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Keanu Reeves

April 27, 2023

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Not to be confused with Keanna Reeves.

Keanu Charles Reeves (/kiˈɑːnuː/ kee-AH-noo;[4][5][6] born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian[b] actor. Born in Beirut and raised in Toronto, Reeves began acting in theatre productions and in television films before making his feature film debut in Youngblood (1986). He had his breakthrough role in the science fiction comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), and he reprised his role in its sequels. He gained praise for playing a hustler in the independent drama My Own Private Idaho (1991) and established himself as an action hero with leading roles in Point Break (1991) and Speed (1994).

Keanu Reeves
Reeves in 2019
Born
Keanu Charles Reeves

(1964-09-02) September 2, 1964 (age 58)
Beirut, Lebanon
NationalityCanadian
Occupations
  • Actor
  • musician
Years active1984–present
WorksFull list
Partner(s)Jennifer Syme
(1998–2001; her death)
Alexandra Grant
(c. 2018–present)[a]
Children1 (stillbirth)
AwardsFull list

Following several box office failures, Reeves's performance in the horror film The Devil's Advocate (1997) was well received. Greater stardom came for playing Neo in the science fiction series The Matrix, beginning in 1999. He played John Constantine in Constantine (2005) and starred in the romantic drama The Lake House (2006), the science fiction thriller The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), and the crime thriller Street Kings (2008). Following another commercially down period, Reeves made a successful comeback by playing the titular assassin in the John Wick film series, beginning in 2014. Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022.[9]

In addition to acting, Reeves has directed the film Man of Tai Chi (2013). He has played bass guitar for the band Dogstar and pursued other endeavours such as writing and philanthropy.

Early life

Keanu Charles Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 2, 1964, the son of Patricia (née Taylor), a costume designer and performer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves Jr. His mother is English, originating from Essex.[10] His American father is from Hawaii, and is of Native Hawaiian, Chinese, English, Irish, and Portuguese descent.[5][11][12] His grandmother from his father's side is Chinese Hawaiian.[13] His mother was working in Beirut when she met his father,[14] who abandoned his wife and family when Reeves was three years old. Reeves last met his father on the Hawaiian island of Kauai when he was 13.[15]

After his parents divorced in 1966, his mother moved the family to Sydney,[15][16] and then to New York City, where she married Paul Aaron, a Broadway and Hollywood director, in 1970.[15] The couple moved to Toronto and divorced in 1971. When Reeves was nine, he took part in a theatre production of Damn Yankees.[17] Aaron remained close to Reeves, offering him advice and recommending him a job at the Hedgerow Theatre in Pennsylvania.[15] Reeves's mother married Robert Miller, a rock music promoter, in 1976; the couple divorced in 1980. She subsequently married her fourth husband, a hairdresser named Jack Bond; the marriage lasted until 1994. Reeves and his sisters grew up primarily in the Yorkville neighbourhood of Toronto, with a nanny caring for them frequently.[15][18] Because of his grandmother's ethnicity, he grew up with Chinese art, furniture, and cuisine.[19] Reeves watched British comedy shows such as The Two Ronnies, and his mother imparted English manners that he has maintained into adulthood.[20]

Describing himself as a "private kid",[21] Reeves attended four different high schools, including the Etobicoke School of the Arts, from which he was expelled. Reeves said he was expelled because he was "just a little too rambunctious and shot my mouth off once too often... I was not generally the most well-oiled machine in the school".[22] Reeves has dyslexia and has said, "Because I had trouble reading, I wasn’t a good student".[23] At De La Salle College, he was a successful ice hockey goalkeeper. Reeves had aspirations to become a professional ice hockey player for the Canadian Olympic team but decided to become an actor when he was 15.[24] After leaving De La Salle College, he attended Avondale Secondary Alternative School, which allowed him to get an education while working as an actor. He dropped out of high school when he was 17.[25] He obtained a green card through his American stepfather and moved to Los Angeles three years later.[15] Reeves holds only Canadian citizenship.[7][8]

