Birth Name Keanu Charles Reeves
Nicknames The Wall
The One
Height 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Smaller than normal Bio (1)
Keanu Reeves, whose first name signifies "cool wind over the mountains" in Hawaiian, was conceived in Beirut, Lebanon in 1964, the child of English-conceived Patricia Taylor, a showgirl, and American-conceived Samuel Nowlin Reeves, a geologist. Keanu's dad was conceived in Hawaii, of British, Portuguese, Native Hawaiian, and Chinese family. After their marriage disintegrated, Keanu moved with his mom and more youthful sister, Kim Reeves, to New York City, then Toronto. Stepfather #1 was Paul Aaron, a phase and film chief - he and Patricia separated inside a year, after which she went ahead to wed (and separation) rock promoter Robert Miller and hair salon proprietor Jack Bond. Reeves never reconnected with his organic father. In secondary school, Reeves was tepid toward scholastics yet took an unmistakable fascination in ice hockey (as group goalie, he earned the moniker "The Wall") and dramatization. He inevitably dropped out of school to seek after an acting vocation.
After a couple stage gigs and a modest bunch of made-for-TV motion pictures, he scored a supporting part in the Rob Lowe hockey flick Youngblood (1986), which was recorded in Canada. Not long after the creation wrapped, Reeves gathered his sacks and set out toward Hollywood. Reeves appeared on faultfinders' radar with his execution oblivious juvenile dramatization, River's Edge (1986), and handled a supporting part in the Oscar-selected Dangerous Liaisons (1988) with chief Stephen Frears.
His first mainstream achievement was the part of absolutely rad buddy "Ted Logan" in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989). The wacky time-travel film got to be something of a social marvel, and crowds would always befuddle Reeves' genuine persona with that of his doofy on-screen partner. He then joined the throws of Ron Howard's comic drama, Parenthood (1989), and Lawrence Kasdan's I Love You to Death (1990).
Throughout the following couple of years, Reeves attempted to shake the Ted shame with a progression of highbrow tasks. He played a slumming rich kid inverse River Phoenix's narcoleptic male hawker in My Own Private Idaho (1991), an unfortunate legal counselor who staggers into the vampire's den in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), and Shakespearean gathering pooper Don John in Much Ado About Nothing (1993).
In 1994, the downplayed performing artist turned into a major spending activity star with the arrival of Speed (1994). Its prosperity proclaimed a time of five years in which Reeves would exchange between little movies, such as Feeling Minnesota (1996) and The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997), and enormous movies like A Walk in the Clouds (1995) and The Devil's Advocate (1997). (There were two or three failures to discharge, as well: Johnny Mnemonic (1995) and Chain Reaction (1996).) After this, Reeves did the unimaginable and went on the Speed spin-off, yet he struck film industry gold again a couple of years after the fact with the Wachowski kin's cyberadventure, The Matrix (1999).
Presently a bonafide film industry star, Keanu would show up in a string of littler movies - among them The Replacements (2000), The Watcher (2000), The Gift (2000), Sweet November (2001), and Hardball (2001) - before The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003) were both discharged in 2003.
Since the end of The Matrix set of three, Keanu has separated his time amongst standard and outside the box admission, landing hits with Something's Gotta Give (2003), The Lake House (2006), and Street Kings (2008). He's kept Matrix fans satisfied with movies, for example, Constantine (2005), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008). What's more, he's swam again into craftsmanship house domain with Ellie Parker (2005), Thumbsucker (2005), The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009), and Henry's Crime (2010).
Most as of late, as after creation on the samurai epic 47 Ronin (2013) pursued on, Keanu showed up before the camera in Side by Side (2012), a narrative on celluloid and computerized filmmaking, which he likewise delivered. He's additionally coordinating another Asian-affected undertaking, Man of Tai Chi (2013).
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