Keanu Reeves

Romance may be back on the menu for 'The Matrix' star Keanu

2007-10-28T21:13:00.000-07:00

He's romanced countless numbers of Hollywood beauties on the big screen, and now it seems Keanu Reeves may have found a new leading lady in his private life, too. The Toronto-raised star was spotted out with a female companion in New York, and if appearances are anything to go by, the pair could very well be more than just friends.

After they'd shared an a deux lunch together, the 43-year-old actor was spotted planing a tender kiss on his pretty blonde date. It was a rare public display of affection from the star, who is closely guarded about his private life and has had few serious relationships since his on-off girlfriend Jennifer Syme was killed in a 2001 car crash.

The hunky screen star, who's just finished lensing crime thriller The Night Watchmen in LA, once looked as though he'd never settle down. At one point he based himself in an LA hotel home and spent years on the road touring with his rock band Dogstar.

Friday, February 23, 2007

2007-09-20T21:49:00.000-07:00

Keanu Enlists as 'Night Watchman'

'Matrix' man KEANU REEVES will next star in 'The Night Watchman,' written by 'L.A. Confidential' and 'The Black Dahlia' author JAMES ELLROY, according to Daily Variety. Production is expected to begin at the end of April on the drama about a by-the-book cop who decides he must change the rules in order to get by in a world of homicide and gang violence.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

2007-09-20T21:48:00.000-07:00

Awards Honour Keanu

Year Award Description
2004	World Stunt Awards	Taurus Honorary Award
2000	Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	Favorite Actor - Action/Science Fiction
2000	Csapnivalo Awards	Best Actor in a Leading Role
2000	MTV Movie Award	Best Male Performance
2000	MTV Movie Award	Best Fight
1995	MTV Movie Award	Best On-Screen Duo
1992	MTV Movie Award	Most Desirable Male

Reeves Trivia

2007-09-20T21:46:00.000-07:00

He has given a gift of several million dollars of his back-end deal for The Matrix and its sequels to a group of 29 technical personnel such as special-effects and costume-design workers for their work. Reeves supported the Wachowski brothers signing away $38 million (his cut of the films' ticket sales) to cover the expenses for the special effects in The Matrix sequels so that the movies could be finished. After filming The Matrix Reloaded Reeves had a dozen Harleys delivered to the set as a gift for his stunt men. He was one of People's 1995 "50 Most Beautiful People of the World". According to an ETonline survey in 2006, he is in "Top Ten of America's Favorite Stars".

Keanu Filmography

2007-09-20T21:44:00.000-07:00

Year	Title	Role
1986	Flying	Tommy
Babes in Toyland	Jack	---
River's Edge	Matt	---
1988	Permanent Record	Chris Townsend
The Prince of Pennsylvania	Rupert Marshetta	---
The Night Before	Winston Connely	---
Dangerous Liaisons	Le Chevalier Raphael Danceny	---
1989	Bill Ted's Excellent Adventure	Ted Theodore Logan
Parenthood	Tod Higgins	---
1990	I Love You to Death	Marlon James
Tune in Tomorrow	Martin Loader	---
1991	Point Break	FBI Special Agent John 'Johnny' Utah
Bill Ted's Bogus Journey	Ted Theodore Logan/Evil ed	---
My Own Private Idaho	Scott Favor	---
1992	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Jonathan Harker
1993	Much Ado About Nothing	Don John
1994	Even Cowgirls Get the Blues	Julian Gitche
>Little Buddha	Siddhartha	---
Speed	Officer Jack Traven	---
1995	Johnny Mnemonic	Johnny Mnemonic
A Walk in the Clouds	Paul Sutton	---
Chain Reaction	Eddie Kasalivich	---
1996	Feeling Minnesota	Jjaks Clayton
1997	The Last Time I Committed Suicide	Harry
The Devil's Advocate	Kevin Lomax	---
1999	The Matrix	Thomas Anderson/Neo
2000	The Replacements	Shane Falco
The Watcher	David Allen Griffin	---
The Gift	Donnie Barksdale	---
2001	Sweet November	Nelson Moss
Hardball	Conor O'Neill	---
2003	The Matrix Reloaded	Thomas Anderson/Neo
The Matrix Revolutions	Thomas Anderson/Neo	---
Something's Gotta Give	Dr. Julian Mercer	---
2005	Constantine	John Constantine
Thumbsucker	Perry Lyman	---
2006>	The Lake House	Alex Wyler
A Scanner Darkly	Fred/Bob Arctor	---
Fishing for Moonlight	---	---
2007	Stompanato	Johnny Stompanato

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

2007-09-20T21:41:00.000-07:00

Keanu Small Screen Show

Night Heat - episode Crossfire (1985) as Mugge

Night Heat - episode Necessary Force (1985) as Thug #1

Letting Go (1985) as Stereo Teen #1

Brotherhood of Justice (1986) asDerek

Act of Vengeance (1986) as Buddy Martin

Young Again (1986) as Michael Riley, Age 17 (credited as K.C. Reeves)

Under the Influence (1986) as Eddie Talbot

Babes in Toyland (1986) as Jack-Be-Nimble

Trying Times - episode Moving Day (1987) as Joey

Life Under Water (1989) - Kip

The Tracey Ullman Show - episode Two Lost Souls (1989) as Jesse Walker

Keanu Personal Diary

2007-09-20T21:38:00.000-07:00

In December 1999, Reeves' girlfriend, Jennifer Syme, gave birth to a stillborn daughter who was named Ava Archer Syme Reeves. In April 2001, Syme was killed in a car accident. She was buried next to their daughter in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.Reeves has never reconnected with his estranged biological father, who served time in prison and was paroled after serving two years of a 10-year sentence for selling heroin at Hilo Airport in 1992.