Career

Main article: Keanu Reeves filmography

1984–1990: Early work

In 1984, Reeves was a correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) youth television program Going Great.[26] That same year, he made his acting debut in an episode of the television series, called Hangin' In.[27] In 1985, he played Mercutio in a stage production of Romeo and Juliet at the Leah Posluns Theatre in North York, Ontario.[28][29] He made further appearances on stage, including Brad Fraser's cult hit Wolfboy in Toronto. He also appeared in a Coca-Cola commercial in 1983,[30] and in the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) coming-of-age, short film One Step Away.[31]

Reeves made a foray into television films in 1986, including NBC's Babes in Toyland, Act of Vengeance and Brotherhood of Justice. He made his first motion picture appearances in Peter Markle's Youngblood (1986), in which he played a goalkeeper, and in the low-budget romantic drama, Flying. He was cast as Matt in River's Edge, a crime drama about a group of high school friends dealing with a murder case, loosely based on the 1981 murder of Marcy Renee Conrad. The film premiered in 1986 at the Toronto International Film Festival to a largely positive response. Janet Maslin of The New York Times describes the performances of the young cast as "natural and credible", with Reeves being described as "affecting and sympathetic".[32]

Towards the end of the 1980s, Reeves starred in several dramas aimed at teen audiences, including as the lead in The Night Before (1988), a comedy starring opposite Lori Loughlin, The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988) and Permanent Record (1988). Although the latter received mixed reviews, Variety magazine praised Reeves's performance, "which opens up nicely as the drama progresses".[33] His other acting efforts included a supporting role in Dangerous Liaisons (1988), which earned seven nominations at the 61st Academy Awards, winning three: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Production Design.[34] This was followed by Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), in which he portrays a slacker who travels through time with a friend (portrayed by Alex Winter), to assemble historical figures for a school presentation. The film was generally well received by critics and grossed $40.5 million at the worldwide box office.[35] Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 79% approval rating with the critical consensus: "Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are just charming, goofy, and silly enough to make this fluffy time-travel Adventure work".[36]

In 1989, Reeves starred in the comedy-drama Parenthood directed by Ron Howard. Nick Hilditch of the BBC gave the film three out of five stars, calling it a "feelgood movie" with an "extensive and entertaining ensemble cast".[37] In 1990, Reeves gave two acting performances; he portrayed an incompetent hitman in the black comedy I Love You to Death, and played Martin, a radio station employee in the comedy Tune in Tomorrow. He also appeared in Paula Abdul's music video for Rush Rush which featured a Rebel Without a Cause motif, with him in the James Dean role.[38]

1991–1994: Breakthrough with adult roles

In 1991, Reeves starred in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, a sequel to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, with his co-star Alex Winter. Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the sequel was "more imaginative, more opulent, wilder and freer, more excitingly visualized", praising the actors for their "fuller" performances.[39] Film critic Roger Ebert thought it was "a riot of visual invention and weird humour that works on its chosen sub-moronic level [...] It's the kind of movie where you start out snickering in spite of yourself, and end up actually admiring the originality that went into creating this hallucinatory slapstick".[40] The rest of 1991 marked a significant transition for Reeves's career as he undertook adult roles. Co-starring with River Phoenix as a street hustler in the adventure My Own Private Idaho, the characters embark on a journey of personal discovery. The story was written by Gus Van Sant, and is loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V. The film premiered at the 48th Venice International Film Festival,[41] followed by a theatrical release in the United States on September 29, 1991. The film earned $6.4 million at the box office.[42] My Own Private Idaho was positively received, with Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly describing the film as "a postmodern road movie with a mood of free-floating, trance-like despair [...] a rich, audacious experience".[43] The New York Times complimented Reeves and Phoenix for their insightful performances.[44]

Reeves starred alongside Patrick Swayze, Lori Petty and Gary Busey in the action thriller Point Break (1991), directed by Kathryn Bigelow. He plays an undercover FBI agent tasked with investigating the identities of a group of bank robbers. To prepare for the film, Reeves and his co-stars took surfing lessons with professional surfer Dennis Jarvis in Hawaii; Reeves had never surfed before.[45] Upon its release, Point Break was generally well-received, and a commercial success, earning $83.5 million at the box office.[46] Reeves's performance was praised by The New York Times for "considerable discipline and range", adding, "He moves easily between the buttoned-down demeanour that suits a police procedural story and the loose-jointed manner of his comic roles".[47] Writing for The Washington Post, Hal Hinson called Reeves the "perfect choice" and praised the surfing scenes, but opined that "the filmmakers have their characters make the most ludicrously illogical choices imaginable".[48] At the 1992 MTV Movie Awards, Reeves won the Most Desirable Male award.[49]

