Biography of Christopher Reeve(超人克里斯托弗·里夫传记英文版).doc

Biography Christopher ReeveSeptember 25, 1952 - October 10, 2004 Christopher Reeve was born September 25, 1952, in New York City. When he was four, his parents (journalist Barbara Johnson and writer/professor Franklin Reeve) divorced. His mother moved with sons Christopher and Benjamin to Princeton, New Jersey, and married an investment banker a few years later. After the divorce, the boys also spent substantial visitation time with their father, who writing under the name F. D. Reeve, is a noted novelist, poet, and scholar of Russian literature. While with him, Chris and Ben were exposed to a stimulating intellectual environment that included Sunday dinners with F. D. Reeves friends: Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Meanwhile, Reeves stepfather, Tristam Johnson, generously paid tuition for the boys to attend the exclusive and academically challenging Princeton Day School. Chris was extraordinary, his mother recalled to an Asbury Park Press reporter. He was endowed with a great many extraordinary talents. He had a wonderful mind, wide-ranging interests, a willingness to take risks. He was an athlete and scholar with a passion for acting, which began very, very early. Reeve traced his love of acting back to the early years of his childhood when he and his younger brother would climb inside cardboard grocery cartons and pretend they were pirate ships. To us they became pirate ships simply because we said they were Reeve said. The ability to retain at least some of this childhood innocence is essential to fine acting. By age eight, he had appeared in school plays, become interested in music, and was taking piano lessons. At age nine, he was picked to be in a Gilbert Sullivan operetta Yeoman of the Guard for Princetons professional theater, the McCarter Theatre. While I was growing up, Reeve recalls, I never once asked myself, Who am I? or What am I doing? Right from the beginning, the theater was like home to me. It seemed to be what I