Título: Christopher Reeve
Seção: Early life and education
Background: Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 - October 10, 2004) was an American actor. He achieved stardom for his acting achievements. In particular, he is best known for his motion picture portrayal of the classic DC comic book superhero Superman, beginning with the acclaimed Superman (1978), for which he won a BAFTA Award. Reeve appeared in other critically acclaimed films such as The Bostonians (1984), Street Smart (1987) and The Remains of the Day (1993).

Conteúdo: Christopher Reeve was born on September 25, 1952, in New York City, the son of Barbara Pitney (Lamb) (1929-2000), a journalist, and Franklin D'Olier Reeve (1928-2013), a teacher, novelist, poet, and scholar. Reeve was of almost entirely English ancestry, with many family lines that had been in America since the early 1600s. His paternal grandfather, Colonel Richard Henry Reeve, had been the CEO of Prudential Financial (when it was called Prudential Life Insurance Company) for over 25 years.  Reeve's father was a Princeton University graduate studying for a master's degree in Russian at Columbia University prior to the birth of his son, Christopher. Despite being born wealthy, Franklin Reeve spent summers working at the docks with longshoremen. Reeve's mother had been a student at Vassar College but transferred to Barnard College to be closer to Franklin, whom she had met through a family connection. They had another son, Benjamin, born on October 6, 1953.  Franklin and Barbara divorced in 1956, and she moved with her two sons to Princeton, New Jersey, where they attended Nassau Street School. Later that year, Franklin Reeve married Helen Schmidinger, a Columbia University graduate student. Barbara Pitney Lamb married Tristam B. Johnson, a stockbroker, in 1959. Johnson enrolled Christopher and his brother, Benjamin, in Princeton Country Day School, which later merged with Miss Fine's School for Girls to become the co-educational Princeton Day School. Reeve excelled academicall

user: Where was Reeve born?

assistant: New York City,

user: Who were his parents?

assistant: the son of Barbara Pitney (Lamb) (1929-2000), a journalist, and Franklin D'Olier Reeve (1928-2013), a teacher, novelist, poet, and scholar.

user: What was his childhood like?

assistant: Reeve excelled academically, athletically, and onstage;

user: Where did he go to school?

assistant: Nassau Street School.

user: Was he a good student?

assistant: Reeve excelled academically,

user: When did he get interested in acting?

assistant: Reeve found his passion in 1962 at age nine when he was cast in an amateur version of the operetta The Yeomen of the Guard;

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assistant: The next summer, Reeve was hired at the Harvard Summer Repertory Theater Company in Cambridge for $44 per week.

user: What was his role at the Theater Company?

assistant: He played a Russian sailor in The Hostage and Belyayev in A Month in the Country.

user: Did anything else significant happen during this time?

assistant: The 23-year-old lead actress in the play, a Carnegie Mellon graduate, turned out to be Reeve's first romance.