In 1991, Reeves developed an interest in a music career; he formed an alternative rock band called Dogstar, consisting of members Robert Mailhouse, Gregg Miller and Bret Domrose. Reeves played the bass guitar. A year later, he played Jonathan Harker in Francis Ford Coppola's Gothic horror Bram Stoker's Dracula, based on Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. Starring alongside Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins, the film was critically and commercially successful. It grossed $215.8 million worldwide.[50] For his role, Reeves was required to speak with an English accent, which drew some ridicule; "Overly posh and entirely ridiculous, Reeves's performance is as painful as it is hilarious", wrote Limara Salt of Virgin Media.[51] In a retrospective interview in 2015, director Coppola said, "[Reeves] tried so hard [...] He wanted to do it perfectly and in trying to do it perfectly it came off as stilted".[52] Bram Stoker's Dracula was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning three in Best Costume Design, Best Sound Editing and Best Makeup.[53] The film also received four nominations at the British Academy Film Awards.[54]

In 1993, he had a role in Much Ado About Nothing, based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. The film received positive reviews,[55] although Reeves was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor.[56] The New Republic magazine thought his casting was "unfortunate" because of his amateur performance.[57] In that same year, he starred in two more drama films, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Little Buddha, both of which garnered a mixed-to-negative reception.[58][59] The Independent critic gave Little Buddha a mixed review but opined that Reeves's part as a prince was "credible".[60] The film also left an impression on Reeves; he later said, "When I played this innocent prince who starts to suspect something when he has the first revelations about old age, sickness and death, it hit me. [...] That lesson has never left me."[61]

He starred in the action thriller Speed (1994) alongside Sandra Bullock and Dennis Hopper. He plays police officer Jack Traven, who must prevent a bus from exploding by keeping its speed above 50 mph. Speed was the directorial debut of Dutch director Jan de Bont. Several actors were considered for the lead role, but Reeves was chosen because Bont was impressed with his Point Break performance.[62] To look the part, Reeves shaved all his hair off and spent two months in the gym to gain muscle mass. During production, Reeves's friend River Phoenix (and co-star in My Own Private Idaho) died, resulting in adjustments to the filming schedule to allow him to mourn.[62] Speed was released on June 10 to a critically acclaimed response. Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune lauded Reeves, calling him "absolutely charismatic [...] giving a performance juiced with joy as he jumps through elevator shafts [...] and atop a subway train".[63] David Ansen, writing for Newsweek, summarized Speed as, "Relentless without being overbearing, this is one likely blockbuster that doesn't feel too big for its britches. It's a friendly juggernaut".[64] The film grossed $350 million from a $30 million budget and won two Academy Awards in 1995 – Best Sound Editing and Best Sound.[65][66]

1995–1998: Continued acting efforts

I do love it [Shakespeare]. It's like this kind of code that once you start to inhabit it with breath and sound and feeling and thought, it is the most powerful and consuming and freeing at the same time. Just, literally, elemental in sound, consonants and vowels. What I found out in doing it [Hamlet] was that it brought up for me all the anger that was inside me for my mother. I mean, it surprised me, just what was there, and I hadn't seen that before.

—Reeves on his Hamlet performance[67]

Reeves's next leading role came in the 1995 cyberpunk action thriller Johnny Mnemonic, directed by artist Robert Longo and based on the 1981 story of the same name by William Gibson. Set in 2021, it is about a man who has a cybernetic brain implant and must deliver a data package before he dies or is killed by the Yakuza. The film received mainly negative reviews and critics felt Reeves was "woefully miscast".[68] Roger Ebert opined that the film is one of the "great goofy gestures of recent cinema, a movie that doesn't deserve one nanosecond of serious analysis but has a kind of idiotic grandeur that makes you almost forgive it."[69] As part of the film studio's marketing efforts, a CD-ROM video game was also released.[70]

He next appeared in the romantic drama A Walk in the Clouds (1995), which also garnered mixed-to-negative reviews.[71] Reeves plays a young soldier returning home from World War II, trying to settle down with a woman he married impulsively just before he enlisted. Film critic Mick LaSalle opined that "A Walk in the Clouds is for the most part a beautiful, well-acted and emotionally rich picture", whereas Hal Hinson from The Washington Post said, "The film has the syrupy, Kodak magic-moment look of a Bo Derek movie, and pretty much the same level of substance".[72][73]

