But while he may have been acting like a disgruntled pelican, that first date left them both flying high. 

“Tim was right,” O’Hara acknowledged. “He made it happen.” 

Leaving Canada behind, “I moved to L.A. to be with him,” O’Hara told The New Yorker in January 2019. “Yeah, I moved for love.”

When she wed the Pennsylvania native, Burton gifted them a private tour of the Vatican. “We were in the pope’s closet, like, looking at garments and stuff,” O’Hara detailed to Kelly Clarkson. “It was crazy.”

And yet their life together was otherwise fairly ordinary. 

As they each stacked their impressive resumes—she spent the ’90s filming The Nightmare Before Christmas, Waiting for Guffman and back-to-back Home Alone flicks, as he collected accolades for his work on Edward Scissorhands, Men in Black and The Color Purple—they also built their family, welcoming son Matthew in 1994 and his little brother Luke three years later.