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Biography
 

Full Name: Keanu Charles Reeves (named after his great, great uncle)

Nickname: The Wall (high school hockey team - La Salle)

Date of birth: September 2nd, 1964

Place of Birth: Beirut, Lebanon

Height: 6' 1"

Weight: about 175lbs (but it really depends on a character he's playing)

His sisters are Karina (age 22) and Kim (32) (1999)

His Father - Samuel Reeves - is part Chinese part Hawaiian;
His Mother - Patricia Reeves - English

His step-father, Paul Aaron is a film and stage Director.
 

Keanu's Facts:
 

  • Keanu loves Ballroom dancing;
  • His father left the family when Keanu was very young;
  • Keanu is left-handed;
  • Plays bass guitar for the band Dogstar;
  • Loves to play ice hockey (goalie position);
  • In Hawaiian,"ke" means "the" and "anu" means "cool or coolness"; hence "the
  • coolness" or (very) interpretively, "the cool winds over the mountain";
  • He dropped out of high school when was 17 to become an actor;
  • Keanu got an abdominal scar from a motorcycle wreck in Topanga Canyon. He was on a "demon ride" (no headlights at night) when he crashed into the side of a mountain. He was hospitalized for a week with broken ribs and a ruptured spleen. When the paramedics came to get  him,  an  emergency medical  technician  trainee  picked  up  one  end  of  the stretcher ... then dropped it by mistake! "It made me laugh, but I couldn't breathe!".
    • His life:

    As a child, Keanu spent most of his time traveling the world with his mother. In fact, he was born in Beirut,Lebanon on September 2, 1964 and his younger sister, Kim, was born in Australia. The family moved from Lebanon to New York, then on to Toronto where they remained.
    Keanu found two loves at an early age, hockey and the theater. He started
    acting in Toronto during High School, and began landing roles in plays and
    commercials. It was the desire to act that eventually brought him to Los
    Angeles in 1983. He also continued to play hockey, as a transplanted Canadian in southern California. Keanu plays as a goalie duing ice hockey and as a forward on a foot hockey team, the Hollywood Hoofs. The Hoofs actually came in second place in the NHL Breakout Contest in Santa Monica in 1995.

    Keanu’s love for music also started at an early age, however, he didn’t begin  playing the bass until he was twenty-three. Self taught, except for one lesson, he would spend hours a day picking away at the four-stringed bass. Meeting Rob in 1991 lead to his first band experience jamming in his garage, and eventually  playing some live shows, then on to what we all know today.

    His passions: 2 Norton Motorcycles: a 1974 Combat Commando 850 and a 1972 Commando 750 and an old couch he keeps on his sister’s house :o)
     

    Curiosities:
     

  • In 1995 he played Hamlet on stage at Manitoba Theatre Center in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada;
  • In 1995 was a presenter at the Academy Awards;
  • In 1995 won the MTV Movie Awards for "Best Unscreen Duo"  (together  with Sandra Bullock);
  • He played the James Dean role in Paula Abdul's "Rush Rush" music video, which is based on the film "Rebel Without A Cause." ;
  • Presented the award for "Most Desireable Female" in 1992;
  • In 2000 won the MTV Movie Awards for "Best Fight" (together with Laurence Fishburne)
  • In 2000 won the MTV Movie Awards for Best Actor (in 'The Matrix')
    • Other small parts:
     
  • (1988) Played Trinculo (The Tempest)
  • (1988) "MTV" commerical
  • (1983) Played Mercutio (Romeo & Juliet) on stage
  • (1983) TV commercial for Coca-Cola, TV commercial for Kellogs Cornflakes