Lorna Raver profile
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Lorna Raver

9th October 1943 Pennsylvania, USA Acting

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.

9 Movies 27 TV Shows 37 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

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Armored 4th December 2009 as Child Welfare Agent
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Bones 13th September 2005 as Professor Marlene Twardosh
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Weeds 7th August 2005 as Irma
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Charmed 7th October 1998 as Madame Tereza
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Felicity 29th September 1998 as Professor Linda Cohen
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ER 19th September 1994 as Anne Adelstein