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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 9, 1943
Died
May 12, 2025
Place of Birth
Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- Lorna Raver Johnson
Lorna Raver
0.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
10.0
Self
Pardon My Curse: The Making of Drag Me to Hell
2024
3.9
Zoreh
Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage
2014
4.8
Belle
Rushlights
2013
6.2
Rose Lazar
The Caller
2011
5.8
Child Welfare Agent
Armored
2009
6.5
Mrs. Ganush
Drag Me to Hell
2009
6.6
Raising the Bar
2008
6.8
Judge Gilberg
Eli Stone
2008
5.2
Mrs. Wolcott
Jane Doe: Ties That Bind
2007
8.2
Professor Marlene Twardosh
Bones
2005
Credits
Pardon My Curse: The Making of Drag Me to Hell
as Self
2024
10.0
Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage
as Zoreh
2014
3.9
Rushlights
as Belle
2013
4.8
The Caller
as Rose Lazar
2011
6.2
Armored
as Child Welfare Agent
2009
5.8
Drag Me to Hell
as Mrs. Ganush
2009
6.5
Raising the Bar
2008
6.6
Eli Stone
as Judge Gilberg
2008
6.8
Jane Doe: Ties That Bind
as Mrs. Wolcott
2007
5.2
Bones
as Professor Marlene Twardosh
2005
8.2
Weeds
as Irma
2005
7.5
Grey's Anatomy
as Ghost Lady
2005
8.2
🎬
Candor City Hospital
2005
0.0
Desperate Housewives
as Judge Sullivan
2004
7.9
Boston Legal
as Judge Katherine Taylor
2004
7.9
Clubhouse
2004
3.5
One Tree Hill
as Zelda
2003
7.8
Nip/Tuck
as Lena Workman
2003
7.2
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Sister Elizabeth
2000
7.6
Gilmore Girls
as Professor Anderson
2000
7.9
Malcolm in the Middle
as Big Kathy
2000
8.5
🎬
Stark Raving Mad
as Phyllis Bleck
1999
6.5
Charmed
as Madame Tereza
1998
8.2
Felicity
as Professor Linda Cohen
1998
6.6
Ally McBeal
as Judge Saturn
1997
6.6
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
as Geraldine Collins (segment "The Landlady")
1997
7.2
The Practice
as Pearson's Assistant
1997
7.6
Freeway
as Judge
1996
6.4
Star Trek: Voyager
as Q-Judge
1995
7.8
ER
as Anne Adelstein
1994
7.8
Saved by the Bell: The New Class
as Dr. McGrath
1993
5.9
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
as Natalia
1993
7.6
Beverly Hills, 90210
as Mrs. Van Dyke
1990
7.3