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Lorna Raver, who played Mrs Ganush in Sam Raimi\u2019s hit horror Drag Me to Hell, has died at the age of 81.<\/p>\n
According to the Hollywood Reporter, her death was included in the \u201cin memoriam\u201d section of the Screen Actors Guild\u2019s summer magazine. She died in May.<\/p>\n
Raver is best known for playing the woman who curses Alison Lohman\u2019s bank teller in Drag Me to Hell, Raimi\u2019s 2009 horror movie. The film premiered at Cannes and made more than $90m at the global box office.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just wanted to tell the story of a person who wants to be a good person but who makes a sinful choice out of greed, for their own benefit, and pays the price for it,\u201d Raimi said upon its premiere.<\/p>\n
It received positive reviews from critics, many of whom praised Raver\u2019s performance. In her review for the New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis called Raver \u201cgleefully disgusting\u201d while Variety\u2019s Peter Debruge referred to her as a \u201cmemorable\u201d villain.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a lot of fun,\u201d Raver said in an interview at the time. \u201cI mean it was gruelling sometimes but it was a lot of fun and Sam is terrific to work with \u2026 I was a little apprehensive going into it but I had a wonderful time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raver\u2019s film roles also included the dark 1996 comedy Freeway alongside Reese Witherspoon, the Matt Dillon-led crime thriller Armored and supernatural horror The Caller.<\/p>\n
On TV, she was best known for soap The Young and the Restless, where she appeared on 26 episodes. She also had roles in NYPD Blue, Bones, One Tree Hill, Weeds, Nip\/Tuck, Star Trek: Voyager and Grey\u2019s Anatomy.<\/p>\n
She also appeared in many off-Broadway productions and was a prolific audiobook narrator.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t say exactly why I wanted to become an actor \u2013 the yen was just always there,\u201d Raver said in a 2011 interview. \u201cIt was only after I became an actor that I learned what I love about it: I love the chance to live multiple lives and I\u2019m stimulated by the work of developing the discipline, skill and openness one needs in order to inhabit those other lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
She retired from acting in 2014.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always had this idea that women of a certain age just shouldn\u2019t even bother to try and make it in Hollywood, and I have been pleasantly surprised and blessed by all the work that has come my way,\u201d she said in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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