• Name: Keanu Reeves
  • Date of Birth: September 02, 1964
  • Place of Birth: Beirut, Lebanon
Mini-bio: From lamebrained teenage time traveler to metaphysical sci-fi Superman, Keanu Reeves has portrayed just about every character type imaginable in his sometimes wildly fluctuating career. Frequently lam... read morebasted by critics and often polarizing audiences suspicious of his talent's true extent, Reeves has nevertheless managed to maintain his lucrative career by balancing his lesser efforts with intermittent direct hits at the box office.Born in Keanu Charles Reeves in Beirut, Lebanon, in September of 1964 and named for the Hawaiian word that means "cool breeze over the mountains," the future actor was a world traveler by the age of two, thanks to his father's career as a geologist. His mother, Patricia Taylor, worked as a showgirl and later a costume designer of film and stage, and after his parents divorced, Reeves followed his mother and sister to live in New York; the trio would later relocate to Toronto -- where Reeves' interest in ice hockey and acting took a substantial precedence over academics. His formidable presence in front of the goal eventually earned Reeves the nickname "The Wall," and it wasn't long before all interest in school waned and the talented goalie decided to pursue acting.Later working as a manager in a Toronto pasta shop, Reeves soon began turning up in small roles on various Canadian television programs, making his feature debut in the 1985 Canadian film One Step Away before American audiences got their first good look at him in the 1986 Rob Lowe drama Youngblood. Subsequently going back to television and garnering favorable notice for his role in 1986's Young Again, it was the release of Tim Hunter's The River's Edge later that year that would provide Reeves with his breakthrough role. A harrowing tale of teen apathy in small town America, The River's Edge provided Reeves with a perfect opportunity to display his dramatic range, and the film would eventually become a minor classic in teen angst cinema.Appearing in a series of sometimes quirky but ultimately forgettable efforts in the following few years, 1988 found Reeves drawing favorable nods for his role in director Stephen Frears' Dangerous Liaisons. It was the following year's Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, however, that would transform the actor into something of an '80s icon. Reeves' performance of a moronic, air guitar wielding wannabe rocker traveling through time in order to complete his history report and graduate from high school proved so endearingly silly that it spawned both a sequel (1991's Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey) and a Saturday morning cartoon. In an odd twist of fate, Reeves and co-star Alex Winter had initially auditioned for the opposite roles from those in which they were ultimately cast. Though he would later offer variations of the character type in such efforts as Parenthood (1989) and I Love You to Death (1990), it wasn't long before Reeves was looking to break away from the trend and take his career to the next level.After drawing favorable reviews for his turn as a rich kid turned street hustler opposite River Phoenix in Gus Van Sant's 1991 drama My Own Private Idaho, Reeves battled the undead in Francis Ford Coppola's lavish production of Dracula (1992). Showing his loyalty toward fellow Bill and Ted cohort Winter with a hilarious extended cameo in Freaked the following year, Reeves once again teamed with Van Sant for the critically eviscerated Even Cowgirls Get the Blues before surprising audiences with an unexpectedly complex performance as Siddhartha in Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha (1993).Just as audiences were beginning to ask themselves if they may have underestimated Reeves talent as an actor, the mid-'90s found his career taking an unexpected turn toward action films with the release of Jan de Bont's 1994 mega-hit Speed (Reeves would ultimately decline to appear in the film's disastrous sequel). Balancing out such big-budgeted adrenaline rushes as Johnny Mnemonic (1995) and Chain Reaction (1996) with romantic efforts as A Walk in the Clouds (1995) and Feeling Minnesota (1996), Reeves spooked audiences as a moral attorney suffering from a major case of soul corrosion in the 1997 horror thriller The Devil's Advocate. The late '90s also found Reeves suffering a devastating personal loss when his expected baby girl with longtime girlfriend Jennifer Syme was stillborn, marking the beginning of the end for the couple's relationship. Tragedy stacked upon tragedy when Syme died two short years later in a tragic freeway accident. His career in fluctuation due to the lukewarm response to the majority of his mid-'90s efforts, it was the following year that would find Reeves entering into one of the most successful stages of his career thus far.As Neo, the computer hacker who discovers that he may be humankind's last hope in the forthcoming war against an oppressive mainframe of computers, Reeves' popularity once again reached feverish heights thanks to The Wachowski Brothers' wildly imaginative and strikingly visual sci-fi breakthrough, The Matrix. Followed by such moderately successful films as The Replacements (for which he deferred his salary so that Gene Hackman could also appear) and The Watcher (both 2000), Reeves took an unexpectedly convincing turn as an abusive husband in Sam Raimi's The Gift before returning to familiar territory with Sweet November and Hardball (both 2001). With the cultural phenomenon of The Matrix only growing as a comprehensive DVD release offered obsessive fans a closer look into the mythology of the film, it wasn't long before The Wachowski Brothers announced that the film had originally been conceived as the beginning of a trilogy and that two sequels were in the works. Filmed back to back, and with both scheduled to hit screens in 2003, excitement over The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions began to reach feverish heights in the months before release, virtually ensuring that the films would become two of the year's biggest box-office draws; they delivered on this promise despite mixed critical receptions.Reeves ensured his liberation from typecasting with a drastic turn away from The Matrix as the curtain fell on 2003, by appearing as heartthrob Dr. Julian Mercer in Nancy Meyers's romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give. Although he played second fiddle to vets Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, Reeves scored a bullseye, especially with female viewers. In 2005, he joined the cast of the collegiate arthouse hit Thumbsucker as Perry Lyman and fought the denizens of hell in the occultic thriller Constantine. Reeves's 2006 roles included the animated Robert Arctor in Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly and Alex Burnham in Alejandro Aresti's romantic fantasy The Lake House (co-starring Sandra Bullock.Famously playing bass for the band Dogstar in his cinematic down time, Reeves' other personal interests include motorcycles, horseback riding, and surfing. When he's not filming, Reeves maintains an everpresent residence in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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" It`s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth.
If you can make a woman laugh, you`re seeing the most beautiful thing on God`s Earth."
~ Keanu Reeves ~
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KeanuKeanu Reeves was born in Lebanon. He is one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Hawaiian and half English, and a Canadian citizen. He attended four high schools, playing hockey
and soccer before out at the of 17. He was raised in Hawaii, Australia, New York, and Canada, where he did his first professional acting. His name comes from a Hawaiian word loosely translated as "cool breeze over the mountain"

