Catherine O’Hara and her husband, Bo Welch, had the quintessential Hollywood love story. The late Home Alone actress, who died at the age of 71 in January 2026, met Bo while working together on a set. Afterward, their relationship took off, and they built a life together.
Get to know Bo and learn more about his relationship with Catherine here.
Catherine and Bo first met on the set of the 1988 film Beetlejuice, which became a Halloween cult classic. She played the character Delia Deetz, and Bo worked as a production designer.
“He talked to me all the time,” Catherine told People in a previous interview about Bo. “We’d hang out on the set, and we’d have some laughs. I thought, ‘He’s going to ask me out.’”
But he didn’t — not right away, at least, Catherine noted. She confessed feeling confused by the situation, and she eventually struck up a conversation with director Tim Burton about it.
“‘Bo Welch keeps talking to me every day but never asks me out,’” Catherine recalled asking Tim, to which he replied, “Let me see what I can do.”
After the filmmaker encouraged Bo to ask Catherine out. “Bo came up to me that day and said, ‘Our department’s going to a swap meet. You want to come?’” she said. The rest was history.
