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Christopher Reeve's son is a baby in the photo. At 25, he is a handsome copy of his late father

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May 02, 2018
04:37 P.M.

Christopher Reeve's son has grown to become an attractive man and now, at 25 years old, Will Reeve is a living copy of his famous father.

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Christopher is best known for the lead role in the 1978 film, Superman: The Movie, but he was also a director, producer, screenwriter and an avid equestrian.

According to She Knows, Will has been getting a lot of attention for being his father's walking legacy after Christopher passed away in 2004.

Will got his father's famous classic good looks, as girls are also drooling over his chiseled physique. Working as a reporter for ESPN, Will makes frequent appearance on Sports Center.

His Instagram account reflects his growing popularity, with more than 17 000 followers. Some of them wonder if Will would follow in his father's footsteps.

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Aside from Superman, for which he won a BAFTA Award, Christopher also starred in The Bostonians, Street Smart and The Remains of the Day.

Christopher received a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award for his performance in the 1998 film, Rear Window.

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On May 27, 1995, after being thrown from a horse during an equestrian competition in Culpeper, Virginia, the actor became a quadriplegic.

He became wheelchair-bound for the rest of his life and because of his condition, he also became an activist. He lobbied for human embryonic stem cell research on behalf of people with spinal cord injuries.

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The legendary Superman actor also founded the Christopher Reeve Foundation and co-founded the Reeve-Irvine Research Center.

He died on October 10, 2004. The night before his death, he had gone into a cardiac arrest, which was blamed on an antibiotic he took for an infection.

His death came just six days after speaking at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. He was 52 years old at the time.

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