses.
O’Hara was accompanied by her husband, Bo Welch, at the event. The pair were all smiles while posing alongside friends and getting ready to bid at the auction, which was held to raise money for Project Angel Food. This organization helps to provide food for the vulnerable, especially those “facing critical and life-threatening illnesses”.
O’Hara was known for her generous spirit and her dedication to a variety of different charities, including the Terry Fox Foundation, which has raised over $950 million for cancer research. It was founded in memory of a young athlete named Terry Fox, who was diagnosed with cancer at only 18-years-old. O’Hara has represented the organization in the past as a spokesperson, encouraging supporters to “Keep Terry’s dream alive.”
She was also a longtime supporter of Upward Bound House, an organization that helps provide housing for the homeless of Los Angeles. She emphasized the importance of this organization at an event in 2024.
“They stay in touch with other homeless shelters, organizations, and agencies in Los Angeles to find homeless families with children,” she said at the time. “So instead of separating children from their parents — as if they need that in those moments — they set them up in an apartment.”
“They provide them not only a home, but all of their specific needs for that family, for those children, work, school, any kind of counseling, and meals. And within a year, in most cases, they have moved the families out to their own permanent homes,” she continued.
O’Hara was 71 years old at the time of her death.