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- Dana Charles Reeve (née Morosini; March 17, 1961 – March 6, 2006) was an American actress, singer, and activist for disability causes. She was the wife of actor Christopher Reeve.
Reeve was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, to Charles Morosini (died on April 24, 2018), a cardiologist, and Helen Simpson Morosini, who died in February 2005. She was of Italian descent.
She grew up in the town of Greenburgh, New York, where she graduated from Edgemont High School in 1979.
She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in English Literature from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1984. In 2004 she and husband, Christopher Reeve, received honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters from Middlebury.
She spent the junior year of her studies at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In 1984, she pursued additional graduate studies in acting at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.
She married actor Christopher Reeve in Williamstown, Massachusetts, on April 11, 1992.
Her many singing and acting credits included appearances on television, where she had guest roles on Dick Wolf's Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, soap operas All My Children as Eva Stroupe and Loving, among others. She performed at theatres on Broadway, off-Broadway, and at numerous regional theatres.
In August 2005, ten months after the death of her husband, Reeve announced that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer. She had never smoked, but in her early career had often sung in smoky bars and hotel lobbies.
Reeve died on March 6, 2006, at the age of 44, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
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