BIOGRAPHY:
Christopher Reeve was born on September 25, 1952 in New York
from a mother journalist and a father professor and writer.
The Christopher young person grows in a cultural environment
stimulating and parallel to its studies of music and English
at the Cornell university, it learns the trade from actor in
particular in famous Juilliard School of New York where it binds
friendship with the actor Robin Williams. In 1978 it is retained,
among 200 candidates, to hold the role of Superman. The film
will be a great success and will be followed of three other
shutters extended in 1981, 1983 and 1987. Christopher will try
to leave to leave its role super hero while playing in several
other films and telefilms and many plays, but its career stops
on May 27, 1995 tragically, at the moment when its horse Eastern
Express refuses the obstacle, sending it to the carpet with
two broken cervical vertebrae and the divided spinal cord.
Christopher is left
accuracy but remains paralysed from there below the shoulders
and incompetent to breathe without assistance. Three years after
its accident it turns for television the remake of "Windows
On Court" of Alfred Hitchcock in whom it camped a paralysed
photographer. Thereafter it does not find other roles and becomes
a burning defender of genetic research. In 2002, it had opened
with his Dana wife, in the New Jersey, a center of assistance
and councils with paralysed. In 2004, it carries out its last
cinematographic work, "Yankee Irving" a cartoon film
before dying of a heart failure on October 10, 2004, leaving
three children Matthew (1979), Alexandra (1983) and Will (1992)
and remaining for always in our heads largest of Superman.