year at Cornell, he was accepted into the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City. Reeve gained fame for his role as Superman in the 1978 film and its sequels. However, in 1995, Reeve was paralyzed from the neck down after a horse-riding accident. Despite his paralysis, Reeve became an advocate for spinal cord injury research and founded the Christopher Reeve Foundation. He passed away on October 10, 2004.
The information that does not match the content of the passage is that Christopher Reeve's parents divorced when he was 4 years old and his mother moved him and his brother to Princeton, New Jersey.