Superman's son is making a name for himself! Christopher Reeve's youngest child, Will Reeve, has been building up quite the impressive resume these last few years. After interning at Good Morning America and graduating from Middlebury College, Will earned at spot on Espn's SportsCenter. Those are just a few things about the son that bears a striking resemblance to his superhero dad. Read on for more interesting tidbits about the superstar kid that landed his dream job. 1. He was just 13 when his mother died, leaving him orphaned.Will hadn't even turned 3 when his father was paralyzed in 1995 and...
- 6/18/2016
- by Ale Russian
- PEOPLE.com
Vanessa Marano stars in ABC Family.s new series, Switched At Birth, about two teen age girls who learn that they were accidentally switched in the hospital and sent home with the wrong parents. Vanessa started acting in the theater when she was seven years old, performing in numerous plays at A.C.T. in Agoura Hills, California. She began her professional career with several national commercials. Vanessa is most recognized for her roles as April, the daughter of Luke in the highly popular show, Gilmore Girls and for the role of Francesca, the daughter of the Emmy® Award-winning Lisa Kudrow, in the HBO Original series .The Comeback.. Recently, she starred in Scoundrels playing the scheming, school-skipping daughter of Virginia Madsen. She has had recurring roles in shows including Dexter , Without a Trace, Trust Me and The Young and The Restless. Her guest-starring credits include Parenthood, Medium, .Love Bites,. Ghost Whisperer,...
- 6/6/2011
- MediaBlvd Magazine
We Love Soaps TV recently had the chance to speak with Vanessa Marano, who will be starring in the upcoming ABC Family drama Switched At Birth.
Vanessa started acting in the theater when she was seven years old, performing in numerous plays at A.C.T. in Agoura Hills, California. She began her professional career with several national commercials.
She is most recognized for her roles as April, the daughter of Luke in the highly popular show, Gilmore Girls, as Eden on The Young And The Restless, and for the role of Francesca, the daughter of the Emmy® Award-winning Lisa Kudrow, in the HBO Original series The Comeback. Recently, she starred in Scoundrels playing the scheming, school-skipping daughter of Virginia Madsen. She has had recurring roles in shows including Dexter, Without A Trace and Trust Me. Her guest-starring credits include Parenthood, Medium, Love Bites, Ghost Whisperer, Past Lives, Six Feet Under,...
Vanessa started acting in the theater when she was seven years old, performing in numerous plays at A.C.T. in Agoura Hills, California. She began her professional career with several national commercials.
She is most recognized for her roles as April, the daughter of Luke in the highly popular show, Gilmore Girls, as Eden on The Young And The Restless, and for the role of Francesca, the daughter of the Emmy® Award-winning Lisa Kudrow, in the HBO Original series The Comeback. Recently, she starred in Scoundrels playing the scheming, school-skipping daughter of Virginia Madsen. She has had recurring roles in shows including Dexter, Without A Trace and Trust Me. Her guest-starring credits include Parenthood, Medium, Love Bites, Ghost Whisperer, Past Lives, Six Feet Under,...
- 6/3/2011
- by Kevin Mulcahy Jr.
- We Love Soaps
We Love Soaps TV recently had the chance to speak with Vanessa Marano, who will be starring in the upcoming ABC Family drama Switched At Birth.
Vanessa started acting in the theater when she was seven years old, performing in numerous plays at A.C.T. in Agoura Hills, California. She began her professional career with several national commercials.
She is most recognized for her roles as April, the daughter of Luke in the highly popular show, Gilmore Girls, as Eden on The Young And The Restless, and for the role of Francesca, the daughter of the Emmy® Award-winning Lisa Kudrow, in the HBO Original series The Comeback. Recently, she starred in Scoundrels playing the scheming, school-skipping daughter of Virginia Madsen. She has had recurring roles in shows including Dexter, Without A Trace and Trust Me. Her guest-starring credits include Parenthood, Medium, Love Bites, Ghost Whisperer, Past Lives, Six Feet Under,...
Vanessa started acting in the theater when she was seven years old, performing in numerous plays at A.C.T. in Agoura Hills, California. She began her professional career with several national commercials.
She is most recognized for her roles as April, the daughter of Luke in the highly popular show, Gilmore Girls, as Eden on The Young And The Restless, and for the role of Francesca, the daughter of the Emmy® Award-winning Lisa Kudrow, in the HBO Original series The Comeback. Recently, she starred in Scoundrels playing the scheming, school-skipping daughter of Virginia Madsen. She has had recurring roles in shows including Dexter, Without A Trace and Trust Me. Her guest-starring credits include Parenthood, Medium, Love Bites, Ghost Whisperer, Past Lives, Six Feet Under,...
- 6/3/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Shannen Doherty has signed for a holiday-themed Hallmark Channel original movie.
The former "Beverly Hills, 90210" star has been cast in "Growing the Big One," which centers on a woman who inherits her debt-ridden family farm and enters a pumpkin-growing contest in hope of avoiding foreclosure. Along the way, she falls in love with her partner in the contest.
The movie has begun production in Vancouver and will premiere in October 2010.
"Growing" is produced by Gbo Films, with Howard Meltzer ("The Brooke Ellison Story"), Jane Goldenring ("Pizza My Heart") and Ted Bauman ("Pictures of Hollis Woods") executive producing. Mark Griffiths ("Our House") is directing from a script by Diane Mettler and Anna Sandor.
