Dana Reeve (née Morosini) (March 17, 1961 – March 6, 2006) was an American actress, singer, and activist for disability causes. She was the widow of actor Christopher Reeve.
Reeve was born Dana Charles Morosini in Teaneck, New Jersey to Charles Morosini, a cardiologist, and Helen Simpson Morosini, who died in February 2005.
She grew up in the town of Greenburgh, New York, where she graduated from Edgemont High School in 1979.
She graduated cum la...
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Dana Reeve (née Morosini) (March 17, 1961 – March 6, 2006) was an American actress, singer, and activist for disability causes. She was the widow of actor Christopher Reeve.
Reeve was born Dana Charles Morosini in Teaneck, New Jersey to Charles Morosini, a cardiologist, and Helen Simpson Morosini, who died in February 2005.
She grew up in the town of Greenburgh, New York, where she graduated from Edgemont High School in 1979.
She graduated cum laude in English Literature from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1984.
She spent the junior year of her studies at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She later pursued additional graduate studies in acting at the California Institute of the Arts.
She and her husband received honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters from Middlebury in 2004. She married actor Christopher Reeve in Williamstown, Massachusetts in April 1992, and they had a son, William Elliot "Will" Reeve, born on June 7, 1992, whom they raised in Pound Ridge, New York.
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