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Keanu Reeves Biography

Keanu Reeves Profile:
  • Name: Keanu Reeves
  • Birth Name: Keanu Charles Reeves
  • Height: 6'1"
  • Sex: M
  • Nationality: Canadian
  • Birth Date: September 2, 1964
  • Birth Place: Beirut, Lebanon
  • Profession: actor, musician
  • Education: High School for the Performing Arts in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  •   : De La Salle College (dropped out)
  •   : Second City workshop in Toronto
  •   : Hedgerow Theatre in Media, PA.
  • Relationship: Carrie-Anne Moss (actress; dated in 1999), Jennifer Syme
  • Father: Samuel Nowlin Reeves (geologist)
  • Mother: Patricia (costume designer; divorced four times)
  • Sister: Kim Reeves (horse breeder; born in 1966)
  • Half Sister: Karina Miller (born in 1976; father: Robert Miller)
  • Step Father: Jack Bond (hair-salon owner; divorced in 1994), Robert Miller (rock promoter; married for five years), Paul Aaron (theater director; divorced after six months of marriage)
  • Claim to fame: as Ted Theodore Logan in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

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Keanu Reeves Quotes:
  • "My name can't be *that* tough to prounounce"
  • "When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it."
  • "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 drugs] I've had wonderful experiences. I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About a different perspective -- help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships to nature. Relationships with the self. With other people. With events
  • "I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer." [on what he likes about being a rock star]
  • "On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones." [on performing with his band Dogstar]
  • "I just felt that if I went into that picture, I just ... wouldn't have come up out of the water." [on Speed 2] - Premiere. September 1997.
Keanu Reeves Awards:
  • World Stunt Awards: Taurus Honorary Award (2004)
  • Blockbuster Entertainment Award: Favorite Actor - Action/Science Fiction, THE MATRIX (2000)
  • Csapnivalo Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role, THE MATRIX (2000)
  • MTV Movie Awards: Best Fight Sequence, shared with Laurence Fishburne, THE MATRIX (2000)
  • MTV Movie Awards: Best Male Performance, THE MATRIX (2000)
  • MTV Movie Awards: Best On-Screen Duo, SPEED (1995) - shared with Sandra Bullock
  • MTV Movie Awards: Most Desirable Male, POINT BREAK (1992)

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