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.

Most Known For

Grey's Anatomy

as Ghost Lady

Bones

as Professor Marlene Twardosh

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

as Sister Elizabeth

Star Trek: Voyager

as Q-Judge

Desperate Housewives

as Judge Sullivan

Charmed

as Madame Tereza

Gilmore Girls

as Professor Anderson

Beverly Hills, 90210

as Mrs. Van Dyke

ER

as Anne Adelstein

One Tree Hill

as Zelda

Malcolm in the Middle

as Big Kathy

Weeds

as Irma

The Practice

as Pearson's Assistant

Boston Legal

as Judge Katherine Taylor

Nip/Tuck

as Lena Workman

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

as Natalia

Ally McBeal

as Judge Saturn

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

as Geraldine Collins (segment "The Landlady")

Felicity

as Professor Linda Cohen

Eli Stone

as Judge Gilberg