Happy Birthday: Catherine O’Hara

Catherine O’Hara

Born: March 4, 1954 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Married to: Bo Welch (25 April 1992 – present) (2 children)

I never went to the prom or anything. I got asked by a couple of weird guys, but no one I wanted to show up at a formal with. Mostly I thought about being an actress. I wasn’t conscious of wanting to be a comic actress. I wasn’t really funny or anything, and I didn’t think about it. It wasn’t supposed to be ladylike for a girl to joke. To this day, I’ve found that it doesn’t matter what a guy looks like if he’s really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don’t hear men saying, “No she’s not pretty, but is she ever funny!”

[on doing voiceover work with Martin Short in ‘Frankenweenie’] In a live-action film, the focus is on…