Lorna Raver
Born: 1943-10-09 in Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 2025-05-12
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2024
2014
- Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage as Zoreh
2013
- Rushlights as Belle
2011
- The Caller as Rose Lazar
2009
- Drag Me to Hell as Mrs. Ganush
- Armored as Child Welfare Agent
2008
- Eli Stone as Judge Gilberg
- Raising the Bar
2007
- Jane Doe: Ties That Bind as Mrs. Wolcott
2005
- Grey's Anatomy as Ghost Lady
- Bones as Professor Marlene Twardosh
- Weeds as Irma
- Candor City Hospital
2004
- Desperate Housewives as Judge Sullivan
- Boston Legal as Judge Katherine Taylor
- Clubhouse
2003
- One Tree Hill as Zelda
- Nip/Tuck as Lena Workman
2000
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Sister Elizabeth
- Malcolm in the Middle as Big Kathy
- Gilmore Girls as Professor Anderson
1999
- Stark Raving Mad as Phyllis Bleck
1997
- The Practice as Pearson's Assistant
- Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction as Geraldine Collins (segment "The Landlady")
- Ally McBeal as Judge Saturn
1996
- Freeway as Judge
1995
- Star Trek: Voyager as Q-Judge
1994
- ER as Anne Adelstein
1993
- Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Natalia
- Saved by the Bell: The New Class as Dr. McGrath