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Keanu Reeves (full name: Keanu Charles Reeves) is a famous actor who was born in Beirut, Lebanon, but grew up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Keanu Reeves had a string of breakout screen roles in the 1980s and early-to-mid 90s, including Bill & Ted\u2019s Excellent Adventure, My Own Private Idaho, Point Break, Much Ado About Nothing, and Speed.<\/p>\n
Keanu Reeves, however, became a genuine superstar thanks to his starring role as Neo in the smash hit Matrix Trilogy in the 90s (a role he reprised in 2022\u2019s The Matrix Resurrections), and later the John Wick series. Other notable roles include the title character, John Constantine, in Constantine, The Lake House, and Street Kings.<\/p>\n
Keanu Reeves is also the director of Man of Tai Chi, and was also the bass player for the musical band Dogstar.<\/p>\n
Keanu Reeves\u2019s Career<\/h2>\n![\"Keanu](\"https:\/\/www.networthinformer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Keanu-Reeves-arrives.jpg\")
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Keanu Reeves regularly appeared on the CBC kids\u2019 show Going Great as a correspondent in 1984, later that year also acting in one episode of Hangin\u2019 In. In 1985, Keanu Reeves took on the role of Mercutio in a production of William Shakespeare\u2019s Romeo and Juliet at a theatre in North York.<\/p>\n
He made another notable stage appearance in a cult play called Wolfboy as well as appearing in Coke commercial and in a short film called One Step Award, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.<\/p>\n
Keanu Reeves appeared in a number of TV movies in 1986, such as Brotherhood of Justice, Act of Vengeance, and Babes in Toyland. His first big screen appearance happened in 1986 in Young Blood, directed by Peter Markle. That same year, he also played the role of Matt in a crime drama called River\u2019s Edge.<\/p>\n
As the 1980s were nearing their end, Keanu Reeves appeared in a number of teen oriented films such as The Night Before, Permanent Record, and The Prince of Pennsylvania. He also landed a supporting part in the acclaimed Dangerous Liaisons in 1988.<\/p>\n
In 1989, Keanu Reeves famously played a time traveling slacker in the comedy hit Bill & Ted\u2019s Excellent Adventure, alongside Alex Winter. It was a hit with critics and audiences. That same year, he also appeared in Ron Howard\u2019s comedy drama film Parenthood.<\/p>\n
In 1990, Keanu Reeves played an incompetent killer in the Tracey Ullman starring black comedy film I Love You to Death, and also appeared in Tune in Tomorrow, as well as taking on the role of James Dean in Paul Abdul\u2019s Rush Rush music video, which was visually inspired by Rebel Without a Cause.<\/p>\n
In 1991, Keanu Reeves reprised his slacker role in the sequel Bill & Ted\u2019s Bogus Journey, and then began to take on more adult roles that very year.<\/p>\n
He appeared alongside River Phoenix as gay street hustlers in Gus Van Sant\u2019s film My Own Private Idaho, a contemporary update of Shakespeare\u2019s King Henry plays, using deliberately anachronistic Shakespearean dialect.<\/p>\n
Keanu Reeves also played an undercover FBI agent in Point Break that year, also starring Patrick Swayze, Gary Busey, and Lori Petty. To prepare for his role, he had to take surfing lessons, which he\u2019d never done before prior to filming. The film was a huge hit, which provided another huge boost to Keanu Reeves net worth.<\/p>\n
That year, he also started a rock band called Dogstar<\/a>, playing the bass.<\/p>\nIn 1992, Keanu Reeves appeared as Jonathan Harker in Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, a film that got mixed response at the time though large box office, but has since been reevaluated as a misunderstood masterpiece and a bit of a cult classic.<\/p>\n
In 1993, Keanu Reeves appeared as the evil Malvolio in Kenneth Branagh\u2019s film version of Shakespeare\u2019s Much Ado About Nothing. The film got great reviews though reaction to his performance was largely negative. His next two films, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Little Buddha, didn\u2019t do well.<\/p>\n
