Dana Reeve Biography

Fast Facts

• Graduated cum laude from Middlebury College
• Sang the title song on the soundtrack of In the Gloaming, the award-winning HBO drama directed by husband Christopher Reeve
• Published Care Packages: Letters to Christopher Reeve from Strangers and Other Friends in 1999
• Became chairperson of the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation after his death
• Gave up a role in a Broadway-bound play to be with Reeve prior to his death
• Named Mother of the Year by the American Cancer Society in 2005
• In 2006, not long before her death from lung cancer---she was not a smoker---hosted a PBS documentary, The New Medicine, about such nontraditional medical treatments as acupuncture and meditation
• The same year, the computer-animated film, Everyone's Hero, was released
• Her husband had worked on it as a director, and she also participated in the movie
• As she battled cancer, she said her will to fight was spurred by the fact that she'd been "married to a man who never gave up
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