Lorna Raver

Acting

Lorna Raver

Born
Died
(aged 81)
Birthplace
Pennsylvania, USA
Credits
37 titles

Biography

Lorna Raver (October 9, 1943 - May 12, 2025) was an American actress who has appeared in numerous plays, films, and television series. She is sometimes credited as Lorna Raver Johnson.

Born in York County, Pennsylvania, Raver had early experience performing at the Hedgerow Theater in Pennsylvania. She moved to New York City, appearing off-Broadway in the premieres of Last Days at the Dixie Girl Cafe and Between Daylight and Boonville. She then spent several years as a stage actress in Chicago and regionally before moving to Los Angeles, where she had many guest roles on TV and continued to work in live theater, including performances of The Seagull, Spinning into Butter, The Women, The American Plan, Oedipus Rex, and The Drama Coach, for which she won the Drama-Logue and LA Weekly awards. She also performs in radio drama.

On September 19, 2006, she began appearing as Rebecca Kaplan (previously played by Millie Perkins) on CBS's The Young and the Restless. She won wide critical acclaim as Mrs. Ganush in Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell. In addition to numerous other stage and television appearances, she is a notable audio book narrator for Tantor, Books on Tape and Blackstone Audio, frequently working with her domestic partner Yuri Rasovsky.

Signature work

Known For

Acting credits 37

YearTitleRole
2024 Pardon My Curse: The Making of Drag Me to Hell Film Self
2014 Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage Film Zoreh
2013 Rushlights Film Belle
2011 The Caller Film Rose Lazar
2011 Traffic Light TV Magda (1 ep)
2009 Armored Film Child Welfare Agent
2009 Drag Me to Hell Film Mrs. Ganush
2008 Raising the Bar TV (1 ep)
2008 Eli Stone TV Judge Gilberg (2 ep)
2007 Jane Doe: Ties That Bind Film Mrs. Wolcott
2006 In Justice TV Bonnie Levin (1 ep)
2005 Bones TV Professor Marlene Twardosh (1 ep)
2005 Weeds TV Irma (1 ep)
2005 Grey's Anatomy TV Ghost Lady (1 ep)
2005 Candor City Hospital Film
2004 Desperate Housewives TV Judge Sullivan (1 ep)
2004 Boston Legal TV Judge Katherine Taylor (2 ep)
2004 Clubhouse TV (1 ep)
2003 10-8: Officers on Duty TV Mrs. Cevallos (1 ep)
2003 One Tree Hill TV Zelda (1 ep)
2003 Nip/Tuck TV Lena Workman (1 ep)
2000 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation TV Sister Elizabeth (1 ep)
2000 Gilmore Girls TV Professor Anderson (1 ep)
2000 Malcolm in the Middle TV Big Kathy (1 ep)
1999 Stark Raving Mad TV Phyllis Bleck (1 ep)
1998 Charmed TV Madame Tereza (1 ep)
1998 Felicity TV Professor Linda Cohen (1 ep)
1997 Ally McBeal TV Judge Saturn (1 ep)
1997 Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction TV Geraldine Collins (segment "The Landlady") (1 ep)
1997 The Practice TV Pearson's Assistant (1 ep)
1996 Freeway Film Judge
1995 Star Trek: Voyager TV Q-Judge (1 ep)
1994 ER TV Anne Adelstein (1 ep)
1993 Saved by the Bell: The New Class TV Dr. McGrath (1 ep)
1993 Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman TV Natalia (1 ep)
1990 Beverly Hills, 90210 TV Mrs. Van Dyke (1 ep)
1990 Opportunity Knocks Film Eddie's Secretary
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