Reva Shayne
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| Reva Shayne | |||||||||||||||||||
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 Kim Zimmer as Reva Shayne |
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| Guiding Light | |||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Kim Zimmer | ||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | November 28, 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Created by | Pam Long | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Aliases | Reva Lewis Reva Spaulding Catherine Winslow Reva Cooper |
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| Gender | Female | ||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Executive at Lewis Oil & Construction | ||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | The Lewis Cabin, Springfield, Oklahoma | ||||||||||||||||||
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Reva Shayne (formerly; Lewis alias Princess Catherine Winslow) is a fictional and arguably the most popular character on the long-running CBS daytime soap opera Guiding Light.
The character is the daughter of Hawk Shayne and his late wife, Sarah O'Neal Shayne. The character was originated by actress Kim Zimmer in November 1983 and she would go on to portray Reva for the next seven years. Reva's first stint on the show culminated in the character driving off the Seven Mile 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 returned to Guiding Light in April 1995 and has been with the show ever since. Zimmer has won four Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress and has been nominated eleven times in the same category, most recently in 2006.
[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, a cancer survivor, and last, but not least, a loving mom and devoted wife, not necessarily in that order. Since 2005, Reva began to experience menopause. In her early days, as originally created by headwriter Pam 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.[citation needed]
She is one of Daytime's most married characters, having been married nine times to five different men. She ranks behind only The Bold and the Beautiful's Brooke Logan and All My Children's Erica Kane in number of marriages, with ten and eleven marriages respectively.
In May 2006, Reva was diagnosed with breast cancer and though initially hesitant to accept her illness, underwent treatment. Her husband, Josh Lewis, 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 resuscitated 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 in fact work so Reva is now free of cancer. She did have a scare in early 2007 when she found a lump under her arm, although it turned out to be benign.