1994 brought Keanu Reeves his first bonafide starring hit, Speed, with Sandra Bullock as well as Dennis Hopper. This film about a cop who has to keep a bus from going under 50 miles per hour or it would blow up was great for Keanu Reeves net worth. The film as critically acclaimed and did massively at the box office.<\/p>\n
Immediately afterwards in 1995, Keanu Reeves starred in the cyberpunk film Johnny Mnemonic, which received a critical drubbing and did terribly at the box office, becoming a bit of a pop culture joke. His role as a young soldier in A Walk in the Clouds that same year did similarly poorly.<\/p>\n
That same year, Keanu Reeves returned to the stage to play Hamlet in Winnipeg, Canada, a performance that received great reviews.<\/p>\n
In 1996, Keanu Reeves did another sci-fi role in the film Chain Reaction, another critical and box office failure. That same year, he turned down 20th Century FOX\u2019s offer for him to star in Speed 2, which kept them from working with him for a decade after.<\/p>\n
Instead, Keanu toured with Dogstar and acted in a film called The Last Time I Committed Suicide. In 1997, he co-starred in the horror film The Devil\u2019s Advocate with Al Pacino, even agreeing to less money so that they could afford Al Pacino. It was a critical and box office triumph.<\/p>\n
And then in 1999, The Matrix, created and directed by the Wachowskis happened, and it was the hugest film of his career ever, providing a massive boost to Keanu Reeves net worth. Keanu Reeves played a hacker called Neo who discovered that the entire world is actually a simulation run by machines essentially feeding off humanity.<\/p>\n
It has been called one of the best sci-fi films ever made, and was an enormous hit and pop cultural phenomenon.<\/p>\n
After this, Keanu Reeves starred in a few smaller films: in 2000, The Replacements, The Watcher, and The Gift; in 2000, Sweet November; in 2001, Hardball.<\/p>\n
In 2003, Keanu Reeves returned as Neo in The Matrix Reloaded as well as The Matrix Revolutions, which came out only six months later, both films having been filmed back to back. The second film got strong reviews, and the third more mixed reactions, but they were both again huge hits.<\/p>\n
Later that year, Keanu Reeves also appeared in a romcom called Something\u2019s Gotta Give with Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson.<\/p>\n
In 2005, Keanu Reeves played the legendary supernatural comic book character John Constantine<\/a> in the film Constantine, appearing alongside Tilda Swinton as the Archangel Michael. The reviews were mixed but the box office was strong. Later that year, he also did a quirky film called Thumbsucker.<\/p>\nIn 2006, Keanu Reeves returned to the sci-fi thriller genre with Richard Linklater\u2019s animated film A Scanner Darkly, based on the Philip K. Dick book. Later that year he reunited with Sandra Bullock in the romantic drama The Lake House, based on a film from South Korea called Il Mare from 2000.<\/p>\n
In 2008, Keanu Reeves played a cop in the film Street Kings, and then did another sci-fi film, The Day the Earth Stood Still, playing an alien called Klaatu. In 2009, he appeared in the romcom The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. In 2010, he did another romcom called Henry\u2019s Crime. In 2013, he directed Man of Tai Chi. In 2013, he appeared in 47 Ronin.<\/p>\n
After a number of lackluster years overall, Keanu Reeves\u2019 film career finally had a major resurgence in 2014 when he starred as John Wick in the film John Wick, in which he plays a retired hitman who seeks vengeance after bad men kill his beloved dog. The film was a massive critical and box office hit due to its heart and jawdropping action.<\/p>\n
In 2015, Keanu Reeves did another smaller film, a horror movie called Knock Knock, which remade Death Game, a film from 1977. He also narrated two documentaries that year: Deep Web, about dark web crimes, and Mifune: The Last Samurai, about a famous Japanese actor, Toshiro Mifune.<\/p>\n
