Seth Rogen accepts Catherine O’Hara’s posthumous SAG Actor Award

Seth Rogen accepted Catherine O’Hara’s posthumous comedy actress award at 2026 SAG Actor Awards

Seth Rogen accepted a posthumous SAG Actor Award on behalf of Catherine O’Hara at the 2026 ceremony in Los Angeles, one month after her death.

O’Hara won Female Actor in a Comedy Series for her role as Patty Leigh in The Studio. She is reported to be the first woman to receive a posthumous SAG Actor Award. The series’ co-creator and co-star Rogen took to the stage to collect the honour on her behalf.

“I was asked to assume the honor of accepting this award on O’Hara’s behalf. I know she would have been honored to receive this award from her fellow performers who I know she respected so much. She was such a big fan of all of yours,” Rogen said.

Reflecting on their time working together, he added, “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.”

He also shared an anecdote about O’Hara’s preparation process. “Pretty much every evening before she had a shooting day on our show, she would email me and Evan an email that always was pretty similar. It said, ‘Hello, I hope you’ll consider the following,’ and then there would be a completely rewritten version of the scene,” he said. “100 percent of the time, it made not just her character better, but it made the scene better and the entire show better as a whole.”

Rogen concluded, “We were lucky that we got to live in a world where she so generally shared her talents with us.”

O’Hara, a two-time Emmy winner, died on January 30 aged 71. The Studio also won Cast Ensemble in a Comedy Series.