Full Name | Dana Reeve |
Net Worth | $10 Million |
Date Of Birth | March 17, 1961 |
Died | March 6, 2006, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States |
Place Of Birth | Teaneck, New Jersey, USA |
Height | 1.72 m |
Occupation | Actress, singer, activist |
Profession | Actor, Singer, Author, Presenter, Activist |
Education | Edgemont Junior – Senior High School, Middlebury College, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Christopher Reeve |
Children | William Reeve |
Parents | Charles Morosini, Helen Simpson Morosini |
Nicknames | Dana Reeve, Reeve, Dana |
IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0716106 |
Movies | Everyone's Hero |
TV Shows | Feds |
Star Sign | Pisces |
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1 | Parents were Helen Simpson and Charles Morosini, a cardiologist. |
2 | Her father was of half Italian and half Polish ancestry. Her mother was of Irish ancestry. |
3 | Dana Reeve passed away on March 6, 2006, less than only two weeks from what would have been her 45th birthday on March 17. |
4 | (March 6, 2006) Died after a long-term battle with lung cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City at age 44. |
5 | (August 9, 2005) Reported that she recently was diagnosed with lung cancer despite the fact that she never smoked. |
6 | (October 10, 2004) Her husband of 12 years, Christopher Reeve, died from heart failure and sepsis at age 52. He spent the last nine years of his life in a wheelchair when he became disabled after a fall from a horse. |
7 | Gave birth to her only child at age 31, a son William Elliot Reeve (aka Will Reeve) on June 7, 1992. Child's father is her now late husband, Christopher Reeve. |
8 | The Smallville (2001) episode "Hypnotic" was dedicated to Dana Reeve, who died three weeks before the episode was aired. The episode also ends with an encouragement to make donations in her memory to the Christopher Reeve Foundation. |
9 | The sequel Superman Returns (2006) is dedicated to her memory. |
10 | Announced that she had lung cancer two days after Peter Jennings' death, also from lung cancer. |
11 | Friends with former hockey great Mark Messier, and sang Carole King's "Now and Forever" at his jersey retirement at Madison Square Garden on January 12, 2006. |
12 | She won a Mother of the Year award from the American Cancer Society in 2005. |
13 | She was a singer and actress who gave up some of her own career to be one of the nation's best known caregivers for her husband, Christopher Reeve. |
14 | Stepmother of her husband, Christopher Reeve's two children: Matthew Reeve and Alexandra Reeve Givens. |
15 | Graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in English Literature from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont (1984). |
16 | Attended and graduated from Edgemont High School in Greenville, Westchester County, New York (1979). |
17 | Daughter-in-law of F.D. Reeve. |