Keanu Reeves was in 5 films the next year: Exposed, about a police detective uncovering corruption in his unit, which got poor reviews. Then, Keanu Reeves did a film called Keanu, in which he played the voice of a kitten called Keanu. Keanu Reeves then had a small part in a psychological horror film called The Noon Demon. The director was Nicolas Winding Refn.<\/p>\n
Keanu Reeves then appeared in a film called The Bad Batch, and then finally The Whole Truth, with Jim Belushi, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Gabriel Basso, and Ren\u00e9e Zellweger. That same year, he also made an appearance in the online TV show Swedish Dicks.<\/p>\n
In 2017, Keanu Reeves returned to the role of John Wick for John Wick: Chapter 2, which picks up on the story of the first instalment and is about John Wick on the run after someone places a bounty on his head. It was another huge hit, even larger than the first film in the franchise.<\/p>\n
That same year, he also played a doctor in the drama film To the Bone, which debuted at Sundance and was then released via Netflix. He also made cameos in the films SPF-18 and A Happening of Monumental Proportions that year.<\/p>\n
In 2018, Keanu Reeves costarred with Winona Ryder in Destination Wedding, a romcom. They had appeared together three times before: in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, A Scanner Darkly, and Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula. That year, he also did two thriller films: Siberia, and Replicas, both of which he also helped co-produce.<\/p>\n
In 2019, Keanu Reeves played John Wick yet again, this time in John Wick: Chapter 3 \u2013 Parabellum. As with the last one, it picks up precisely where the previous film left off, and added a number of new people to the cast, including the Oscar winning Halle Berry. It was another critical and box office hit for Keanu Reeves.<\/p>\n
That year, thanks to this role, Keanu Reeves was nominated for a Favorite Male Movie Star award at the 2019 People\u2019s Choice Awards. The Art Directors Guild Awards almost nominated John Wick: Chapter 3 for their Best Contemporary Film award.<\/p>\n
That same year, Keanu Reeves played the voice of Duke Caboom in Pixar\u2019s Toy Story 4, the fourth of the Toy Story franchise. In April of 2019, Glasgow, Scotland held a Keanu Reeves film festival called KeanuCon, screening 9 of his films over the course of 2 days.<\/p>\n
In 2010, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter resurrected their beloved characters for Bill & Ted Face the Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\nKeanu Reeves Early Life<\/h2>\n
Keanu Reeves was born as Keanu Charles Reeves in Beirut, Lebanon on the second of September in the year 1964 to an English mother from Essex, United Kingdom, Patricia Taylor Reeves, who was a performer and costume designer, and an American father, Samuel Nowlin Reeves Jr, from Hawaii.<\/p>\n
Keanu Reeves\u2019 mom met his dad when was in Beirut for work. When Keanu was only 3, his dad abandoned his mother, his sisters, and him. In 1966, his mom moved them at first to Sydney, Australia, and afterwards, New York City.<\/p>\n
There, in 1970, she married a director named Paul Aaron, and they moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, but they divorced not long afterwards. At the age of 9, Keanu Reeves acted in a local production of the musical Damn Yankees, remaining close with Paul Aaron and getting career advice from him.<\/p>\n
Keanu Reeves and his siblings grew up in Toronto, and he grew up surrounded by both Chinese culture, due to his grandma\u2019s ethnicity, and having his mother\u2019s English manners instilled in him. He also loved British telly including The Two Ronnies.<\/p>\n
Keanu Reeves was very private growing up and went to 4 high schools during his teenage years. When he was 17, he dropped out, got an American green card and relocated to Los Angeles, California, United States of America.<\/p>\n
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Keanu Reeves has a complex ancestry. His mother is English, and his dad came from Hawaii, with Native Hawaiian, Portuguese, Irish, English, and Chinese descent.<\/p>\n
Beginning in 1998, Keanu Reeves was in a relationship with Jennifer Syme, David Lynch\u2019s assistant, which was surrounded by tragedy. In 1999, she gave birth to their daughter stillborn, and in 2001, Jennifer Syme herself died in a tragic car accident.<\/p>\n
