- (October 10, 2004) Her husband of 12 years, Christopher Reeve, passed away from heart failure and sepsis at age 52. He spent the last nine years of his life in a wheelchair when he became disabled after a fall from a horse.
- She was a singer and actress who gave up some of her own career to be one of the nation's best known caregivers for her husband, Christopher Reeve.
- Gave birth to her only child at age 31, a son William Elliot Reeve (aka Will Reeve) on June 7, 1992. Child's father is her now late husband, Christopher Reeve.
- (March 6, 2006) Passed away after a long-term battle with lung cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City at age 44.
- (August 9, 2005) Announced that she was recently diagnosed with lung cancer despite the fact that she never smoked.
- She received the Mother of the Year award from the American Cancer Society (2005).
- Dana Reeve passed away on March 6, 2006, less than two weeks away from what would have been her 45th birthday on March 17.
- The sequel Superman Returns (2006) is dedicated to her memory.
- The Smallville (2001) episode "Hypnotic" was dedicated to Dana Reeve, who passed away three weeks before the episode was aired. The episode also ends with an encouragement to make donations in her memory to the Christopher Reeve Foundation.
- Friends with former hockey great Mark Messier, and sang Carole King's song "Now and Forever" at his jersey retirement at Madison Square Garden on January 12, 2006.
- Stepmother of her husband, Christopher Reeve's two children: Matthew Reeve and Alexandra Reeve Givens.
- Graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in English Literature from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont (1984).
- Parents were Helen Simpson and Charles Morosini, a cardiologist.
- Her father was of half-Italian and half-Polish ancestry. Her mother was of Irish ancestry.
- Attended and graduated from Edgemont High School in Greenville, Westchester County, New York (1979).
- Daughter-in-law of F.D. Reeve. Aunt of actor James Morosini, who is her sister's son.
- Born on exactly the same date as Casey Siemaszko.
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