Lorna Raver
Lorna Raver (formerly Lorna Johnson ; born October 9, 1943 in York County , Pennsylvania ) is an American actress .
Life
Lorna Raver got her first acting experience at the traditional Hedgerow Theater in Rose Valley , Delaware County , Pennsylvania. She then starred in off-Broadway performances in New York City for several years , including the 1979 premiere of Robin Swicord's Last Days at the Dixie Girl Cafe at Theater Four and the 1980 premiere of Matt Williams' Between Daylight and Boonville . She then played in Chicago for several years and finally moved to Los Angeles , where she continues to play mainly theater. She also speaks in radio plays, including many productions of Yuri Rasovsky's The Hollywood Theater of the Ear , and since 2002 in a large number of audio books. She has been nominated for the Audie Award several times for her audio books and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards , for example in 2008 for her audio book version of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence .
In addition to her theater, radio and audio book work, she has had numerous guest roles in television series. Among other things, she starred in episodes of X-Factor: The Inconceivable , Emergency Room (1996), The Practice and Beverly Hills, 90210 (1997), NYPD Blue (1997 and 2004), The Pretender (1999), Star Trek: Voyager and Gilmore Girls (2001), Charmed (2002), Cold Case and Desperate Housewives (2004), Boston Legal (2004 and 2006), Malcolm mittendrin (2005), CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators and Nip / Tuck (2006) and Eli Stone (2008). From 2006 to 2007 she also had a permanent role in the soap opera Shadow of Passion .
Lorna Raver is rarely seen in the cinema. Her biggest role to date was in Sam Raimi's horror film Drag Me to Hell in 2009 . There she played old Mrs. Ganush, from whom the main character of the film (played by Alison Lohman ) was put with a curse.
Filmography (selection)
- 1990: The disaster Knight (Opportunity Knocks) - Director: Donald Petrie
- 1996: Freeway - Director: Matthew Bright
- 2005: Candor City Hospital (short film) - Director: David Paymer
- 2003: First Watch - Directed by Elle Travis-Peterson
- 2006: Walkout - Uprising in LA ( Walkout , TV movie) - Directed by Edward James Olmos
- 2006: Shadow of Passion ( The Young and the Restless , TV series, 24 episodes)
- 2007: Jane Doe: Ties That Bind (TV movie) - Directed by James A. Contner
- 2009: Drag Me to Hell - Director: Sam Raimi
- 2009: Armored - Director: Nimród Antal
- 2011: The Caller - Director: Matthew Parkhill
- 2013: Grey's Anatomy (TV series, season 10, episode 7)
Web links
- Lorna Raver in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lorna Johnson in the Internet Off-Broadway Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ New York Magazine . New York Media, LLC, October 6, 1980, p. 76 ( books.google.com ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raver, Lorna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johnson, Lorna; Raver Johnson, Lorna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | York County, Pennsylvania |