Reeves enjoys riding motorcycles and coined the term "demon ride" to describe how he often rides with no headlights at night. On one of his "demon rides" in 1988, he crashed near Topanga Canyon and broke several ribs and ruptured his spleen; he has had an abdominal scar ever since when the paramedics arrived an emergency medical technician trainee dropped one end of the stretcher by mistake. He does not formally practice any religion, although he has a Christian background and is interested in Buddhism.

Reeves is fond of chess, motorcycles, ice hockey, and table tennis. He is left-handed, but plays the bass guitar right-handed and loves punk rock bands such as the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, and the Clash, as well as legendary R&B singers such as Stevie Wonder and Otis Redding. Reeves is reported to be very generous with his time and money, lending both to a variety of causes. He took a significant amount of the profits from his Matrix series and treated the twelve stuntmen who worked on the films to motorcycles, among other things. In June 2006, he said that he would like to get married and to have children.

Keanu Reeves Career

2007-09-20T21:35:00.000-07:00

Reeves made his screen acting debut in Canada, in a 1979 CBC production, Hanging In. Throughout the early 1980s, he appeared in commercials (including one for Coca-Cola), short films and stage work in Toronto.His first studio movie appearance was in the Rob Lowe ice hockey film Youngblood, which was filmed in Canada. In it, he played an ice hockey goalie. Shortly after the movie's release, Reeves obtained his green card and drove from Toronto to Los Angeles in his 1969 Volvo.

After a few minor roles, he gained the notice of the critics in 1986's River's Edge, a teenage drama that received positive reviews. Following the film's success, he spent the late 1980s appearing in a number of movies aimed at teenage audiences, including Permanent Record, a dark film about teenage suicide, and the successful 1989 comedy, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, which (along with its 1991 sequel, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey) typecast Reeves somewhat during the next few years, as much of his subsequent portrayal in the press has been influenced by his portrayal of the comically airheaded character, Ted. Reeves was originally offered the role of Pvt. Chris Taylor in Platoon (1986) but turned it down as he disliked the violence involved; the role went to Charlie Sheen.

During the early 1990s, Reeves appeared in high-budget action films like Point Break and lower-budget independent films, including the well-received 1991 film, My Own Private Idaho, and the critically hated 1994 film, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.In 1992, Reeves starred in Bram Stoker's Dracula, which was a box office success. However, his acting was criticized by many, and director Francis Ford Coppola claims that Reeves was only cast because he wanted a male character that teenagers could look up to. In 1994, Reeves also starred in the action film Speed, which was a commercial success and raised his profile, leading to his casting in films like Johnny Mnemonic and Chain Reaction, both of which failed at the box office.

Hitting a low in his career, Reeves then did the unthinkable and turned down the role of Jack Traven in the Speed sequel (which was ultimately a critical and financial disappointment). He was reportedly offered $11 million dollars for the sequel but opted instead to star in the horror/drama The Devil's Advocate with Al Pacino and Charlize Theron. Reeves deferred his salary for The Devil's Advocate so that Pacino would be cast, and he did the same for The Replacements, guaranteeing the casting of Gene Hackman. In 1995, Reeves performed the title role in a Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Hamlet in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

His 1999 science fiction hit, The Matrix, re-established him as a Hollywood leading man after a few years of films that received only moderate box office success and mixed critical reception.In between the first Matrix film and its sequels, Reeves appeared in several films that received mostly negative reviews and average box office grosses, including The Watcher, Sweet November and Hardball. However, the two Matrix sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, as well as his 2005 horror-action film, Constantine, proved to be box office successes and brought Reeves back into the public spotlight.On January 31, 2005, Reeves received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Reeves accompanied former Speed costar Sandra Bullock to the 2006 Academy Awards, which caused some controversy, as Bullock is married to bike builder Jesse James. It was later revealed to be a publicity stunt to coincide with Bullock and Reeves having a movie rolling out that same year called The Lake House.His film A Scanner Darkly was released on July 7, 2006, shortly after the June 2006 release of The Lake House, in which he played a starring role.

K.C.Reeves Become Keanu

2007-09-20T21:28:00.000-07:00

Reeves was born to Samuel Nowlin Reeves, Jr. born 1942, an American geologist, and Patricia Taylor born 1944, an English showgirl and costume designer who was working in Beirut.The name originated with Reeves' great-great-uncle Keaweaheulu, whose name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian.
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 was sometimes credited as K.C. Reeves, Norman Kreeves or Chuck Spadina an avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Reeves has a sister, Kim a half-sister named Karina Miller and another half-sister named Emma Rose Reeves. Kim has been battling leukemia for several years. Keanu visits her often at the home he purchased for her on the island of Capri.

Reeves grew up in Toronto and worked at a pasta shop, sharpened skates at an ice rink, and was voted MVP on his high school ice hockey team De La Salle College.Within a span of five years, Reeves attended four different high schools, including a performing arts school from which he was expelled. Reeves began his acting career at the age of 15, appearing in a stage production of Romeo and Juliet at the Leah Posluns Theatre. After leaving the Catholic boys' high school where he played ice hockey, he attended a free school, which allowed him to obtain an education while working as an actor; he later dropped out, never obtaining his high school diploma.