Keanu Reeves has also been in romantic relationships with Brenda Davis, a filmmaker, and China Chow, a model and actress. He is currently in a relationship with Alexandra Grant, with whom he wrote two books, Ode to Happiness, and Shadows.<\/p>\n
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Image Credit: Dfree\/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n
Keanu Reeves regularly appeared on the CBC kids\u2019 show Going Great as a correspondent in 1984, later that year also acting in one episode of Hangin\u2019 In. In 1985, Keanu Reeves took on the role of Mercutio in a production of William Shakespeare\u2019s Romeo and Juliet at a theatre in North York.<\/p>\n
He made another notable stage appearance in a cult play called Wolfboy as well as appearing in Coke commercial and in a short film called One Step Award, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.<\/p>\n
Keanu Reeves appeared in a number of TV movies in 1986, such as Brotherhood of Justice, Act of Vengeance, and Babes in Toyland. His first big screen appearance happened in 1986 in Young Blood, directed by Peter Markle. That same year, he also played the role of Matt in a crime drama called River\u2019s Edge.<\/p>\n
As the 1980s were nearing their end, Keanu Reeves appeared in a number of teen oriented films such as The Night Before, Permanent Record, and The Prince of Pennsylvania. He also landed a supporting part in the acclaimed Dangerous Liaisons in 1988.<\/p>\n
In 1989, Keanu Reeves famously played a time traveling slacker in the comedy hit Bill & Ted\u2019s Excellent Adventure, alongside Alex Winter. It was a hit with critics and audiences. That same year, he also appeared in Ron Howard\u2019s comedy drama film Parenthood.<\/p>\n
In 1990, Keanu Reeves played an incompetent killer in the Tracey Ullman starring black comedy film I Love You to Death, and also appeared in Tune in Tomorrow, as well as taking on the role of James Dean in Paul Abdul\u2019s Rush Rush music video, which was visually inspired by Rebel Without a Cause.<\/p>\n
In 1991, Keanu Reeves reprised his slacker role in the sequel Bill & Ted\u2019s Bogus Journey, and then began to take on more adult roles that very year.<\/p>\n
He appeared alongside River Phoenix as gay street hustlers in Gus Van Sant\u2019s film My Own Private Idaho, a contemporary update of Shakespeare\u2019s King Henry plays, using deliberately anachronistic Shakespearean dialect.<\/p>\n
Keanu Reeves also played an undercover FBI agent in Point Break that year, also starring Patrick Swayze, Gary Busey, and Lori Petty. To prepare for his role, he had to take surfing lessons, which he\u2019d never done before prior to filming. The film was a huge hit, which provided another huge boost to Keanu Reeves net worth.<\/p>\n
That year, he also started a rock band called Dogstar<\/a>, playing the bass.<\/p>\n In 1992, Keanu Reeves appeared as Jonathan Harker in Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, a film that got mixed response at the time though large box office, but has since been reevaluated as a misunderstood masterpiece and a bit of a cult classic.<\/p>\n In 1993, Keanu Reeves appeared as the evil Malvolio in Kenneth Branagh\u2019s film version of Shakespeare\u2019s Much Ado About Nothing. The film got great reviews though reaction to his performance was largely negative. His next two films, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Little Buddha, didn\u2019t do well.<\/p>\n 1994 brought Keanu Reeves his first bonafide starring hit, Speed, with Sandra Bullock as well as Dennis Hopper. This film about a cop who has to keep a bus from going under 50 miles per hour or it would blow up was great for Keanu Reeves net worth. The film as critically acclaimed and did massively at the box office.<\/p>\n Immediately afterwards in 1995, Keanu Reeves starred in the cyberpunk film Johnny Mnemonic, which received a critical drubbing and did terribly at the box office, becoming a bit of a pop culture joke. His role as a young soldier in A Walk in the Clouds that same year did similarly poorly.