Keanu Charles Reeves (September 2nd 1964 with Beirut, with the Lebanon -) is a Canadian Acteur . He reaches stardom for his role in Speed , and becomes a world high-speed motorboat for his role in Matrix .

Biography

Keanu was born from a father of origins hawaïenne and Chinese, and from an English mother. It passes its childhood in Australia. When his/her parents divorce, it leaves to New York, then in Toronto, in Canada, with his mother and her two sisters. Impassioned at all by the studies, it leaves the school at 17 years with the firm intention to become actor. It on television makes its beginnings in the series Going Great (1982), then in Canadian productions.

In parallel, Keanu Reeves is impassioned for the Hockey, a sporting discipline which enables him to take down a small role in Youngblood of Peter Markle, at the sides of Patrick Swayze and Rob Lowe. Consequently, it alternates the cinematographic kinds, illustrating in an adaptation of the dangerous Liaisons of Stephen Frears, incarnating a killer psychopathe in I love you to kill you , a comedy of Lawrence Kasdan, or a police officer-surfer in Point Station-wagon , an action film of Kathryn Bigelow.

Become a sure value of Hollywood, Keanu Reeves tries to escape the image from young first, Sex-symbol, which sticks to him with the skin, and to acquire the recognition of its pars while turning under the direction of famous realizers: Gus Van Sant ( My Own Private Idaho where it incarnates a young person discharged at the sides To rivet Phoenix), Francis Ford Coppola ( Bram Stocker' S Dracula ), Kenneth Branagh ( Beaucoup of noise for nothing ) or Bernardo Bertolucci.

In 1994, it divides the poster of Speed with Sandra Bullock which brings an international recognition to him. This success is followed of some commercial failures of which the film Johnny Mnemonic , the lovesong Grape harvest of fire , or the thriller of action Poursuite of Andrew Davis. Despite everything, Keanu Reeves refuses ten million USD to play in Speed 2: Cape on the danger and prefers being the partner of Al Pacino in the Associate of the devil , a thriller of Taylor Hackford which revisits the legend of Faust. He will also refuse the main role in Heat of Michael Mann to play Hamlet in a small production in Canada.

The revolutionist Matrix of the Frères Wachowski gives a new breath to his career. This masterpiece of special effects is one of largest world successes of the year 1999. Will follow two other episodes, Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions (2003), in which it will include the role of Neo.

As from 2000, Keanu Reeves decides to play the bad lots by interpreting a Serial killer in The Watcher of Joe Charbanic, as well as a violent husband in Intuitions of Sam Raimi. It incarnates then in 2001 the trainer of a young team of baseball in Hardball . With Constantine , the actor remains nevertheless faithful to the science fiction.

He finds Sandra Bullock in 2006 in the lovesong Between two banks of Alejandro Agresti.

Catalog of films

External bonds

  • Keanu One Net
  • Keanu Reeves on Internet Movie Database
  • Keanu Connection
  • Keanu Reeves Network
  • Keanu A-Z.com
  • CK: Club Keanu

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