Lorna Raver

Personal Info

Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
October 9, 1943

Place of Birth:
Pennsylvania, USA

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Lorna Raver

Biography

Lorna Raver (born October 9, 1943) is 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

Filmography

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