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Seth Rogen is giving Catherine O’Hara her flowers at the 2026 Actor Awards.
The Studio star gave a heartfelt tribute to his late costar—who died Jan. 30 at age 71 following a brief illness—while accepting her posthumous win for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series during the March 1 ceremony.
“I was asked to assume the very sad honor of accepting this award on O'Hara's behalf,” Rogen told the audience at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. “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 big fans of all of yours.”
The 43-year-old—who won the award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for his own performance in the series earlier in the evening—offered insight into his experience working with the Canadian actress, highlighting her ability to “destroy” her performances while elevating the material.
“Pretty much every evening before she had a shooting day on our show, she would email me and Evan [Goldberg] an email that always was pretty similar,” he recalled. “It said, ‘Hello, I hope you'll consider the following,’ and then there would be a completely rewritten version of the scene she was in. And literally, 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 also shared how he hopes viewers will continue to share the Schitt’s Creek alum’s work for years to come.
“If you have people in your lives that don't know her work,” he concluded, “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 generally shared her talents with us.”
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Prior to the ceremony, Rogen—who plays film executive Matt Remick (Rogen) in the show—remembered O’Hara as an influential figure in his own comedy careers.
“I told O’Hara when I first met her I thought she was the funniest person I’d ever had the pleasure of watching on screen,” Rogen wrote on Instagram hours after her passing. “Getting to work with her was a true honour. She was hysterical, kind, intuitive, generous… she made me want to make our show good enough to be worthy of her presence in it.”
With five Actor nods this year, The Studio was the most-nominated series of the evening, having earned critical acclaim for its satirical insider take on the movie business. And while the Apple TV comedy was a work of fiction, Rogen and his collaborators did draw inspiration from real Hollywood figures—like an unnamed exec who apparently cried at an after-party when they weren’t thanked during a Golden Globes acceptance speech.
“We made a whole episode about that,” the Neighbors star said during a March 2025 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, “and the person who it's based on knows we made a whole episode about it and they, in no uncertain terms, yelled at me very recently.”
Unlike that mystery exec, this year’s Actor Award recipients have lots to celebrate. To see all of the night’s big winners, keep reading…
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
WINNER: Michelle Williams – Dying for Sex
Claire Danes – The Beast in Me
Erin Doherty – Adolescence
Sarah Snook – All Her Fault
Christine Tremarco – Adolescence
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
Jason Bateman – Black Rabbit
WINNER: Owen Cooper – Adolescence
Stephen Graham – Adolescence
Charlie Hunnam – Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Matthew Rhys – The Beast in Me
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Kathryn Hahn – The Studio
WINNER: Catherine O'Hara – The Studio
Jenna Ortega – Wednesday
Jean Smart – Hacks
Kristen Wiig – Palm Royale
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Ike Barinholtz – The Studio
Adam Brody – Nobody Wants This
Ted Danson – A Man on the Inside
WINNER: Seth Rogen – The Studio
Martin Short – Only Murders in the Building
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
Abbott Elementary
The Bear
WINNER: The Studio
Hacks
Only Murders in the Building
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Britt Lower – Severance
Parker Posey – The White Lotus
WINNER: Keri Russell – The Diplomat
Rhea Seehorn – Pluribus
Aimee Lou Wood – The White Lotus
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Sterling K. Brown – Paradise
Billy Crudup – The Morning Show
Walton Goggins – The White Lotus
Gary Oldman – Slow Horses
WINNER: Noah Wyle – The Pitt
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
The Diplomat
Landman
WINNER: The Pitt
Severance
The White Lotus
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Odessa A'zion – Marty Supreme
Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good
WINNER: Amy Madigan – Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Miles Caton – Sinners
Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Paul Mescal – Hamnet
WINNER: Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
Emma Stone – Bugonia
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Jesse Plemons – Bugonia
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
F1
Frankenstein
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
Andor
Landman
The Last of Us
Squid Game
Stranger Things
Watch The Actor Awards 2026 (formerly named the SAG Awards) live Sunday, March 1, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Netflix.
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