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

• 2014Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage — Zoreh
• 2013Rushlights — Belle
• 2011The Caller — Rose Lazar
• Traffic Light — Magda
• 2009Armored — Child Welfare Agent
• 2009Drag Me to Hell — Mrs. Ganush
• Eli Stone — Judge Gilberg
• Raising the Bar
• 2007Jane Doe: Ties That Bind — Mrs. Wolcott
• In Justice — Bonnie Levin
• Bones — Professor Marlene Twardosh
• 2005Candor City Hospital
• Grey's Anatomy — Ghost Lady
• Weeds — Irma
• Boston Legal — Judge Katherine Taylor
• Clubhouse
• Desperate Housewives — Judge Sullivan
• 10-8: Officers on Duty — Mrs. Cevallos
• Nip/Tuck — Lena Workman
• One Tree Hill — Zelda
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Sister Elizabeth
• Gilmore Girls — Professor Anderson
• Malcolm in the Middle — Big Kathy
• Stark Raving Mad — Phyllis Bleck
• Charmed — Madame Tereza
• Felicity — Professor Linda Cohen
• Ally McBeal — Judge Saturn
• Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction — Geraldine Collins (segment "The Landlady")
• The Practice — Pearson's Assistant
• 1996Freeway — Judge
• Star Trek: Voyager — Q-Judge
• ER — Anne Adelstein
• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman — Natalia
• Saved by the Bell: The New Class — Dr. McGrath
• Beverly Hills, 90210 — Mrs. Van Dyke
• 1990Opportunity Knocks — Eddie's Secretary

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2024Pardon My Curse: The Making of Drag Me to Hell — Self