# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-reeve
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:13:33.352Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-reeve"
name: "Christopher Reeve"
slug: "christopher-reeve"
description: "He became Superman, then spent the last decade of his life redefining what strength looked like — paralyzed from the neck down, lobbying Congress from a wheelchair, turning a riding accident into a crusade for spinal research and the disabled."
tagline: "American actor (1952–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/C_Reeve_in_Marriage_of_Figaro_Opening_night_1985.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1952-09-25"
deathDate: "2004-10-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           67.19
  momentum:             6.200371487985642
  historical:           34.080468
  currentAttention:     19.23192111871357
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Actors"
    slug: "actors"
  - name: "Actor"
    slug: "actor"
  - name: "Television"
    slug: "television"
  - name: "Movies"
    slug: "movies"
  - name: "Theatre"
    slug: "theatre"
  - name: "Voice Acting"
    slug: "voice-acting"
  - name: "Film Directing"
    slug: "film-directing"
  - name: "Screenwriting"
    slug: "screenwriting"
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001659/"
    handle:    "nm0001659"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.christopherreeve.org/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4"
    title: "クリストファー・リーヴ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Christopher Reeve"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Christopher Reeve"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%B2%2C_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Рив, Кристофер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%8B%E9%87%8C%E6%96%AF%E6%89%98%E5%BC%97%C2%B7%E9%87%8C%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "克里斯托弗·里夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Christopher Reeve"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Christopher Reeve"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Christopher Reeve"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174311"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Christopher%20Reeve"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Christopher Reeve"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%86%D9%81%DB%95%D8%B1_%DA%95%DB%8C%DA%A4"
    title: "کریستۆفەر ڕیڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Christopher Reeve"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Christopher Reeve"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Christopher Reeve"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Christopher Reeve"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Christopher Reeve"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CF%81%CE%AF%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%B5%CF%81_%CE%A1%CE%B9%CE%B2"
    title: "Κρίστοφερ Ριβ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Christopher Reeve"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Christopher Reeve"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Christopher Reeve"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Christopher Reeve"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1_%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88"
    title: "کریستوفر ریو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://sr.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%B2"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/236ef438-b369-49f7-a8e1-f200e10ab725"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in New York City in 1952 and raised in Princeton, Reeve caught the acting bug at nine, studied at Cornell and Juilliard, and made his Broadway debut in 1976. Two years later he put on the cape for Superman (1978) and its three sequels through 1987, but turned down big-budget offers afterward to chase complex roles in indies and theater — Somewhere in Time, Deathtrap, The Bostonians, Street Smart, The Remains of the Day, Fifth of July on Broadway, The Aspern Papers in the West End. Already an activist for environmental and human-rights causes since the 1980s, his life split in 1995 when a fall from a horse in Virginia left him paralyzed from the neck down. He spent the next nine years on a ventilator, directing In the Gloaming, acting in a Rear Window remake, guest-starring twice on Smallville, writing two memoirs, and leading the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation's fight for stem cell research and disability coverage. He died of cardiac arrest in October 2004, at 52.