Lorna Raver
Lorna Raver (born October 9, 1943) is 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.
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Credits
- 2024 · Pardon My Curse: The Making of Drag Me to Hell as Self
- 2014 · Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage as Zoreh
- 2013 · Rushlights as Belle
- 2011 · The Caller as Rose Lazar
- 2009 · Armored as Child Welfare Agent
- 2009 · Drag Me to Hell as Mrs. Ganush
- 2008 · Raising the Bar as
- 2007 · Jane Doe: Ties That Bind as Mrs. Wolcott
- 2005 · Bones as Professor Marlene Twardosh
- 2005 · Weeds as Irma
- 2005 · Grey's Anatomy as Ghost Lady
- 2005 · Candor City Hospital as
- 2004 · Desperate Housewives as Judge Sullivan
- 2004 · Clubhouse as
- 2003 · One Tree Hill as Zelda
- 2000 · CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Sister Elizabeth
- 2000 · Gilmore Girls as Professor Anderson
- 2000 · Malcolm in the Middle as Big Kathy
- 1999 · Stark Raving Mad as Phyllis Bleck
- 1998 · Charmed as Madame Tereza
- 1998 · Felicity as Professor Linda Cohen
- 1997 · Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction as Geraldine Collins (segment "The Landlady")
- 1997 · The Practice as Pearson's Assistant
- 1996 · Freeway as Judge
- 1995 · Star Trek: Voyager as Q-Judge
- 1994 · ER as Anne Adelstein
- 1993 · Saved by the Bell: The New Class as Dr. McGrath
- 1990 · Beverly Hills, 90210 as