Besides film work, Reeves retreated briefly to the theatre playing Prince Hamlet in a 1995 Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Hamlet in Winnipeg, Manitoba.[74] The Sunday Times critic Roger Lewis believed his performance, writing he "quite embodied the innocence, the splendid fury, the animal grace of the leaps and bounds, the emotional violence, that form the Prince of Denmark ... He is one of the top three Hamlets I have seen, for a simple reason: he is Hamlet".[75]

Reeves was soon drawn to science fiction roles, appearing in Chain Reaction (1996) with co-stars Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz, Fred Ward, Kevin Dunn and Brian Cox. He plays a researcher of a green energy project, who has to go on the run when he is framed for murder. Chain Reaction was not a critical success and gained mostly a negative reaction; review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave it a rating of 16% and described it as "a man-on-the-run thriller that mostly sticks to generic formula".[76] Reeves's film choices after Chain Reaction were also critical disappointments. He starred in the independent crime comedy Feeling Minnesota (1996), with Vincent D'Onofrio and Cameron Diaz, which was described as "shoddily assembled, and fundamentally miscast" by Rotten Tomatoes.[77] In that year, he turned down an offer to star in Speed 2: Cruise Control, despite being offered a salary of $12 million.[78] According to Reeves, this decision caused 20th Century Fox to sever ties with him for a decade.[79]

Instead, Reeves toured with his band Dogstar, and appeared in the drama The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997), based on a 1950 letter written by Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac. Reeves's performance gained mixed reviews; Paul Tatara of CNN called him "void of talent [...] here he is again, reciting his lines as if they're non-related words strung together as a memory exercise",[80] whereas Empire magazine thought "Reeves gives the nearest thing to a performance in his career as the enthusiastic feckless drunk".[81] He starred in the 1997 supernatural horror The Devil's Advocate alongside Al Pacino and Charlize Theron; Reeves agreed to a pay cut of several million dollars so that the film studio could afford to hire Pacino.[82] Based on Andrew Neiderman's novel of the same name, the feature is about a successful young lawyer invited to New York City to work for a major firm, who discovers the owner of the firm is a devil. The Devil's Advocate attracted positive reviews from critics.[83] Film critic James Berardinelli called the film "highly enjoyable" and wrote, "There are times when Reeves lacks the subtlety that would have made this a more multi-layered portrayal, but it's nevertheless a solid job".[84]

1999–2004: Stardom with The Matrix franchise and comedies

 
Reeves promoting The Day the Earth Stood Still in Mexico, 2008

In 1999, Reeves starred in the critically acclaimed science fiction film The Matrix, the first installment in what would become The Matrix franchise.[85] Reeves portrays computer programmer Thomas Anderson, a hacker using the alias "Neo", who discovers humanity is trapped inside a simulated reality created by intelligent machines. Written and directed by the Wachowskis, Reeves had to prepare by reading Kevin Kelly's Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World, and Dylan Evans's ideas on evolutionary psychology. The principal cast underwent months of intense training with martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping to prepare for the fight scenes.[86] The Matrix proved to be a box office success; several critics considered it to be one of the best science fiction films of all time.[87][88] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times felt it was a "wildly cinematic futuristic thriller that is determined to overpower the imagination", despite perceiving weaknesses in the film's dialogue.[89] Janet Maslin of The New York Times credited Reeves for being a "strikingly chic Prada model of an action hero", and thought the martial arts stunts were the film's strongest feature.[90] The Matrix received Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Visual Effects, and Best Sound.[91]

After the success of The Matrix, Reeves avoided another blockbuster in favour of a lighthearted sports comedy, The Replacements (2000). He agreed to a pay cut to enable Gene Hackman to co-star in the film.[82] Against his wishes, Reeves starred in the thriller The Watcher (2000), playing a serial killer who stalks a retired FBI agent. He said that a friend forged his signature on a contract, which he could not prove; he appeared in the film to avoid legal action.[92] Upon its release, the film was critically panned.[93] That year, he had a supporting role in another thriller, Sam Raimi's The Gift, a story about a woman (played by Cate Blanchett) with extrasensory perception asked to help find a young woman who disappeared. The film grossed $44 million worldwide.[94] Film critic Paul Clinton of CNN thought the film was fairly compelling, saying of Reeves's acting: "[Raimi] managed to get a performance out of Reeves that only occasionally sounds like he's reading his lines from the back of a cereal box."[95]

