Lorna Raver, 'Drag Me To Hell’ actress, dies at 81

Lorna Raver, most famously known for portraying the elderly woman who plants a curse on Allison Lohman’s bank executive to set the horror scene in the Sam Raimi-directed ‘Drag Me To Hell,’ has died at 81 years old.

Raver also appeared on ‘The Young and the Restless” and on numerous David E. Kelly television series.

On television, the actress took over for Millie Perkins to play the concentration camp survivor Rebecca Kaplan (and mother of Brad Carlton), who comes out of hiding on CBS’ soap opera ‘The Young and the Restless’ from 2006-2007.

Lorna was born on October 9, 1943, in York, Pennsylvania, where she got an early acting experience at Hedgerow Theater just outside Philadelphia. She moved to New York and in 1979 she portrayed the owner of the restaurant in the off-Broadway debut of Robin Swicord’s ‘Last Days of the Dixie Girl Café.”

When “The Young and the Restless” came on the air in 1997, she played Cape Cod resident Helen Miller.

As for David E. Kelly shows, she appeared in the 1997 pilot of ‘The Practice’ and played judges in ‘Ally McBeal’ and ‘Boston Legal.’

She has also been seen in episodes of ‘ER,’ ‘Saved by the Bell: The New Class,’ ‘Beverly Hills 90210,’ ‘Felicity,’ ‘Judging Amy,’ ‘Star Trek: Voyager,’ ‘Gilmore Girls,’ ‘Charmed, ‘Bones,’ ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and many, many others.

Raver’s partner of 25 years, Yuri Rasovsky, a writer, producer and director in his own right, died in 2012 at 67 years old.

They are reunited once again! RIP Lorna.