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.
Known For

Grey's Anatomy

Bones

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Desperate Housewives

One Tree Hill

Charmed

Gilmore Girls

ER
All Movies (10)
- Pardon My Curse: The Making of Drag Me to Hell2024 · as Self
- Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage2014 · as Zoreh
- Rushlights2013 · as Belle
- The Caller2011 · as Rose Lazar
- Armored2009 · as Child Welfare Agent
- Drag Me to Hell2009 · as Mrs. Ganush
- Jane Doe: Ties That Bind2007 · as Mrs. Wolcott
- Candor City Hospital2005
- Freeway1996 · as Judge
- Opportunity Knocks1990 · as Eddie's Secretary
All TV Shows (27)
- Traffic Light2011 · as Magda
- Raising the Bar2008
- Eli Stone2008 · as Judge Gilberg
- In Justice2006 · as Bonnie Levin
- Bones2005 · as Professor Marlene Twardosh
- Weeds2005 · as Irma
- Grey's Anatomy2005 · as Ghost Lady
- Desperate Housewives2004 · as Judge Sullivan
- Boston Legal2004 · as Judge Katherine Taylor
- Clubhouse2004
- 10-8: Officers on Duty2003 · as Mrs. Cevallos
- One Tree Hill2003 · as Zelda
- Nip/Tuck2003 · as Lena Workman
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation2000 · as Sister Elizabeth
- Gilmore Girls2000 · as Professor Anderson
- Malcolm in the Middle2000 · as Big Kathy
- Stark Raving Mad1999 · as Phyllis Bleck
- Charmed1998 · as Madame Tereza
- Felicity1998 · as Professor Linda Cohen
- Ally McBeal1997 · as Judge Saturn
- Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction1997 · as Geraldine Collins (segment "The Landlady")
- The Practice1997 · as Pearson's Assistant
- Star Trek: Voyager1995 · as Q-Judge
- ER1994 · as Anne Adelstein
- Saved by the Bell: The New Class1993 · as Dr. McGrath
- Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman1993 · as Natalia
- Beverly Hills, 902101990 · as Mrs. Van Dyke