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Dana Reeve, Widow of Christopher Reeve, Dies at 44
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Wednesday, 8 Mar 2006
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Actress Dana Reeve, who came to prominence as a fervent advocate for spinal-cord paralysis research in the wake of her husband Christopher Reeve's paralysis more than ten years ago, died late Monday of lung cancer; she was 44. Reeve, a singer and actress who worked on such TV series as Law & Order and Oz as well as onstage, met her husband at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts, and the two were married in 1992. She became most famous as her husband's constant caregiver in the wake of his horse-riding accident in 1995, which left him almost totally paralyzed, and as he worked towards recovery, she tirelessly helped him in his efforts to pioneer research into cures for spinal-cord paralysis, taking over as chair of the Christopher Reeve Foundation after his death in 2004. In August of last year, she announced that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer, even though she had never been a smoker. Reeve had most recently appeared at a fundraiser four months ago, where she cited her late husband as her role model. She is survived by her 13-year-old son, Will, two grown step-children, her father, and two sisters.
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