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









