POUND RIDGE, N.Y., March 7 (UPI) -- Dana Reeve, the former actress and activist wife of the late Christopher Reeve, has died of lung cancer in New York. She was 44.
Reeve, a non-smoker, died Monday night, Kathy Lewis of the Christopher Reeve Foundation told the New York Times.
The former actress and singer who appeared on "Law and Order" and "All My Children" announced in August she was battling lung cancer.
Together with her husband, Reeve founded and ran the Christopher Reeve Foundation to raise money for research grants and draw attention to the need for stem-cell treatments and other means of finding a cure for paralysis.
Reeve took over the chairmanship of the foundation after her husband's 2004 death and helmed the creation of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center. She was also key to the foundation's granting of more than $8 million to projects aimed at improving the lives of paralysis victims.
She is survived by her son, Will, 13; two step-children, her father and two sisters.
