Keanu Charles Reeves (born in September 2, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon) is an Anglo/Canadian Hollywood film actor. Although presently working in the United States, Reeves has dual citizenship in two Canada & a UK, and is an inspiring ice hockey player/fan who was his high school team's MVP.

His 1st title refers to a cool breeze on top the mountains (Or 'coolness') around Hawaiian. A deeper meaning is "one who is constantly absorbed in God consciousness," when a magazine Time refers to him as a embodiment of "freon-cool satori." His father, Samuel Reeves, is of Chinese, Irish & Hawaiian descent, and his mother, Patricia Taylor (pronounced Patrice), is British. He has a single sister, Kim, world health organization sleep in Capri, Italy and is very ill by having leukemia, which she has been battling for many years. He besides has the half-sister, Karina.

Biography
Reeves gained a notice of the critics around 1986's ''River's Edge, but his first major film role was in 1986, in the hockey movie YoungBlood'', starring Rob Lowe. Reeves's foremost popularly successful film was ''Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, in 1989. Indeed, & peradventure alas for Reeves, good deal of his subsequent portrayal in the click has been influenced by his comically giddy character Ted in this film.

His act within diverse roles span from either microscopic independent picture like My Own Private Idaho to major blockbusters like The Matrix. Reeves reprised his starring role from either that picture for the sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions'', both pack-professional hits.

Within December 1999, Reeves' girlfriend, Jennifer Syme, gave birth to his stillborn daughter world health organization was known as 'Ava Archer Reeves'. Within April 2001, Jennifer Syme was killed within an automobile accident. She was buried next to their girl in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

In January 31, 2005, Keanu Reeves was honored with the star on the Hollywood Hike of Fame for his accomplishment in the show business. Ordinarily this honor is attached sustaining a recent design from either the creative person, Reeves' was his latest film Constantine.

Reeves is reported to become super generous using his instance & money, lending each to the kind of induces. He took the important total of the gains from either his Matrix series & treated a Twelve firm-industrious stuntmen to motorcycles, among other items. He doesn't keep around (by 'Hollywood' standards) numerous possessions & keeps his life unlittered. He began swimming bass with the rock band Dogstar, which has now no more "into hibernation". Further recently, he played bass inside the band known as [http://beckymusic.com Becky] using previous Dogstar drummer Rob Mailhouse, guitar player Paulie Costa & singer Rebecca Lord. Inside early 2005, he announced that he left a b& and his musical career permanently.

Trivia

Unlike several actors of now, Reeves is known to defer pay in case it means generating a second actor for the film. He deferred his pay for ''The Devil's Advocate so Al Pacino could be cast, and The Replacements for Gene Hackman.

Reeves when managed the pasta shop in Toronto. (Source: A Book of Useless Info, home Eighteen, published 2002.)

He is reportedly fond of chess, motorcycles, hockey, & plays the fierce game of ping-pong.

After he received his star in the Hollywood Hike of Fame, many ads were published congratulating Reeves on getting his star, one of the children wwhen signed as Sandy B. when around Sandra Bullock his Speed Co-star, she congratulated him & required him to run a equivalent whilst she had hers... Two or three weeks late Sandra received her star & she had her 1 website congrat ad from either "Neo" himself.

Reeves has an unaccountable habit of working by having fellow actors supplementary than it used to be that: Charlize Theron: The Devil's Advocate, Sweet November Rachel Weisz: Chain Reaction, Constantine Sandra Bullock: Speed, and a coming Il Mare Tilda Swinton: Constantine, Thumbsucker'' Vincent D'Onofrio: Feeling Minnesota, Thumbsucker Winona Ryder: Dracula and the upcoming A Scanner Darkly Uma Thurman: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Dangerous Liaisons Patrick Swayze: Youngblood, Point Break Alex Winter: ''Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, Freaked River Phoenix: My Own Private Idaho, I Love You to Death Lori Loughlin: The Brotherhood of Justice, The Night Before Delroy Lindo: The Devil's Advocate, Feeling Minnesota Fred Ward: The Prince of Pennsylvania, Chain Reaction Dennis Hopper: '' River's Edge, Speed

Is left handed however plays a bass guitar right.

Loves punk rock bands such as The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, etc. inside point of fact, Reeves filled in in bass for The Vandals, on the freshly years eve indicate, when bassist Joe Escalante was at a wedding, within 1992.

Filmography
One Step Away (1985) Flying (1986) Youngblood (1986) River's Edge (1986) Babes In Toyland (1986) The Night Before (1988) Premanent Record (1988) The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988) Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) Parenthood (1989) I Love You to Death (1990) Tune in Tomorrow... (1990) Providence (1991) Point Break (1991) Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) My Own Private Idaho (1991) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Much Ado About Nothing (1993) Freaked (1993) (Cameo) Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993) Little Buddha (1993) Speed (1994) Johnny Mnemonic (1995) A Walk in the Clouds (1995) Chain Reaction (1996) Feeling Minnesota (1996) The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) The Devil's Advocate (1997) The Matrix (1999) Me and Will (1999) (Cameo) The Replacements (2000) The Watcher (2000) The Gift (2000) Sweet November (2001) Hardball (2001) The Matrix Reloaded (2003) The Animatrix: Kid's Story (2003) (voice) (short subject) Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003) (documentary) The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Something's Gotta Give (2003) Thumbsucker (2005) Constantine (2005) The Lake House (2006) (currently within post-production) A Scanner Darkly (2006) Fishing for Moonlight(2006) (currently inside pre-production) The Night Watchman (2006) (currently inside pre-production) Stompanato'' (2007) (currently inside pre-production)