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Born Keanu Charles Reeves
September 2, 1964
Beirut, Lebanon
Occupation Actor, film director, producer, musician
Years active 1984–present
Film :
1986 - River's Edge
1986 - Youngblood
1989 - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
1991 - My Own Private Idaho
1992 - Bram Stoker's Dracula
1994 - Speed
1995 - A Walk in the Clouds
1997 - The Devil's Advocate
1999 - The Matrix
2003 - The Matrix Reloaded
2003 - The Matrix Revolutions
2005 - Constantine
2006 - The Lake House
2006 - A Scanner Darkly
2008 - Street Kings
2008 - The Day the Earth Stood Still
2009 - The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2013 - Man of Tai Chi
2013 - 47 Ronin
2014 - John Wick
From lamebrained young time traveler to mystical science fiction Superman, Keanu Reeves has depicted pretty much every character sort believable in his occasionally fiercely fluctuating profession. Much of the time thrashed by commentators and frequently polarizing gatherings of people suspicious of his ability's actual degree, Reeves has by the by figured out how to keep up his lucrative vocation by adjusting his lesser endeavors with irregular direct hits in the cinema world.
Conceived Keanu Charles Reeves in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 2, 1964, and named for the Hawaiian word that signifies "cool wind over the mountains," the future on-screen character was a world explorer by the age of two, because of his dad's profession as a geologist. His mom, Patricia Taylor, functioned as a showgirl and later an ensemble creator of film and organize, and after his guardians separated, Reeves took after his mom and sister to live in New York; the trio would later migrate to Toronto - where Reeves' enthusiasm for ice hockey and acting took a considerable priority over scholastics. His imposing vicinity before the objective in the end earned Reeves the epithet "The Wall," and it wasn't much sooner than all enthusiasm for school melted away and the capable goalie chose to seek after acting.
Later acting as a chief in a Toronto pasta shop, Reeves soon started turning up in little parts on different Canadian TV projects, making his component debut in the 1985 Canadian film One Step Away before American groups of onlookers got their first great take a gander at him in the 1986 Rob Lowe dramatization Youngblood. Along these lines backpedaling to TV and collecting positive notification for his part in 1986's Young Again, it was the arrival of Tim Hunter's The River's Edge soon thereafter that would give Reeves his leap forward part. A frightening story of high schooler lack of concern in residential community America, The River's Edge gave Reeves an impeccable chance to show his emotional reach, and the film would in the long run turn into a minor exemplary in adolescent anxiety silver screen.
Showing up in a progression of once in a while idiosyncratic at the end of the day forgettable endeavors in the accompanying couple of years, 1988 discovered Reeves drawing ideal gestures for his part in chief Stephen Frears' Dangerous Liaisons. It was the next year's Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, on the other hand, that would change the performer into something of a '80s symbol. Reeves' execution of a dumb, air guitar wielding wannabe rocker going through time keeping in mind the end goal to finish his history report and graduate from secondary school demonstrated so endearingly senseless that it generated both a continuation (1991's Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey) and a Saturday morning toon. In an odd spot of destiny, Reeves and co-star Alex Winter had at first tried out for the inverse parts from those in which they were eventually thrown. In spite of the fact that he would later offer varieties of the character sort in such endeavors as Parenthood (1989) and I Love You to Death (1990), it wasn't much sooner than Reeves was hoping to split far from the pattern and take his vocation to the following level.
In the wake of drawing positive surveys for his turn as a rich child turned road trickster inverse River Phoenix in Gus Van Sant's 1991 dramatization My Own Private Idaho, Reeves combat the undead in Francis Ford Coppola's extravagant creation of Dracula (1992). Demonstrating his steadfastness toward kindred Bill and Ted companion Winter with a comical expanded cameo in Freaked the next year, Reeves at the end of the day collaborated with Van Sant for the basically destroyed Even Cowgirls Get the Blues before amazing groups of onlookers with an out of the blue complex execution as Siddhartha in Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha (1993).
Pretty much as groups of onlookers were starting to inquire as to whether they may have thought little of Reeves ability as an on-screen character, the mid-'90s discovered his vocation making a startling move in the direction of move movies with the arrival of Jan de Bont's 1994 uber hit Speed (Reeves would at last decrease to show up in the film's terrible spin-off). Offsetting such enormous planned adrenaline
