Dana Reeve was born on March 17, 1961 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA as Dana Charles Morosini. She was an actress, known for Everyone's Hero (2006), The Brooke Ellison Story (2004) and Above Suspicion (1995). She was married to Christopher Reeve. She died on March 6, 2006 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
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
Movies
Everyone's Hero
TV Shows
Feds
Star Sign
Pisces
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You have to celebrate the gifts because life is so hard and I think once you realize life's gonna be hard, the good stuff really comes forward.
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We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges.
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Asked how she kept her spirits up, Reeve said she "had a great model." "I was married to a man who never gave up."
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Parents were Helen Simpson and Charles Morosini, a cardiologist.
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Her father was of half Italian and half Polish ancestry. Her mother was of Irish ancestry.
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Dana Reeve passed away on March 6, 2006, less than only two weeks from what would have been her 45th birthday on March 17.
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(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.
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(August 9, 2005) Reported that she recently was diagnosed with lung cancer despite the fact that she never smoked.
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(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.
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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.
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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.
Announced that she had lung cancer two days after Peter Jennings' death, also from lung cancer.
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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.
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She won a Mother of the Year award from the American Cancer Society in 2005.
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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.
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