At the age of 16, he was in a Coca-Cola commercial, and featured in the Canadian sitcom Hangin`In. He later did a Kellog`s Corn Flakes commercial, spent a summer studying acting at the Hedgerow Theatre in Pennsylvania. He briefly co-hosted a kids`show in Canada, with Chris Makepeace.

At the Age of 22, Reeves came to Hollywood and slept on his former stepfather`s couch untill he moved on to his own appartment.

In early roles, he played hockey with Rob Lowe & Patrick Swayze in Youngblood, and played a troubled teen in River`s Edge with Crispin Glove and Dennis Hopper.

He danced Jack-Be-Nimble in a TV Production of Babes in Toyland starring 11-year-old-Drew Barrymore.

In 1989, still playing a teenager at 25, Bill & Ted`s Excellent Adventure made Reeves a star.

In 1994, Speed with Sandra Bullock made him an A-list star.

As a young actor, Reeves`best Friend was River Phoenix. They made "My Own Private Idaho" together, and joked about filming Romeo and Juliet Keanuwith Reeves as Romeo and Phoenix as Juliet.

Reeves was filming Speed when Phoenix died. Reeves`life has had its share of tragedy. His Sister Kim is battling leukemia, and Reeves has reportedly spent in excess of 5$ million on her medical care.

He has long been estranged from his natural father, who served a prison term for selling heroin.

He dated a backstage Hollywood worker Jennifer Syme, who bore his stillborn daughter in 1999. They broke up but remained Friends, though she was killed in car accident in 2001.
During his long career, Reeves has occasionally disappeared from Hollywood for a year at a time, and he returned down a $12 million offer for Speed 2 to do Shakespeare on stage in a small Canadian Theatre.

He is famously generous with his money, lavishing large gifts on charities and for his movies backstage workers.

A Buddhist and a pacifist, he opposes war on principle, and has turned down several films because the part seemed too violent for him.

