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| Keanu Reeves |
| Birth Name: Keanu Charles Reeves Date of Birth: September 2, 1964 Birth Place: Beirut, Lebanon Height: 6'1" Weight: 175 lb Hair/Eyes: Brown/Brown Parents: divorced; Father; Samuel Nowling, Geologist. Mother; Patricia Reeves, Costume Designer Siblings: Kim and Karina Occupations: Actor, Musician Agency: Creative Artist Agency Factoid: Plays in a band named Dogstar |
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| Biography |
| Keanu Charles Reeves was born on September 2, 1964, in Beirut, Lebanon to Samuel Nowling Reeves (half Hawaiing, half Chinese) and Patricia Taylor (English). They moved to Australia for a year where his first sister was born, Kim, in 1966. A second (half) sister, Karina, was born in 1976. Keanu (Keu-ah-nu) means "cool brease over the mountains" in Hawaiian. |
| After their divorce, Patric and Samuel went theit separate ways; Patric and the two kids moved to New York City and Samuel to Hawaii. Keanu visited his father on occasion in Hawaii until he was thirtheen. That was the last time Keanu saw him. Samuel was sentenced in 1994 to ten years in prison for drug possesions. He was paroled in mid-1996. They do not maintain contact with each other. |
| In NYC Patric met and married director Paul Aaron and they moved to Toronto. But they split up less than a year later. Patric switched partners a few times more and moved as often. Her third husband was rock promoter Robert Miller (with whom she had Karina) and her fourth was Jack Bond. Whom she divorced in 1994. |
| Keanu attended Jesse Ketchum Public School in Toronta from kindergarten to eight grade, and attended four highschools, before dropping out completely at age 17. |
| Keanu took on lots of different jobs, including sharping skates at an ice ring shop, landscaping and making pasta (and managing the place to boot). Then came some stage work and some small parts on TV. Keanu first big feature fim debut in a US film was in Youngblood, in which he had a small part. |
| His parts soon started to grow. But it was in 1994 in Speed that really made everyone stand up and notice him. |
| After fiming The Devil's Advocate, he went off to Australia to film The Matrix. No one knew what to expect from it, but it turned out to be a huge blockbuster, when it opened in the spring of 1999. The Matrix brought Keanu back front and center in the public eye and catapulted him in the top ranks of money earners, with an asking salary of $20 Million Dollars per picture. |
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