It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Catherine O’Hara earned the role of Sally in “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” Not only did she previously star in another Tim Burton vehicle with 1988’s “Beetlejuice,” but she was also featured prominently in another holiday hit with 1990’s “Home Alone.”
The film sees O’Hara star as Kate McCallister, the doting mother of the film’s young protagonist Kevin. When she and their large family unit travel to Paris and accidentally leave Kevin behind, she makes the long and arduous trek home to reunite with her son, coming across other quirky personalities along the way. O’Hara reprised the beloved role in the film’s 1992 sequel “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.” Interestingly enough, both “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Home Alone” were officially inducted into the National Film Registry in 2023.
Following “Nightmare,” O’Hara’s resume became stacked with various voice acting roles in films such as “Chicken Little,” “Monster House,” “Over the Hedge,” “When Marnie Was There,” and most recently Pixar’s “Elemental.” In 2012, she reunited with Burton on the stop-motion horror comedy “Frankenweenie.”
