Dana Reeve

Dana Charles Reeve (née Morosini; March 17, 1961 – March 6, 2006) was an American actress, singer, and disability activist. She is best known as the wife of actor Christopher Reeve and the mother of television reporter and anchor Will Reeve. Born in Teaneck, New Jersey, Reeve was of Italian descent and grew up in Greenburgh, New York. She graduated from Edgemont High School in 1979 and later attended Middlebury College, where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in English Literature in 1984. Reeve pursued acting studies at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. She married Christopher Reeve in 1992.