About Dana Reeve
Dana Charles Reeve (née Morosini; March 17, 1961 – March 6, 2006) was an American actress and singer. She was the wife of actor Christopher Reeve and mother of television reporter and anchor Will Reeve. == Early life == Dana Morosini was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, to Charles Morosini (died 2018), a cardiologist, and Helen Simpson Morosini (died 2005). She was of Italian descent. Morosini grew up in the town of Greenburgh, New York, where she graduated from Edgemont High School in 1979. Morosini graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in English Literature from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1984. In 2004 she and husband Christopher Reeve received honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters from Middlebury. Morosini spent the junior year of her studies at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In 1984, she pursued an MFA in acting from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. == Career == Her many singing and acting credits included appearances on television, where she had guest roles on Dick Wolf's Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, soap operas All My Children as Eva Stroupe and Loving, among others.
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