In 2001, Reeves continued to explore and accept roles in a diverse range of genres. The first was a romantic drama, Sweet November, a remake of the 1968 film of the same name. This was his second collaboration with Charlize Theron; the film was met with a generally negative reception.[96] Desson Thompson of The Washington Post criticized it for its "syrupy cliches, greeting-card wisdom and over-the-top tragicomedy", but commended Reeves for his likability factor in every performance he gives.[97] Hardball (2001) marked Reeves's attempt in another sports comedy. Directed by Brian Robbins, it is based on the book Hardball: A Season in the Projects by Daniel Coyle. Reeves plays Conor O'Neill, a troubled young man who agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of obtaining a loan. Film critic Roger Ebert noted the film's desire to tackle difficult subjects and baseball coaching, but felt it lacked depth, and Reeves's performance was "glum and distant".[98]

By 2002, his professional music career had come to an end when Dogstar disbanded. The band had released two albums during their decade together; Our Little Visionary in 1996 and Happy Ending in 2000.[99] Sometime afterwards, Reeves performed in the band Becky for a year, founded by Dogstar band-mate Rob Mailhouse, but quit in 2005, citing a lack of interest in a serious music career.[100][101] After being absent from the screen in 2002, Reeves returned to The Matrix sequels in 2003 with The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, released in May and November, respectively. Principal photography for both films was completed back-to-back, primarily at Fox Studios in Australia.[102] The Matrix Reloaded garnered mostly favourable reviews; John Powers of LA Weekly praised the "dazzling pyrotechnics" but was critical of certain machine-like action scenes. Of Reeves's acting, Powers thought it was somewhat "wooden" but felt he has the ability to "exude a charmed aura".[103] Andrew Walker, writing for the Evening Standard, praised the cinematography ("visually it gives full value as a virtuoso workout for your senses") but he was less taken by the film's "dime-store philosophy".[104] The film grossed $739 million worldwide.[105]

The Matrix Revolutions, the third instalment, was met with mixed reception. According to review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the consensus was that "characters and ideas take a back seat to the special effects".[106] Paul Clinton, writing for CNN, praised the special effects but felt Reeves's character was unfocused.[107] In contrast, the San Francisco Chronicle's Carla Meyer was highly critical of the special effects, writing, "[The Wachowskis] computer-generated imagery goes from dazzling to deadening in action scenes that favor heavy, clanking weaponry over the martial-arts moves that thrilled viewers of The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded."[108] Nevertheless, the film grossed a healthy $427 million worldwide, although less than the two previous films.[109] Something's Gotta Give, a romantic comedy, was Reeves's last release of 2003. He co-starred with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and played Dr. Julian Mercer in the film. Something's Gotta Give received generally favourable reviews.[110]

2005–2013: Thrillers, documentaries and directorial debut

 
Reeves at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009

In 2005, Reeves played the titular role in Constantine, an occult detective film, about a man who has the ability to perceive and communicate with half-angels and half-demons. The film was a respectable box office hit, grossing $230 million worldwide from a $100 million budget but attracted mixed-to-positive reviews.[111] The Sydney Morning Herald's critic wrote that "Constantine isn't bad, but it doesn't deserve any imposing adjectives. It's occasionally cheesy, sometimes enjoyable, intermittently scary, and constantly spiked with celestial blatherskite".[112] He next appeared in Thumbsucker, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005.[113] A comedy adapted from the 1999 Walter Kirn novel of the same name, the story follows a boy with a thumb-sucking problem. Reeves and the cast garnered positive critical reviews, with The Washington Post describing it as "a gently stirring symphony about emotional transition filled with lovely musical passages and softly nuanced performances".[114]

