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| Kim Zimmer as Reva Shayne O'Neill | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Kim Zimmer | ||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 1st Run: November 28, 1983 (Guiding Light) |
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| Last appearance | 1st Run: September 18, 2009 (Guiding Light) |
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| Created by | Pam Long | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Aliases | Reva Lewis Reva Spaulding Princess Catherine Winslow Reva Cooper |
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| Gender | Female | ||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Executive at Lewis Oil & Construction Bartender Telejournalist at WSPR Host of a TV talk show on WSPR-TV Employee at Lewis Oil Shareholder of Lewis Oil & Construction Nurse's aide Photographer |
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| Residence | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||
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Reva Shayne O'Neill (formerly Spaulding; alias Princess Catherine Winslow, Lewis) is a fictional 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 and the mother of Dylan Lewis, Marah Lewis, Joshua "Shayne" Lewis, Jonathan Randall and Colin O'Neill. 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 Bahia Honda 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 remained through the final episode in September 2009. Zimmer has won four Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress and has been nominated eleven times in the same category, most recently in 2007.
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 seven different men.
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.
Reva had another scare in 2008 after finding a mass. However, realizing how life is short, she and Jeffrey O'Neill were married in September 2008 after a somewhat disastrous ceremony with only 2 weeks of planning. After the wedding, her doctor has given her a clean bill of health from cancer and instead reports to Jeffrey that she is pregnant, despite being way too old to realistically have a baby. On October 29, 2008, Jeffrey and Reva learned that they were expecting a son. On April 2, 2009, Reva and Jeffrey welcomed their son Colin O'Neill, named after Reva's doctor and friend Colin McCabe. During her pregnancy, Reva's cancer returned, but she managed to survive.
Edmund Winslow, who had been a thorn in the side of the Lewis family for many years but had attempted to turn over a new leaf, came unwound once again, and decided to kidnap baby Colin, only to be stopped when Reva broke out of the hospital and stabbed him with a hypodermic needle. Edmund continued to threaten the family but was soon found dead in a local pond. Reva was arrested for the crime, but Jeffrey began to believe Edmund was still alive. Jeffrey left town to track down leads; a few weeks later, Reva learned that Jeffrey had been killed.
Reva was grief-stricken for months, only finding comfort in Colin and in speaking to photos of Jeffrey. In actuality, Jeffrey had survived Edmund's attempt on his life, but Edmund told him if he ever returned to Reva, then Colin and the various other children in the Lewis family would be killed. Jeffrey decided to stay "dead" and pursue Edmund as best he could.
Meanwhile, Reva managed to find new happiness in life through her family, and time with her children and grandchildren revived her bond with Josh. Josh decided he needed to move on from Springfield, and, knowing Reva was still mourning her husband, told her that in a year's time, he would return to Springfield's lighthouse, and if Reva wanted to be with him, she would meet him. A year later, Reva, along with young Colin, met Josh at the lighthouse, and in the last Guiding Light scene ever broadcast, they drove away to a new life. Reva was credited for reading the last line in Guiding Light history when she said "Always" to Josh.
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