Keanu Charles Reeves (born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian actor. Born in Beirut, Reeves grew up in Toronto and began acting in theatre productions and in television films before making his feature film debut in Youngblood. He had his breakthrough role in the science fiction comedy Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. He gained praise for playing a hustler in the independent drama My Own Private Idaho. He established himself as an action hero with leading roles in Point Break and Speed. Greater stardom came for playing Neo in The Matrix, beginning in 1999. He made a comeback by playing the titular assassin in the John Wick film series, starting in 2014.
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Keanu Charles Reeves (born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian actor. Born in Beirut, Reeves grew up in Toronto and began acting in theatre productions and in television films before making his feature film debut in Youngblood. He had his breakthrough role in the science fiction comedy Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. He gained praise for playing a hustler in the independent drama My Own Private Idaho. He established himself as an action hero with leading roles in Point Break and Speed. Greater stardom came for playing Neo in The Matrix, beginning in 1999. He made a comeback by playing the titular assassin in the John Wick film series, starting in 2014. In addition to acting, Reeves has directed the film Man of Tai Chi. He has played bass guitar for the band Dogstar and pursued other endeavours such as writing and philanthropy. He is the son of Patricia, a costume designer and performer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves Jr. His mother is English, originating from Essex, and his father is from Hawaii, and is of Native Hawaiian, Chinese, English, Irish and Portuguese descent. His father abandoned his wife and family when Reeves was three years old, and Reeves last met his father on the island of Kauai when he was 13. Reeves holds Canadian citizenship by naturalization. In 1984, Reeves was a correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation youth television program Going Great. That same year, he made his acting debut in an episode of the television series, called Hangin’ In.
In 1985, he played Mercutio in a stage production of Romeo and Juliet at the Leah Posluns Theatre in North York, Ontario. He also appeared in a commercial for the National Film Board of Canada coming-of-age, short film One Step Away. Reeves made a foray into television films in 1986, including One Step away, Toyland, and Toyland Babes. He was cast in a low-budget romantic drama, Flying the Flying, about a group of high school friends dealing with a murder case, loosely based on the 1981 murder of Marcy Renee Conrad. He played a goalkeeper in Peter Markle’s Youngblood in which he played a high school goalkeeper, and was cast as Matt River’s boyfriend in the romantic drama The Lake House. He appeared in the TV series The Day the Earth Stood Still and the crime thriller Street Kings. Reeves’ mother married Robert Miller, a rock music promoter, in 1976; the couple divorced in 1980. She subsequently married her fourth husband, a hairdresser named Jack Bond; the marriage lasted until 1994. Reeves and his sisters grew up primarily in the Yorkville neighbourhood of Toronto, with a nanny caring for them frequently. Reeves said he was expelled because he was “just a little too rambunctious and shot my mouth off once too often… I was not generally the most well-oiled machine in the school’s.’’
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