<P> The series stars Eugene Levy as Johnny Rose , a wealthy video store magnate , and Catherine O'Hara as his wife Moira , a formerly successful soap star . The family loses their fortune when their business manager fails to pay their taxes . They are forced to rebuild their lives with their sole remaining asset : a small town named Schitt 's Creek which they had bought their son as a joke birthday gift years before . The story revolves around the family 's life living in two adjacent rooms of a rundown motel with their pampered twenty - something adult children , David and Alexis , played by Dan Levy and Annie Murphy respectively . Additional cast includes Chris Elliott , Jennifer Robertson and Emily Hampshire . The show is based on a series of situations contrasting the once - rich family and their worldly big - city attitudes with sudden small - town living and the honest , down - to - earth , hard - working residents of Schitt 's Creek . </P>
<P> The series stars Eugene Levy as Johnny Rose , a wealthy video store magnate , and Catherine O'Hara as his wife Moira , a formerly successful soap star . The family loses their fortune when their business manager fails to pay their taxes . They are forced to rebuild their lives with their sole remaining asset : a small town named Schitt 's Creek which they had bought their son as a joke birthday gift years before . The story revolves around the family 's life living in two adjacent rooms of a rundown motel with their pampered twenty - something adult children , David and Alexis , played by Dan Levy and Annie Murphy respectively . Additional cast includes Chris Elliott , Jennifer Robertson and Emily Hampshire . The show is based on a series of situations contrasting the once - rich family and their worldly big - city attitudes with sudden small - town living and the honest , down - to - earth , hard - working residents of Schitt 's Creek . </P>
who plays the mom in schitt 's creek
who plays the mom in schitt 's creek
Catherine O'Hara
Catherine O'Hara