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| | " 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."
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| Keanu Reeves was born in Lebanon. He is one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Hawaiian, half-English, and a Canadian citizen. He attended  four high schools, playing hockey and soccer before dropping out at 17. He was raised in Hawaii, Australia, New York, and Canada, where he did his first professional acting. His name comes from a Hawaiian word loosely translated as "cool breeze over the mountains".
At 16, he was in a Coca-Cola commercial, and featured in the Canadian sitcom Hangin` In. He later did a Kellogg`s Corn Flakes commercial, spent a summer studying acting at the Hedgerow Theatre in Pennsylvania. He briefly co-hosted a kids` show in Canada, with Chris Makepeace. At 22, Reeves came to Hollywood, and slept on his former stepfather`s couch until he moved on to his own apartment. In early roles, he played hockey with Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze in Youngblood, and played a troubled teen in River`s Edge with Crispin Glover and Dennis Hopper.He danced Jack-Be-Nimble in a TV production of Babes in Toyland starring 11-year-old Drew Barrymore. In 1989, still playing a teenager at 25, Bill & Ted`s Excellent Adventure made Reeves a star. In 1994, Speed with Sandra Bullock made him an A-list star. As a young actor, Reeves` best friend was River Phoenix. They made My Own Private Idaho together, and joked about filming Romeo and Juliet with Reeves as Romeo and Phoenix as Juliet. Reeves was filming Speed when Phoenix died. Reeves` life has had its share of tragedy. His sister Kim is battling leukemia, and Reeves has reportedly spent in excess of $5 million on her medical care. He has long been estranged from his natural father, who served a prison term for selling heroin. He dated a backstage Hollywood worker, Jennifer Syme, who bore his stillborn daughter in 1999. They broke up but remained friends, though she was killed in a 2001 car accident.
 During his long career, Reeves has occasionally disappeared from Hollywood for a year at a time, and he turned down a $12 million offer for Speed 2 to do Shakespeare on stage in a small Canadian theater. He is famously generous with his money, lavishing large gifts on charities and for his movies` backstage workers. A Buddhist and a pacifist, he opposes war on principle, and has turned down several films
because the part seemed too violent.
Reeves has spoken of using drugs, but is understandably reticent to discuss which drugs he has used. He often says drugs have given him some "amazing" experiences, then pauses, then says "amazing" a second time. |
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| (When told fans document his every move online)
Do they? I don`t know. I haven`t checked it out, you know. I don`t like go home
and like..."Google" me.
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Full Name: |
Keanu Charles Reeves
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Keanu`s Name |
~ Keanu~ - Keanu, is pronounced "keh-ah-noo."
- Keanu" translates to "the coolness" or "the cool winds over the mountain" in Hawaiian"
- In Hawaiin, "ke" means "the" and "anu" means "cool or coolness"; hence "the coolness" or (very) interpretively, "the cool winds over the mountain."
- Named after his uncle Henry Keanu Reeves. "Keanu is a derivation of Reeves`great -great uncle Keaweaheule, whose name means " the soft breeze raising" in Hawaiin.
| | Eye color: | Brown |
Height: |
6' 1 (1.86 m)
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Nickname(s): |
The Wall (due to his position in ice hockey)
Was nicknamed "the wall" by high school hockey team De La Salle College "Oaklands".
The One
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Heritage:
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Keanu is one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Hawaiin, half English, and a Canadian citizen.
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Education: |
Keanu attended Jesse Ketchum Public School in Toronto from kindergarten through the eighth grade, and attended four high schools (including De La Salle College and the Toronto School for the Performing Arts) before dropping out completely at age 17.Keanu took on lots of different jobs, including sharpening skates at an ice rink shop, landscaping, and making pasta.
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Family: |
Stepgrandfather: Made a fortune exporting the Encyclopedia Brittanica to Canada; paternal relative
Father: Samuel Nowlin Reeves, geologist; left when Keanu was two; of Hawaiian-Chinese descent; sentenced to 10 years for cocaine and heroin possession in 1994
Mother: Patricia, costume designer; English
Stepfather: Paul Aaron, theater director; divorced Reeves' mother after six months of marriage
Stepfather: Robert Miller, rock promoter; married to Reeves mother for five years
Stepfather: Jack Bond, hair salon owner; divorced Reeves' mother in 1994
Sister: Kim Reeves, horse breeder; born 1966
Half-sister: Karina Reeves, born 1976; mother, Patricia
Half-sister: Emma Reeves born 1980; father Samuel Nowlin Reeves.
Reeves has never been married. 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. |
Resides in: |
Toronto, Canada |
Religious affiliations: |
Buddhist |
Political affiliation: |
Independant |
Personal interests/hobbies: |
Horseback Riding, Surfing, Ballroom Dancing, Ice Hockey
Reeves rides motorcycles, and leads a largely reclusive life. |
Charities/Causes: |
- Angelwear
- City of Hope
- CoachArt
- LIFEbeat
- Make It Right
- PETA
- Stand Up To Cancer
- Wildlife WayStation
- Spinal Cord Opportunities for Rehabilitaion Endowment
Causes:
- AIDS
- Animals
- Cancer
- Children
- Health
- Poverty
- Homlessness
- Creative Arts
| - Disaster Relief
- Human Rights
- Mental Challenges
- Physical Challenges
- At Risk/ Disadvantaged Youths
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On Acting:
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"For me, acting is very self-involved, especially between projects. Once you get a part, you`re liberated. You can find out what the character thinks."
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January 31, 2005
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