Seth Rogen got teary-eyed while accepting an award on behalf of Catherine O’Hara. Rogen accepted the Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series for O’Hara. Notably, the late actress starred in the satirical comedy series The Studio as Patty Leigh. Rogen, who also serves as the series’s co-creator, delivered an emotional speech as the audience applauded the heartwarming tribute.
Seth Rogen accepts Catherine O’Hara’s awards at Actor Awards 2026
Seth Rogen called it a “very sad honor” as he accepted an award on behalf of the late Catherine O’Hara. Rogen read out his speech with a solemn expression as the fellow attendees cheered for him.
He shared, “I know she would have been honored to receive this award from her fellow performers, whom I know she respected so much. She was such a big fan of all of yours,” as the camera panned on his co-star Kathryn Hahn, who looked emotional.
Rogen continued, “I, obviously, have been reflecting on the time I was fortunate enough to spend with her and working with her. And something that I’ve just been marveling at over the last few weeks was really her ability to be generous and kind and gracious, while never, ever minimizing her own talents and her own ability to contribute to the work that we were doing. She knew she could destroy, and she wanted to destroy every day on set.”
Finally, the 43-year-old actor urged the audience to introduce their children and loved ones to O’Hara’s incredible body of work.
He remarked, “If you have people in your lives that don’t know her work, if they’re kids in your lives, or just people who are out of touch or stupid or something, just show them O’Hara dancing to Harry Belafonte in Beetlejuice. Show them O’Hara hurting her knee in Best in Show and doing that amazing thing where she hobbles around, and tell the people, as they are laughing, that that’s Catherine O’Hara, and we were lucky that we got to live in a world where she so generously shared her talents with us.”