Reeves appeared in the Richard Linklater-directed animated science fiction thriller A Scanner Darkly, which premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[115] Reeves played Bob Arctor/Fred, an undercover agent in a futuristic dystopia under high-tech police surveillance. Based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick, the film was a box office failure.[116] However, the film attracted generally favourable reviews; Paul Arendt of the BBC thought the film was "beautiful to watch", but Reeves was outshone by his co-star Robert Downey Jr.[117][118] His next role was Alex Wyler in The Lake House (2006), a romantic drama adaptation of the South Korean film Il Mare (2000), which reunited him with Sandra Bullock. Despite its box office success,[119] Mark Kermode of The Guardian was highly critical, writing "this syrup-drenched supernatural whimsy achieves stupidity at a genuinely international level [...] The last time Bullock and Reeves were together on screen the result was Speed. This should have been entitled Stop".[120] Towards the end of 2006, he co-narrated The Great Warming with Alanis Morissette, a documentary about climate change mitigation.[121]

Next in 2008, Reeves collaborated with director David Ayer on the crime thriller Street Kings. He played an undercover policeman who must clear his name after the death of another officer. Released on April 11, the film grossed a moderate $66 million worldwide.[122] The film's plot and Reeves' performance, however, were met with mostly unenthusiastic reviews. Paul Byrnes of The Sydney Morning Herald stated, "It's full of twists and turns, a dead body in every reel, but it's not difficult to work out who's betraying whom, and that's just not good enough".[123] The Guardian opined that "Reeves is fundamentally blank and uninteresting".[124] Reeves starred in another science fiction film, The Day the Earth Stood Still, a loose adaptation of the 1951 film of the same name. He portrayed Klaatu, an alien sent from outer space to try to change human behaviour or eradicate humans because of their environmental impact. At the 2009 Razzie Awards, the film was nominated for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel.[125] Many critics were unimpressed with the heavy use of special effects; The Telegraph credited Reeves' ability to engage the audience, but thought the cinematography was abysmal and the "sub-Al-Gore environment lecture leaves you light-headed with tedium".[126][127]

 
Tiger Chen and Reeves at the Fantastic Fest film festival, 2013

Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee was Reeves' sole release of 2009, which premiered at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival.[128] The romantic comedy and its ensemble received an amicable review from The Telegraph's David Gritten; "Miller's film is a triumph. Uniformly well acted, it boasts a psychologically knowing script, clearly written by a smart, assertive human".[129] In 2010, he starred in another romantic comedy, Henry's Crime, about a man who is released from prison for a crime he did not commit, but then targets the same bank with his former cellmate. The film was not a box office hit.[130] Reeves' only work in 2011 was an adult picture book titled Ode to Happiness, which he wrote, complemented by Alexandra Grant's illustrations.[131][132] Reeves co-produced and appeared in a 2012 documentary, Side by Side. He interviewed filmmakers including James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, and Christopher Nolan; the feature investigated digital and photochemical film creation.[133] Next, Reeves starred in Generation Um... (2012), an independent drama which was critically panned.[134]

In 2013, Reeves starred in his own directorial debut, the martial arts film Man of Tai Chi. The film has multilingual dialogue and follows a young man drawn to an underground fight club, partially inspired by the life of Reeves' friend Tiger Chen. Principal photography took place in China and in Hong Kong. Reeves was also assisted by Yuen Woo-ping, the fight choreographer of The Matrix films.[135] Man of Tai Chi premiered at the Beijing Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival,[136][137] and received praise from director John Woo.[138] A wider, warm response followed suit; Bilge Ebiri of Vulture thought the fight sequences were "beautifully assembled", and Reeves showed restraint with the film editing to present the fighters' motion sequences.[139] The Los Angeles Times wrote, "The brutally efficient shooting style Reeves employs to film master choreographer Yuen Woo-ping's breathtaking fights [...] is refreshingly grounded and old-school kinetic",[140] while Dave McGinn of The Globe and Mail called the film "ambitious but generic".[141] At the box office, Man of Tai Chi was a commercial disappointment, grossing only $5.5 million worldwide from a budget of $25 million.[142][143] Also in 2013, Reeves played Kai in the 3D fantasy 47 Ronin, a Japanese fable about a group of rogue samurai. The film premiered in Japan but failed to gain traction with audiences; reviews were not positive, causing Universal Pictures to reduce advertising for the film elsewhere. 47 Ronin was a box office flop and was mostly poorly received.[144]

