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Lorna Raver

Lorna Raver
Born
Other namesLorna Raver Johnson
OccupationActor
Years active1989–2014
Spouse
(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.[1] 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.[2]

On September 19, 2006, she began appearing as Rebecca Kaplan on CBS's The Young and the Restless. She won critical acclaim[citation needed] 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[citation needed] 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

References

  1. ^ "Notizie".
  2. ^ "Lorna Raver". Penguin Random House AUDIO PUBLISHING. Archived from the original on March 6, 2021. Retrieved March 8, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)