Reva Shayne

Infobox soap character
series = Guiding Light
first = November 28 1983



caption1 = Kim Zimmer as Reva Shayne O'Neill
alias = Reva Lewis
Reva Spaulding
Princess Catherine Winslow
Reva Cooper
portrayer = Kim Zimmer
creator = Pam Long
residence = The Lewis Cabin (cabin used to be in Tulsa, Oklahoma)
gender = Female
occupation = Executive at Lewis Oil & Construction
parents = Hawk Shayne
(father)
Sarah O'Neal Shayne
(mother, deceased)
siblings = Russell "Rusty" Shayne
(brother)
Roxanne "Roxie" Shayne
(sister)
Cassandra "Cassie" Layne Winslow
(maternal half-sister)
spouse = Harlan Billy "Billy" Lewis II
(divorced) [1977-1984]
Harlan Billy "H.B." Lewis I
(divorced, deceased) [1984-1986]
Alan Spaulding
(annulled) [1988]
Joshua "Josh" Lewis
(divorced; first time) [1989-1995]
Richard Winslow
(invalid, deceased) [1990]
Frank "Buzz" Cooper Sr.
(divorced) [1996]
Joshua "Josh" Lewis
(divorced; second time) [1999-2000]
Joshua "Josh" Lewis
(divorced; third time) [2002-2007]
Jeffrey O'Neill
(married) [2008+]
children = Dylan Lewis
(son, with Billy; given up for adoption)
Unnamed child
(son, with H.B., deceased)
Marah Lewis
(daughter, with Josh)
Joshua "Shayne" Lewis
(son, with Josh)
Jonathan Randall
(son, with Richard; given up for adoption)
Unnamed child
(sex unknown, with Jeffrey; currently expecting)
grandchildren = Susan "Daisy" Lemay
(granddaughter, via Dylan)
Sarah Randall
(granddaughter, via Jonathan)
grandparents =
aunts/uncles = June O'Neal
(maternal aunt, deceased)
cousins =
relatives = Tammy Layne Winslow
(niece, deceased)
Roger Joshua "R.J." Winslow
(nephew)
William "Will" Winslow
(adopted nephew)
romances = John MacGregor
(dated; deceased)
Floyd Parker
(dated)
David Preston
(dated; deceased)
Kyle Sampson
(lovers/engaged)
Fletcher Reade
(dated)
Alan Spaulding
(lovers)
Noah Chase
(dated/engaged)
color = #F0E68C

Reva Shayne O'Neill (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.

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. fact|date=October 2007

She is one of Daytime's most married characters, having been married ten times to six different men. She is ahead of "The Young and the Restless's" Nikki Reed Newman and she is tied with "The Bold and the Beautiful's" Brooke Logan (ten marriages), behind only "All My Children's" Erica Kane in number of marriages (eleven).

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.

Family and relationships

Parents

* Hawk Shayne (father)
* Sarah Shayne (mother, deceased)

ibling(s)

* Russel "Rusty" Shayne (brother)
* Roxanne "Roxie" Shayne (sister)
* Cassandra "Cassie" Layne (maternal half-sister)

Marital status

* Jeffrey O'Neill (married) [09/2008+]

Past marriage(s)

* Harlan Billy "Billy" Lewis II (divorced) [1977-1984]
* Harlan Billy "H.B." Lewis I (divorced, deceased) [1984-1986]
* Alan Spaulding (annulled) [1988]
* Joshua "Josh" Lewis (divorced; first time) [1989-1995]
* Richard Winslow (invalid) [1990]
* Frank "Buzz" Cooper Sr. (divorced) [1996]
* Joshua "Josh" Lewis (divorced; second time) [1999-2000]
* Joshua "Josh" Lewis (divorced; third time) [2002-2007]

Children

* Dylan Lewis (son, with Harlan Billy "Billy" Lewis II; placed for adoption)
* Unnamed child (son, with Harlan Billy "H.B." Lewis I, deceased)
* Marah Lewis (daughter, with Joshua "Josh" Lewis)
* Joshua Shayne Lewis (son, with Joshua "Josh" Lewis)
* Jonathan Randall (son, with Richard Winslow; placed for adoption)
* Unnamed child (sex unknown, with Jeffrey O'Neill; currently expecting)

Grandchildren

* Susan "Daisy" LeMay (granddaughter, via Dylan)
* Sarah Randall (granddaughter, via Jonathan)

Other relatives

* June O'Neal (maternal aunt, deceased)
* Tammy Layne Winslow (niece, deceased)
* Roger Joshua "R.J." Jessup (nephew)
* William "Will" Winslow (adopted nephew)
* Ava Peralta (step-daughter)
* Maximus "Max" Lewis (step-grandson, deceased)

Fling and relationships

* John MacGregor (dated; deceased)
* Floyd Parker (dated)
* Joshua "Josh" Lewis (affair/lover)
* David Preston (dated; deceased)
* Kyle Sampson (lovers)
* Fletcher Reade (dated)
* Alan Spaulding (lovers)
* Noah Chase (dated/engaged)
* Joshua "Josh" Lewis (affair/one night stand)
* Jeffrey O'Neill (dated/engaged)

ee also

*Josh and Reva Lewis
*Supercouple

References