Post by Rose on Mar 7, 2006 14:29:28 GMT -5
Wife of Christopher Reeves,
died Mon evening Mar. 6, 2006
Dana Reeve, an actress whose days of sunny fame with her star husband Christopher turned into an odyssey of tragedy and redemption, has died of lung cancer at the age of 44.
Reeve gave up her entertainment career to care for her husband during his 10 years of almost complete paralysis, when she and Christopher became fighting symbols for those who refused to give up, even against the most desperate odds. She used her celebrity to campaign for stem cell and other medical research to treat spinal cord injuries like the one that paralyzed her husband, best known for his starring turn in the movies as Superman.
She died Monday night at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Center in New York City, the Christopher Reeve Foundation announced.
was born in New York as Dana Morosini.
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I'm piecing together info on her data - I believe it was Mar. 16, 1961, New York City. (please let me know if you find otherwise)
Time of death was 11: 40 pm
died Mon evening Mar. 6, 2006
Dana Reeve, an actress whose days of sunny fame with her star husband Christopher turned into an odyssey of tragedy and redemption, has died of lung cancer at the age of 44.
Reeve gave up her entertainment career to care for her husband during his 10 years of almost complete paralysis, when she and Christopher became fighting symbols for those who refused to give up, even against the most desperate odds. She used her celebrity to campaign for stem cell and other medical research to treat spinal cord injuries like the one that paralyzed her husband, best known for his starring turn in the movies as Superman.
She died Monday night at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Center in New York City, the Christopher Reeve Foundation announced.
was born in New York as Dana Morosini.
...
I'm piecing together info on her data - I believe it was Mar. 16, 1961, New York City. (please let me know if you find otherwise)
Time of death was 11: 40 pm