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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 is 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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Character overview

Reva has undergone many transformations: she has 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, has now begun to undergo treatment. Her husband, Josh, is still in the dark, however.

Family, marriages and romantic entanglements

Family

Family by marriage

Marriages

Marital status: Married (Josh Lewis)

Full Legal Name: Reva Shayne-Lewis-Lewis-Spaulding-Lewis-Cooper-Lewis-Lewis

Significant Relationships

Children

Reva suffered a miscarriage with H.B. Lewis. The gender of the child was never determined.

Children-in-law

Grandchildren

 

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