<\/p>\n That same year, Keanu Reeves returned to the stage to play Hamlet in Winnipeg, Canada, a performance that received great reviews.<\/p>\n In 1996, Keanu Reeves did another sci-fi role in the film Chain Reaction, another critical and box office failure. That same year, he turned down 20th Century FOX\u2019s offer for him to star in Speed 2, which kept them from working with him for a decade after.<\/p>\n Instead, Keanu toured with Dogstar and acted in a film called The Last Time I Committed Suicide. In 1997, he co-starred in the horror film The Devil\u2019s Advocate with Al Pacino, even agreeing to less money so that they could afford Al Pacino. It was a critical and box office triumph.<\/p>\n And then in 1999, The Matrix, created and directed by the Wachowskis happened, and it was the hugest film of his career ever, providing a massive boost to Keanu Reeves net worth. Keanu Reeves played a hacker called Neo who discovered that the entire world is actually a simulation run by machines essentially feeding off humanity.<\/p>\n It has been called one of the best sci-fi films ever made, and was an enormous hit and pop cultural phenomenon.<\/p>\n After this, Keanu Reeves starred in a few smaller films: in 2000, The Replacements, The Watcher, and The Gift; in 2000, Sweet November; in 2001, Hardball.<\/p>\n In 2003, Keanu Reeves returned as Neo in The Matrix Reloaded as well as The Matrix Revolutions, which came out only six months later, both films having been filmed back to back. The second film got strong reviews, and the third more mixed reactions, but they were both again huge hits.<\/p>\n Later that year, Keanu Reeves also appeared in a romcom called Something\u2019s Gotta Give with Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson.<\/p>\n In 2005, Keanu Reeves played the legendary supernatural comic book character John Constantine<\/a> in the film Constantine, appearing alongside Tilda Swinton as the Archangel Michael. The reviews were mixed but the box office was strong. Later that year, he also did a quirky film called Thumbsucker.<\/p>\n In 2006, Keanu Reeves returned to the sci-fi thriller genre with Richard Linklater\u2019s animated film A Scanner Darkly, based on the Philip K. Dick book. Later that year he reunited with Sandra Bullock in the romantic drama The Lake House, based on a film from South Korea called Il Mare from 2000.<\/p>\n In 2008, Keanu Reeves played a cop in the film Street Kings, and then did another sci-fi film, The Day the Earth Stood Still, playing an alien called Klaatu. In 2009, he appeared in the romcom The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. In 2010, he did another romcom called Henry\u2019s Crime. In 2013, he directed Man of Tai Chi. In 2013, he appeared in 47 Ronin.<\/p>\n After a number of lackluster years overall, Keanu Reeves\u2019 film career finally had a major resurgence in 2014 when he starred as John Wick in the film John Wick, in which he plays a retired hitman who seeks vengeance after bad men kill his beloved dog. The film was a massive critical and box office hit due to its heart and jawdropping action.<\/p>\n In 2015, Keanu Reeves did another smaller film, a horror movie called Knock Knock, which remade Death Game, a film from 1977. He also narrated two documentaries that year: Deep Web, about dark web crimes, and Mifune: The Last Samurai, about a famous Japanese actor, Toshiro Mifune.<\/p>\n Keanu Reeves was in 5 films the next year: Exposed, about a police detective uncovering corruption in his unit, which got poor reviews. Then, Keanu Reeves did a film called Keanu, in which he played the voice of a kitten called Keanu. Keanu Reeves then had a small part in a psychological horror film called The Noon Demon. The director was Nicolas Winding Refn.<\/p>\n Keanu Reeves then appeared in a film called The Bad Batch, and then finally The Whole Truth, with Jim Belushi, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Gabriel Basso, and Ren\u00e9e Zellweger. That same year, he also made an appearance in the online TV show Swedish Dicks.<\/p>\n In 2017, Keanu Reeves returned to the role of John Wick for John Wick: Chapter 2, which picks up on the story of the first instalment and is about John Wick on the run after someone places a bounty on his head. It was another huge hit, even larger than the first film in the franchise.