Reva Shayne is a fictional character from Guiding Light, played by four-time Daytime Emmy Award winner Kim Zimmer from November 28, 1983, to July 23, 1990, and April 28, 1995, until the show's final episode on September 18, 2009.

Kim Zimmer is often regarded as one of the most popular performers ever to appear on CBS' Guiding Light and on all of daytime television.

Zimmer's career in daytime soaps outside of her most notable role include Bonnie Harmon on ABC's One Life to Live in 1978, Nola Dancy Aldrich on NBC's The Doctors from 1979-1982 when she took over for her eventual Body Heat co-star Kathleen Turner[4] and Jodie DeWitt Walker on Santa Barbara from 1992-1993.

[7][8][9] The actress recalled being in conversations to join other soaps when One Life to Live executive producer Frank Valentini asked her to return.

[10] Zimmer also appeared in ABC's MacGyver and FOX's Models Inc.[11] and on NBC's Seinfeld in the 1995 episode "The Diplomat's Club".

"[19] Zimmer has also appeared in numerous stage productions, including Sunset Boulevard, Blood Brothers, Gypsy, The Rainmaker,[20] Love, Loss and What I Wore,[21] Odysseus D.O.A.

[24] Zimmer also participated in ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares in 2010[25] and appeared with former co-star Robert Newman, who played Josh Lewis in the production of Curtains in 2011.

[28] Zimmer also played Madame Morrible in the New Orleans Broadway show Wicked, June 2013.

[2] A memorable event that led to her presumed death was when she drove off the Bahia Honda Bridge in the Florida Keys, yelling, "I'm coming, Bud!"

Though she married seven men including Alan Spaulding and Buzz Cooper, her marriages within the Lewis family are most notable.

Reva is also the grandmother of Daisy Lemay through Dylan, Sarah Randall through Jonathan and Henry Lewis through Shayne.

[2] Zimmer's Reva Shayne and Robert Newman's Josh Lewis are often considered to be one of daytime television's most popular Supercouples.

"[39] Regarding her memorable fountain scene, which is often cited as one of the genre's most unforgettable performances, Zimmer recalled filming that day with daytime columnist Michael Fairman.

Her longtime co-star Newman recalled his time working with the actress over the years on Guiding Light.

She will fight and argue and scratch and claw in rehearsal, but when that red light goes on, she is 100% committed to whatever the story is at that moment.