Keanu Reeves's biography

Keanu Charles Reeves is 58 years old television actor born at Beirut, Lebanon. Keanu was born on Wednesday 2nd of September 1964. Keanu is often nicknamed as The One, The Wall, Keanu Reeves, Keanu Charles Reeves. According to year of birth 1964 he belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 2nd of September means he is Virgo. Virgo is an earthy sign of Zodiac Belt. People born under this Rising Sign are practical in nature. They believe in reality and represents themselves as a strong person.

He is native english speaker. He is multiracial canadian. He is citizen of Canada. Keanu is agnostic. Keanu´s primary profession is to be television actor. You can know Keanu also as film actor, actor, film producer, film director, singer, voice actor. Keanu is recently known as musician. He received MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo Speed in 1995

Keanu Reeves's dad

Keanu Reeves's father's name is Samuel Nowlin Reeves, Jr.. His father was born in 1942. Keanu´s father died on Friday 26th of January 2018. Samuel Nowlin Reeves, Jr. was 54 years old, when this happened.

Keanu Reeves's mom

Keanu Reeves's mother's name is Patricia Taylor. His mother was born in 1945. Keanu Reeves was born when she was only 19 years old.

Keanu Reeves's schools

We found 5 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: De La Salle College, Etobicoke School of the Arts, Avondale Secondary Alternative School, North Toronto Collegiate Institute, American Community School at Beirut.

Detailed informations about his schools

He attended high school at North Toronto, where his drama teacher was Paul Robert.

Keanu Reeves's career

His main focus is to be television actor. Keanu is famous thanks to Dracula, Speed, The Matrix Trilogy. You could see Keanu also in Point Break, The Matrix. Maybe you are curious what instrument does he play ? Keanu plays bass.

Is Keanu Reeves gay ?

He is known to be straight.

Keanu Reeves's girlfriends

Alexandra Grant

Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant have been together. She is known as artist. Keanu´s girlfriend was born on Wednesday 4th of April 1973 in Fairview Park.

Jennifer Syme

Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Syme have been together since 1998 for 2 years. She is known as actor. His girlfriend was born on Thursday 7th of December 1972 in Pico Rivera. His girlfriend died on Monday 2nd of April 2001 in Los Angeles. Jennifer Syme was 37 years old, when this happened.

Awards and competitions

Keanu Reeves's Awards

Keanu received award for MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo for work Speed in 1995
He received award for MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Male for work Point Break in 1992
Keanu received award for MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance for work The Matrix in 2000

Keanu Reeves's Rankings

Ranked #23 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

What else you don't know about Keanu Reeves ?

His middle name is Charles. He likes to spend time in: Toronto, Canada, Beverly Hills, California.

What Keanu Reeves has done for a first time

His first name, Keanu, is pronounced "kee-ah-noo".
His first theater work was with Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts in "The Tempest".
(August 4, 2001) Played baseball in the Dodgers Stadium, for the 43rd Hollywood Stars Celebrity Baseball Game. His team won 5 to 4. This was the first time Keanu played baseball.
When Reeves first arrived in Hollywood, his agent thought his first name was too exotic, so during the early days of his film career he is sometimes credited as K.C. Reeves, Norman Kreeves or Chuck Spadina.

Keanu Reeves's quotes

My name can't be *that* tough to pronounce!
When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.
[when told he would have to "bite the bullet"] Yes, but I don't have to eat the whole rifle.
I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.
I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
[on being a star] It can still be very surreal. It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued be the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.
[when asked if he had any fears] I used to have nightmares that they would put "He played Ted" on my tombstone.
I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.
Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.
It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.
[on River Phoenix] River was a remarkable artist and a rare human being. I miss him every day.
[on auditioning for Oliver Stone's The Doors (1991)] I auditioned a few times, but I don't think I was ever seriously in the running. I was terrified. I just read some of Jim Morrison's poetry and listened to some of his music and did what I could.
[on his beliefs] Sure I believe in God and the Devil but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.
[on turning down Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)] They said, "You've got to do this", And I said, "I read the script and I can't. It's called Speed and it's on a cruise ship." I didn't work at Fox for 15 years.
I love riding my bike through Los Angeles on the Pacific Coast Highway. I also go to the Santa Monica Mountains. It is like losing myself, like playing a musical instrument or any other pastime that takes away regular cares and responsibilities.
[on what would surprise people about him] I read a lot. I have just finished Proust's A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu and John Updike's Rabbit novels. That was cool, reading literature looking at America over the past 40 years.
[I am trying to give up] smoking. I didn't even start until I was 30. I got hooked making Feeling Minnesota and now it's a prison, but I want to stop.
I don't shop a lot, but I do like nice clothes and, I guess, if I have a look it is suits and T-shirts with casual boots. I like to have a suit that fits well. I wear Kiton, Costume National and Gucci once in a while.
Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.
How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.
I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.
I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.
I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.
People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.
It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.
I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.
I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.
But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure'. They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.
I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.
When the people you love are gone, you're alone.
You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.
Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.
But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.
When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.
On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.
I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.
I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.
Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.
I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.
Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.
I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera.
Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.
How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.
I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
[answering Stephen Colbert's question made on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) about what happens when people die] I know that the ones who loves us will miss us.
You're breathtaking! You're all breathtaking!

Keanu Reeves's height, weight, body shape, eye color, hair color

Lets describe how Keanu Reeves looks. We will focus on his height, weight, body shape, eye color, hair color and shoe size. He is tall as 6' 1" (185 cm). He weights 205lbs (93 kg). Body build is slim. His eyes are tinted brown - dark. Keanu´s hair is shade of black. If you are really curious, you may find interesting his shoe size is 10.

Keanu Reeves