Lorna Raver

Lorna Raver
Born	York, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Other names	Lorna Raver Johnson
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1989–2014
Spouse	Yuri Rasovsky ​ ​ (m. 1987; died 2012)​

Lorna Raver is an American retired actress who has appeared in numerous plays, films, and television series. She is sometimes credited as Lorna Raver Johnson.

Life and career

Raver was born in York, Pennsylvania, and was raised in a Pennsylvania Dutch environment. She 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 the Chicago area before moving to Los Angeles, where she had many guest roles on TV and continued to work in live theater. Some of her performances included 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 on CBS's The Young and the Restless. She won critical acclaim as Mrs. Ganush in Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell (2009). In addition to numerous other stage and television appearances, she is a notable audiobook narrator for Tantor, Books on Tape, and Blackstone Audio. Raver retired from acting in 2014.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1996	Freeway	Judge	Debut in film
2003	First Watch	Vice President
2005	Candor City Hospital		Short film
2009	Drag Me to Hell	Mrs. Sylvia Ganush	Main role
	Armored	Child Welfare Agent
2011	The Caller	Rose
	Breaking Waves	Mrs. Conwell
2012	Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage	Zoreh
	Rushlights	Belle

External links

• Lorna Raver at IMDb