
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
October 9, 1943
Died
May 12, 2025 (81 years old)
Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- Lorna Raver Johnson
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
Acting

Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage
2014

Rushlights
2013

The Caller
2011

Armored
2009

Drag Me to Hell
2009

Raising the Bar
2008

Eli Stone
2008

Jane Doe: Ties That Bind
2007

Bones
2005

Weeds
2005

Grey's Anatomy
2005

Desperate Housewives
2004

Boston Legal
2004

One Tree Hill
2003

Nip/Tuck
2003

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000

Gilmore Girls
2000

Malcolm in the Middle
2000

Charmed
1998

Felicity
1998

Ally McBeal
1997

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
1997

The Practice
1997

Freeway
1996







