File No. 917520 · Adjudicated

Catherine O'Hara

Actor / Comedian — Schitt's Creek, Home Alone, Beetlejuice, SCTV

Born

1954

Birthplace

TORONTO, ONTARIO

Citizenships

Canadianness Score

🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

5.0/ 5

Weighted across 2 scored criteria

Designation

Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁

Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.

Scorecard

Path A — born on Canadian soil

I. Origin

Born on Canadian soil

TORONTO, ONTARIO

Canadian parentage

Both parents Canadian

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Ontario

Lived in Canada by choice

Residency on record as an adult

Worked or filmed in Canada

Credits filed north of the 49th

III. Cultural evidence — not scored

Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.

Publicly claims to be Canadian

Says so, out loud

Canada claims them back

Claimed, enthusiastically

Fun fact

Won her first Emmy in 1982 for writing on SCTV, and her first acting Emmy 38 years later, at 66, for Schitt's Creek.

The verdict

Born and raised in Toronto, trained at Second City, and became a Canadian comedy legend before conquering Hollywood with Schitt's Creek. She's as Canadian as they come, eh — a national treasure who made the whole world fall in love with the Rose family.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable