Reva Shayne
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Reva Shayne Lewis is a fictional and arguably, the most popular character on the long-running CBS daytime soap opera, Guiding Light. The character was the daughter of Hawk Shayne and his late wife, Sarah O'Neill Shayne. The character was originated by actress Kim Zimmer in November 1983 and she would go on to play Reva for the next seven years. Reva's first stint on the show culminated in the character driving off a bridge in the Florida Keys, yelling "I'm coming, Bud!". Her husband and soap viewers assumed she had died.
After a five-year absence, Reva would return to Guiding Light in April 1995 and has been with the show ever since. Zimmer has won four Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Lead Actress and has been nominated ten times in the same category, most recently in 2006.
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[edit] Character overview
Reva underwent many transformations: she had been a vixen (having married a father and two sons of the same family), a manic-depressive, an Amish woman, presumed dead more than once (most recently, a clone was made from her DNA), the princess of a little-known island nation named San Cristobel, a time traveler, a Civil War belle, a French woman, a woman who saved illegal immigrants from certain death, a talk show host, a psychic, and last, but not least, a loving mom, not necessarily in that order. Since 2005, Reva began to experience menopause. In her early days, as originally created by headwriter Pamela Long, she was a spirited troublemaker; the episode where Reva "baptized" herself the "Slut of Springfield" in a public fountain is generally regarded to be one of the best in soap opera history.
In May 2006, Reva was diagnosed with breast cancer and though initially hesitant to accept her illness, underwent treatment. Her husband, Josh, was in the dark, however, along with the rest of Springfield, until Reva was on her deathbed at the end of October 2006, when Billy Lewis revealed the truth. Reva appeared to be dead at the end of the November 3, 2006 show, but the next episode had Josh hear a noise from Reva, she was ressusitated and brought back to life. Shortly after the Lewises were told she was going into remission, it was also revealed that the Bone Marrow transplant she underwent in Minnesota did infact work so Reva is now free of cancer.
[edit] Family, marriages and romantic entanglements
[edit] Family
- Hawk Shayne (father) and Sarah O'Neill Shayne (mother; deceased)
- Rusty Shayne (brother), Roxie Shayne (sister) and Cassie Rae Winslow (half-sister)
- Rose McLaren Shayne (sister-in-law; deceased) and Richard Winslow (brother-in-law/ex-husband; deceased)
- Tammy Winslow (niece), R.J. Winslow (nephew) and Will Winslow (nephew)
[edit] Family by marriage
- H.B. Lewis (father-in-law/ex-husband; deceased) and Martha Lewis (mother-in-law; deceased)
- William Lewis (grandfather-in-law; deceased)
- Trish Lewis (sister-in-law) and Billy Lewis (brother-in-law/ex-husband)
- Mindy Lewis (niece-in-law) and Bill Lewis (nephew-in-law)
- Emma Spencer Lewis (adoptive grand niece-in-law)
[edit] Marriages
Marital status: Single
- Harlan Billy "Billy" Lewis II (divorced)
- Harlan Billy "H.B." Lewis I (divorced; deceased)
- Alan Spaulding (annulled)
- Joshua "Josh" Lewis (divorced; first time)
- Richard Winslow (divorced) (as Catherine Winslow - her amnesiac identity)
- Frank Achilles "Buzz" Cooper Sr. (divorced)
- Joshua "Josh" Lewis (divorced; second time)
- Joshua "Josh" Lewis (divorced; third time)
- Harlan Billy "Billy" Lewis II (Broken Engagement)
Full Legal Name: Reva Shayne-Lewis-Lewis-Spaulding-Lewis-Cooper-Lewis-Lewis
[edit] Significant Relationships
- Kyle Sampson (former lovers, engaged; broken off)
- Alan Spaulding (former lovers)
- Noah Chase (engaged; broken off)
[edit] Children
- Dylan Shayne Lewis (son; with ex-husband/brother-in-law, Billy Lewis; gave up for adoption - adopted by the late Mark and Carol Cody)
- Marah Lewis (daughter; with husband, Josh Lewis);
- Joshua Shayne "Shayne" Lewis (son; with husband, Josh Lewis)
- Jonathan Randall (son; with ex-husband, the late Richard Winslow; gave up for adoption to protect Jonathan - adopted by the late Alfred Randall and the late Marissa Spencer Randall)
Reva suffered a miscarriage with H.B. Lewis. The gender of the child was never determined.
[edit] Children-in-law
- Bridget Reardon Lewis (daughter-in-law; married to Dylan)
- Elizabeth "Lizzie" Spaulding Randall (daughter-in-law; married to Jonathan)
[edit] Grandchildren
- Susan LeMay (granddaughter; daughter of Dylan and Harley Cooper Aitoro: affair; given up for adoption - adopted by the late Jim and Connie LeMay)
- Peter Lewis (step grandson; stepson of Dylan; son of Bridget and the late Hart Jessup; adopted by Vanessa Chamberlain Reardon - the latter shares custody with Bridget and Dylan)
[edit] Medical Crises
- Hit by a car driven by Vanessa (1985)
- Jumped into the river from a bridge/had pnuemonia (1986)
- hit over the head by crazed killer Cain (1986)
- Twisted her ankle during an adventure with Josh (1986)
- Poisoned by Sonni/had mild illness (1987)
- Drove car off bridge/was presumed dead (1990)
- Drowned/hit over the head/cut her hand (1995)
- Car Crash (1996)
- Plane Crash (1997)
- Died as clone Reva/injured on the island (1997)
- Found out she had had a heart condition
- Hit in the head with poker by Holly Norris (1998)
- Stabbed in the chest by Edmund (1999)
- Injured in her time travels (2000)
- Car Crash/explosion - in a coma and blind (2001)
- Earthquake/injured in the abyss (2002)
- Hit over the head by Carrie (2004)
- Fell down elevator shaft/injured but survived (2005)
- Breast cancer victim (2006)
[edit] Transformations since November 1983
- Vixen (having married a father and two sons of the same family)
- Manic-depressive
- Amish woman
- Presumed dead more than once
- Cloned (made from her DNA)
- Princess of a little-known island nation named San Cristobel
- Suffered from amnesia
- Time traveler
- Civil War belle
- French woman
- Saved illegal aliens from death
- Talk show host
- Psychic
- Gave her son up for adoption
- Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
- Made history by "baptizing" herself as the "Slut Of Springfield" in a public fountain.