The former "Beverly Hills, 90210" star has been cast in "Growing the Big One," which centers on a woman who inherits her debt-ridden family farm and enters a pumpkin-growing contest in hope of avoiding foreclosure. Along the way, she falls in love with her partner in the contest.
The movie has begun production in Vancouver and will premiere in October 2010.
"Growing" is produced by Gbo Films, with Howard Meltzer ("The Brooke Ellison Story"), Jane Goldenring ("Pizza My Heart") and Ted Bauman ("Pictures of Hollis Woods") executive producing. Mark Griffiths ("Our House") is directing from a script by Diane Mettler and Anna Sandor.
- 10/13/2009
- by By James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The late Christopher Reeve was among five nominees named Monday for the DGA's annual award recognizing made-for-TV films. Reeve, who died in October, was recognized for A&E's The Brooke Ellison Story. The other nominees were Joe Sargent for HBO's Something the Lord Made, Robert Altman for the Sundance Channel's Tanner on Tanner, Parts 1-4, Stephen Hopkins for HBO's The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and Lloyd Kramer for ABC's Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven. The winner will be announced Jan. 29 at the 57th annual DGA Awards Dinner at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
- 1/11/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's a testament to the indomitable spirit of Christopher Reeve, who died Sunday at age 52 of complications from an infection that led to cardiac arrest, that he will be remembered more for his fortitude in the face of adversity and his tireless efforts on behalf of spinal cord injury research as he will be for portraying Superman on the big screen. Despite continuing to fight the physical and emotional obstacles that had followed him since a May 27, 1995, horseback riding accident left him a quadriplegic, Reeve worked at his craft until nearly the end of his life. His second directorial effort, the A&E Network biopic The Brooke Ellison Story -- based on the true story of a quadriplegic young girl who goes on to become a Harvard University honor student -- is scheduled to premiere Oct. 25. One of the greatest thrills of my career in journalism was conducting a telephone interview with Reeve in 1997, on the eve of his maiden directing gig on the HBO drama In the Gloaming. He spoke about that movie but also about how his life was coming along. "Every day is an adventure," Reeve said. "But I can't say that I feel unlucky or cursed. Quite the contrary, actually. I have love all around me. And I have an awful lot of hope." That hope never left Reeve, whose advocacy for stem cell research helped it emerge as a major campaign issue in the current presidential race. His name was even mentioned in connection with that research by Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry during Friday's second presidential debate.
- 10/12/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Christopher Reeve, the star of Superman, whose later riding accident made him a worldwide spokesman for spinal cord research, died Sunday of heart failure in Mount Kisco, New York. He was 52. Reeve suffered cardiac arrest on Saturday at his Pound Ridge, NY, home, and then slipped into a coma, and died Sunday at a hospital surrounded by his family. The son of a journalist and a novelist, Reeve was born on September 25, 1952 in New York. He started on the stage: at the age of 10 he appeared in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeoman of the Guard at McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J. Reeve moved to television with a stint on the daytime soap opera Love of Life but was launched into stardom when he beat out 200 other aspirants as the eponymous character of Richard Donner's 1978 film Superman. The film was a box-office smash as was the follow-up, Superman II. Reeve would play the role of Superman, and his dual identity, Clark Kent, four times and even though the budgets, and the quality of the films eventually decreased, Reeve continued to imbue his super-hero persona with sly humor and the bumbling reporter alter-ego with quiet integrity. Reeve was not content to merely play the Krypton survivor, however, and almost immediately began to play against type. He took a role as an actor whose obsession leads him to travel back to the turn of the 19th century in the cult-classic Somewhere in Time, as the scheming playwright in a dangerous triangle in Deathtrap, and an American who presence sparks changes in a British household in The Remains of the Day. Reeve struggled to free himself of the association that made him famous over the years, with varying results. He only agreed to play the role in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace if he could help shape the script, earning him a writing credit for the anti-nuclear weapons film. A new chapter in Reeve's life began on May 27, 1995 at a Virginia horseshow when his chestnut Thoroughbred stopped short on a fence. Reeve, whose hands were caught in the bridle, was pitched forward onto the ground. He fractured the two top vertebrae of his neck and injured his spinal cord, rendering him a quadriplegic and reliant on a ventilator to breathe. Initially suicidal, the actor turned his energy toward recovery. Though the process was slow and painful, Reeve astounded doctors by regaining sensation over 70 percent of his body and even moving one of his fingers. He went further than thought possible and, with the assistance of electrodes, was even able to go for long sessions without his ventilator. With some interim successes, Reeve returned to his craft, acting in the television version of Rear Window, lending credibility to the story of a man whose infirm situation turns him into a voyeur. He also went behind the camera, directing 1997's In the Gloaming and The Brooke Ellison Story, about a family coping with a spinal chord injury. Reeve became a tireless lobbyist for spinal cord injury patients, calling for insurance reform for catastrophic injury and, most recently, lending his name to the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Act, which could create five centers across the US to support people with paralysis. The act is currently before Congress. In addition to his invincible role, it may be his inspirational courage and perspective that may be remembered the most about Christopher Reeve. Quoted in Reader's Digest Reeve said: "Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body." Reeve is survived by his parents, his brother, his wife, Dana Morosini, and his three children (Will, 12, from his marriage to Morosini and Matthew, 25, and Alexandra, 21, from a relationship with Gae Exton). --Prepared by IMDb staff...
- 10/11/2004
- IMDb News
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