Lorna Raver

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Lorna Raver

Acting October 9, 1943

Pennsylvania, USA

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 Joh…

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Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy

8.2 2005 TV Show
Bones

Bones

8.2 2005 TV Show
Malcolm in the Middle

Malcolm in the Middle

8.5 2000 TV Show
Drag Me to Hell

Drag Me to Hell

6.5 2009 Movie
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

7.6 2000 TV Show
Charmed

Charmed

8.2 1998 TV Show
Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives

7.9 2004 TV Show
Gilmore Girls

Gilmore Girls

7.9 2000 TV Show
One Tree Hill

One Tree Hill

7.8 2003 TV Show
Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: Voyager

7.8 1995 TV Show
ER

ER

7.8 1994 TV Show
Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills, 90210

7.3 1990 TV Show

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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

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  1. 2024
    Pardon My Curse: The Making of Drag Me to Hell

    Movie Self

  2. 2014
    Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage

    Movie Zoreh

  3. 2013
    Rushlights

    Movie Belle

  4. 2011
    The Caller

    Movie Rose Lazar

  5. 2011
    Traffic Light

    TV show Magda

  6. 2009
    Armored

    Movie Child Welfare Agent

  7. 2009
    Drag Me to Hell

    Movie Mrs. Ganush

  8. 2008
    Raising the Bar

    TV show

  9. 2008
    Eli Stone

    TV show Judge Gilberg

  10. 2007
    Jane Doe: Ties That Bind

    Movie Mrs. Wolcott

  11. 2006
    In Justice

    TV show Bonnie Levin

  12. 2005
    Bones

    TV show Professor Marlene Twardosh

  13. 2005
    Weeds

    TV show Irma

  14. 2005
    Grey's Anatomy

    TV show Ghost Lady

  15. 2005
    Candor City Hospital

    Movie

  16. 2004
    Desperate Housewives

    TV show Judge Sullivan

More credits
  1. 2004
    Boston Legal

    TV show Judge Katherine Taylor

  2. 2004
    Clubhouse

    TV show

  3. 2003
    10-8: Officers on Duty

    TV show Mrs. Cevallos

  4. 2003
    One Tree Hill

    TV show Zelda

  5. 2003
    Nip/Tuck

    TV show Lena Workman

  6. 2000
    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

    TV show Sister Elizabeth

  7. 2000
    Gilmore Girls

    TV show Professor Anderson

  8. 2000
    Malcolm in the Middle

    TV show Big Kathy

  9. 1999
    Stark Raving Mad

    TV show Phyllis Bleck

  10. 1998
    Charmed

    TV show Madame Tereza

  11. 1998
    Felicity

    TV show Professor Linda Cohen

  12. 1997
    Ally McBeal

    TV show Judge Saturn

  13. 1997
    Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

    TV show Geraldine Collins (segment "The Landlady")

  14. 1997
    The Practice

    TV show Pearson's Assistant

  15. 1996
    Freeway

    Movie Judge

  16. 1995
    Star Trek: Voyager

    TV show Q-Judge

  17. 1994
    ER

    TV show Anne Adelstein

  18. 1993
    Saved by the Bell: The New Class

    TV show Dr. McGrath

  19. 1993
    Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

    TV show Natalia

  20. 1990
    Beverly Hills, 90210

    TV show Mrs. Van Dyke

  21. 1990
    Opportunity Knocks

    Movie Eddie's Secretary