<\/p>\n That same year, he also played a doctor in the drama film To the Bone, which debuted at Sundance and was then released via Netflix. He also made cameos in the films SPF-18 and A Happening of Monumental Proportions that year.<\/p>\n In 2018, Keanu Reeves costarred with Winona Ryder in Destination Wedding, a romcom. They had appeared together three times before: in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, A Scanner Darkly, and Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula. That year, he also did two thriller films: Siberia, and Replicas, both of which he also helped co-produce.<\/p>\n In 2019, Keanu Reeves played John Wick yet again, this time in John Wick: Chapter 3 \u2013 Parabellum. As with the last one, it picks up precisely where the previous film left off, and added a number of new people to the cast, including the Oscar winning Halle Berry. It was another critical and box office hit for Keanu Reeves.<\/p>\n That year, thanks to this role, Keanu Reeves was nominated for a Favorite Male Movie Star award at the 2019 People\u2019s Choice Awards. The Art Directors Guild Awards almost nominated John Wick: Chapter 3 for their Best Contemporary Film award.<\/p>\n That same year, Keanu Reeves played the voice of Duke Caboom in Pixar\u2019s Toy Story 4, the fourth of the Toy Story franchise. In April of 2019, Glasgow, Scotland held a Keanu Reeves film festival called KeanuCon, screening 9 of his films over the course of 2 days.<\/p>\n In 2010, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter resurrected their beloved characters for Bill & Ted Face the Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n Recommended Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Amanda Peet Net Worth<\/a><\/p>\n Keanu Reeves was born as Keanu Charles Reeves in Beirut, Lebanon on the second of September in the year 1964 to an English mother from Essex, United Kingdom, Patricia Taylor Reeves, who was a performer and costume designer, and an American father, Samuel Nowlin Reeves Jr, from Hawaii.<\/p>\n Keanu Reeves\u2019 mom met his dad when was in Beirut for work. When Keanu was only 3, his dad abandoned his mother, his sisters, and him. In 1966, his mom moved them at first to Sydney, Australia, and afterwards, New York City.<\/p>\n There, in 1970, she married a director named Paul Aaron, and they moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, but they divorced not long afterwards. At the age of 9, Keanu Reeves acted in a local production of the musical Damn Yankees, remaining close with Paul Aaron and getting career advice from him.<\/p>\n Keanu Reeves and his siblings grew up in Toronto, and he grew up surrounded by both Chinese culture, due to his grandma\u2019s ethnicity, and having his mother\u2019s English manners instilled in him. He also loved British telly including The Two Ronnies.<\/p>\n Keanu Reeves was very private growing up and went to 4 high schools during his teenage years. When he was 17, he dropped out, got an American green card and relocated to Los Angeles, California, United States of America.<\/p>\n Recommended Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Michael B Jordan Net Worth<\/a><\/p>\n Image Credit: Ovidiu Hrubaru\/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n Keanu Reeves has a complex ancestry. His mother is English, and his dad came from Hawaii, with Native Hawaiian, Portuguese, Irish, English, and Chinese descent.<\/p>\n Beginning in 1998, Keanu Reeves was in a relationship with Jennifer Syme, David Lynch\u2019s assistant, which was surrounded by tragedy. In 1999, she gave birth to their daughter stillborn, and in 2001, Jennifer Syme herself died in a tragic car accident.<\/p>\n Keanu Reeves has also been in romantic relationships with Brenda Davis, a filmmaker, and China Chow, a model and actress. He is currently in a relationship with Alexandra Grant, with whom he wrote two books, Ode to Happiness, and Shadows.<\/p>\n Recommended Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n
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