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Lorna Raver

Lorna Raver

Born: 1943-10-09 • 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 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
Pardon My Curse: The Making of Drag Me to Hell poster
Pardon My Curse: The Making of Drag Me to Hell
2024 • Self
Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage poster
Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage
2014 • Zoreh
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Rushlights
2013 • Belle
The Caller poster
The Caller
2011 • Rose Lazar
Armored poster
Armored
2009 • Child Welfare Agent
Drag Me to Hell poster
Drag Me to Hell
2009 • Mrs. Ganush
Jane Doe: Ties That Bind poster
Jane Doe: Ties That Bind
2007 • Mrs. Wolcott
No Image
Candor City Hospital
2005
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Freeway
1996 • Judge