{"id":3335,"date":"2025-08-16T13:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T13:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2025-08-16T13:10:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T13:10:58","slug":"drag-me-to-hell-star-lorna-raver-passes-away-at-81-leaving-behind-a-chilling-hollywood-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=3335","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Drag Me to Hell\u2019 Star Lorna Raver Passes Away at 81, Leaving Behind a Chilling Hollywood Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lorna Raver, the actress best known for her chilling role as Mrs. Sylvia Ganush in Sam Raimi\u2019s 2009 horror hit\u00a0<em>Drag Me to Hell<\/em>, has died at age 81.<\/p>\n<p>Although Raver passed away on May 12, news of her death only emerged when she was included in SAG-AFTRA\u2019s Summer 2025 \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d list alongside Anne Burrell, George Wendt, and Brian Wilson. Her cause of death has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3336\" src=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot_20250816_150917_Facebook-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot_20250816_150917_Facebook-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot_20250816_150917_Facebook-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot_20250816_150917_Facebook-768x1366.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot_20250816_150917_Facebook-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot_20250816_150917_Facebook.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe will now fly in Heaven, not be dragged to Hell,\u201d her representative, Michael Greene, told\u00a0<em>The Post<\/em>. \u201cShe was an incredible lady and artist \u2014 a true chameleon and the complete opposite of that character in real life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Born Oct. 9, 1943, in York, Pennsylvania, Raver began her career at Hedgerow Theater before moving to New York, where she appeared in the off-Broadway plays\u00a0<em>Last Days of the Dixie Girl Caf\u00e9<\/em>\u00a0(1979) and\u00a0<em>Between Daylight and Boonville<\/em>\u00a0(1980). After stints in Chicago and Los Angeles, she made her film debut in 1990\u2019s\u00a0<em>Opportunity Knocks<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Her decades-long career spanned more than 50 TV credits, including\u00a0<em>The Young and the Restless<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Practice<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Ally McBeal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Boston Legal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>ER<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Gilmore Girls<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Desperate Housewives<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Nip\/Tuck<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em>. She retired from acting after her final film,\u00a0<em>Rushlights<\/em>\u00a0(2013).<\/p>\n<p>In a 2014 interview, Raver admitted she had little knowledge of horror films before joining\u00a0<em>Drag Me to Hell<\/em>. \u201cI was definitely interested in doing it because of Sam Raimi,\u201d she said, \u201cbut I was not fully aware of exactly what I was getting into until it happened.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorna Raver, the actress best known for her chilling role as Mrs. Sylvia Ganush in Sam Raimi\u2019s 2009 horror hit\u00a0Drag Me to Hell, has died at age&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions\/3337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}