Reeves has spoken of using drugs, but is understandably reticent to discuss which drugs he has used. He often says drugs have given him some "amazing experiences, then pauses, and repeats "amazing" a second time.


(When told fans document his every move online)
Do they? I don`t know. I haven`t checked it out, you know. I don`t like go home
and like..."Google" me.




Keanu Reeves Information:
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Full Name:

Keanu Charles Reeves


Keanu`s Name

~ Keanu~
  • Keanu, is pronounced "keh-ah-noo."
  • Keanu" translates to "the coolness" or "the cool winds over the mountain" in Hawaiian"
  • In Hawaiin, "ke" means "the" and "anu" means "cool or coolness"; hence "the coolness" or (very) interpretively, "the cool winds over the mountain."
  • Named after his uncle Henry Keanu Reeves. "Keanu is a derivation of Reeves`great -great uncle Keaweaheule, whose name means " the soft breeze raising" in Hawaiin.
Keanu
Eye color: Brown


Height
:

6' 1 (1.86 m)

Nickname(s)
:

The Wall (due to his position in ice hockey)

Was nicknamed "the wall" by high school hockey team De La Salle College "Oaklands".

The One


Heritage:

Keanu is one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Hawaiin, half English, and a Canadian citizen.

Education
:

Keanu attended Jesse Ketchum Public School in Toronto from kindergarten through the eighth grade, and attended four high schools (including De La Salle College and the Toronto School for the Performing Arts) before dropping out completely at age 17.Keanu took on lots of different jobs, including sharpening skates at an ice rink shop, landscaping, and making pasta.


F
amily:

Stepgrandfather:
Made a fortune exporting the Encyclopedia Brittanica to Canada; paternal relative

Father: Samuel Nowlin Reeves, geologist; left when Keanu was two; of Hawaiian-Chinese descent; sentenced to 10 years for cocaine and heroin possession in 1994

Mother: Patricia, costume designer; English

Stepfather: Paul Aaron, theater director; divorced Reeves' mother after six months of marriage

Stepfather: Robert Miller, rock promoter; married to Reeves mother for five years

Stepfather: Jack Bond, hair salon owner; divorced Reeves' mother in 1994

Sister: Kim Reeves, horse breeder; born 1966

Half-sister: Karina Reeves, born 1976; mother, Patricia


Half-sister: Emma Reeves born 1980; father Samuel Nowlin Reeves.



Reeves has never been married. In December 1999, Reeves' girlfriend Jennifer Syme gave birth to a stillborn daughter who was named Ava Archer Syme Reeves. In April 2001, Syme was killed in a car accident. She was buried next to their daughter in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

Resides in
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Toronto, Canada

Religious affiliations
:

Buddhist

Political affiliation
:

Independant

Personal interests/hobbies
:

Horseback Riding, Surfing, Ballroom Dancing, Ice Hockey

Reeves rides motorcycles, and leads a largely reclusive life.

Char
.ities/Causes:

  • Angelwear
  • City of Hope
  • CoachArt
  • LIFEbeat
  • Make It Right
  • PETA
  • Stand Up To Cancer
  • Wildlife WayStation
  • Spinal Cord Opportunities for Rehabilitaion Endowment
Causes:
  • AIDS
  • Animals
  • Cancer
  • Children
  • Health
  • Poverty
  • Homlessness
  • Creative Arts
  • Disaster Relief
  • Human Rights
  • Mental Challenges
  • Physical Challenges
  • At Risk/ Disadvantaged Youths


On Acting:

"
For me, acting is very self-involved, especially between projects. Once you get a part, you`re liberated. You can find out what the character thinks."

Keanu was honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on
starJanuary 31, 2005
star


Hollywood Walk of Fame 6801 Hollywood Blvd



"When I was 15 years old and a kid in Canada, I was doing a play called Romen and Juliet..."I asked my mum if it was OK to be an actor. She said: "Whatever you want." So thanks mum.
Keanu on Hollywood walk of Fame
Hollywood was calling, So I got in my car, a 1969 British racing green Volvo-holes in the floor, bricks holding up the seats. I was a young man full of hopes and dreams."
~ Keanu Reeves ~

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