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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Full filmography
- Grey's Anatomy (2005) as Ghost Lady
- Bones (2005) as Professor Marlene Twardosh
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) as Sister Elizabeth
- Desperate Housewives (2004) as Judge Sullivan
- Charmed (1998) as Madame Tereza
- One Tree Hill (2003) as Zelda
- Gilmore Girls (2000) as Professor Anderson
- ER (1994) as Anne Adelstein
- Star Trek: Voyager (1995) as Q-Judge
- Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) as Mrs. Van Dyke
- Malcolm in the Middle (2000) as Big Kathy
- The Practice (1997) as Pearson's Assistant
- Boston Legal (2004) as Judge Katherine Taylor
- Weeds (2005) as Irma
- Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993) as Natalia
- Nip/Tuck (2003) as Lena Workman
- Felicity (1998) as Professor Linda Cohen
- Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997) as Geraldine Collins (segment "The Landlady")
- Saved by the Bell: The New Class (1993) as Dr. McGrath
- Ally McBeal (1997) as Judge Saturn
- Eli Stone (2008) as Judge Gilberg
- Raising the Bar (2008)
- Drag Me to Hell (2009) as Mrs. Ganush
- In Justice (2006) as Bonnie Levin