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‘Drag Me to Hell' star Lorna Raver dead at 81
Lorna Raver, the actress best known for her role in director Sam Raimi's 2009 horror film 'Drag Me to Hell,' has passed away. She was 81.
Although Raver died on May 12, the news of her passing was not revealed until it was included alongside Anne Burrell, George Wendt and Brian Wilson in the 'In Memoriam' section of SAG-AFTRA's Summer 2025 magazine edition published Monday, Aug. 11.
No other details were immediately available, and Raver's cause of death has not been disclosed.
Lorna Raver attends the premiere of 'Drag Me To Hell' in Hollywood, California, on May 12, 2009.
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The Post has reached out to Raven's rep for comment.
Born in York, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 9, 1943, Raver began acting at the Hedgerow Theater outside Philadelphia, per The Hollywood Reporter.
She later moved to New York and went on to star in Robin Swicord's off-Broadway play 'Last Days of the Dixie Girl Café' in 1979.
Lorna Raver as Mrs. Slyvia Ganush in Sam Raimi's 2009 horror film 'Drag Me to Hell.'
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She teamed up with Raimi 30 years later to portray Mrs. Sylvia Ganush in the horror director's 'Drag Me to Hell' alongside Alison Lohman and Justin Long.
'While I knew of [Raimi's] work from other films, I was so ignorant of the whole horror genre that I had never even heard of the 'Evil Dead,'' Raver said in Jason Norman's 2014 book, 'Welcome to Our Nightmares: Behind the Scene With Today's Horror Actors.'
'I was definitely interested in doing it because of Sam Raimi, but I was not fully aware of exactly what I was getting into until it happened,' she added.
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