2014–present: Resurgence with John Wick

 
Reeves in 2015

After this series of commercial failures, Reeves' career rebounded in 2014. He played the titular role in the action thriller John Wick, directed by Chad Stahelski. In the first instalment of the John Wick franchise, Reeves plays a retired hitman seeking vengeance. He worked closely with the screenwriter to develop the story; "We all agreed on the potential of the project. I love the role, but you want the whole story, the whole ensemble to come to life", Reeves said.[145] Filmed on location in the New York City area, the film was eventually released on October 24 in the United States.[146] The Hollywood Reporter was impressed by the director's "confident, muscular action debut", and Reeves' "effortless" performance, which marked his return to the action genre.[147] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times praised Reeves' fight scenes and wrote he is "always more comfortable in roles that demand cool over hot, attitude over emotion".[148] John Wick proved to be a box office success, grossing $86 million worldwide.[149] Next, Reeves starred in a smaller-scale horror feature, Knock Knock (2015), a remake of the 1977 film Death Game. Described as "over-the-top destruction" by the Toronto Star, Reeves plays a father, home alone, when two young women show up and start a game of cat and mouse.[150] His other releases in 2015 were the documentaries Deep Web, about crime on the dark web, and Mifune: The Last Samurai, about the life of a Japanese actor (Toshiro Mifune) famous for playing samurai characters. He narrated both films.[151][152]

Reeves appeared in five film releases in 2016. The first was Exposed, a crime thriller about a detective who investigates his partner's death and discovers police corruption along the way. The film received negative reviews for its confused plot, and Reeves was criticized for displaying limited facial expressions.[153][154] His next release, the comedy Keanu, was better received.[155] In it he voiced the eponymous kitten. Reeves then had a minor role in The Neon Demon, a psychological horror directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. He played Hank, a lustful motel owner who appears in Jesse's (played by Elle Fanning) nightmare.[156] In his fourth release, he played a charismatic leader of a settlement in The Bad Batch.[157] His final release of the year was The Whole Truth, featuring Gabriel Basso, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Renée Zellweger, and Jim Belushi. He played Richard, a defence attorney. Noel Murray of The A.V. Club described it as "moderately clever, reasonably entertaining courtroom drama", with a skilled cast but overall a "mundane" film.[158] Reeves also appeared in Swedish Dicks, a two-season web television series.[159]

In 2017, Reeves agreed to reprise his role for a sequel in the John Wick franchise, John Wick: Chapter 2. The story carries on from the first film and follows John Wick as he goes on the run when a bounty is placed on him. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $171.5 million worldwide, more than its predecessor.[160] Chris Hewitt of Empire magazine praised Reeves' performance, which complemented his previous action roles (Point Break and Speed).[161] However, Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times described the picture as "a down-and-dirty B-picture with a lustrous A-picture soul".[162] Besides to this large-scale feature, Reeves starred in a drama, To the Bone, in which he plays a doctor helping a young woman with anorexia. It premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, followed by distribution on Netflix in July.[163][164] Early reviews were positive, with praise for its non-glamorized portrayal of anorexia, although the New Statesman magazine thought it was irresponsible.[165] That year, Reeves also made cameo appearances in the films A Happening of Monumental Proportions and SPF-18.[166][167]

 
Guillermo Amoedo and Reeves on the set of Knock Knock, in 2014

Reeves reunited with Winona Ryder in the 2018 comedy Destination Wedding, about wedding guests who develop a mutual affection for each other. They had worked together previously in Bram Stoker's Dracula, A Scanner Darkly and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. Reeves also co-produced and starred in two thrillers. Siberia, in which he plays a diamond trader who travels to Siberia to search for his Russian partner, and Replicas, which tells the story of a neuroscientist who violates laws and bioethics to bring his family back to life after they die in a car crash. Siberia was critically panned; reviewers thought the plot was nonsensical and Reeves had little chemistry with co-star Ana Ularu.[168][169] Replicas did not fare well with critics either; The A.V. Club praised Reeves' performance, but gave the film a grade D−, adding it is "garbage".[170] It was also a box office failure, earning $9.3 million from a budget of $30 million.[170][171]

Returning to the John Wick franchise, Reeves starred in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019), the third feature in the series directed by Stahelski. The film takes place immediately after the events of John Wick: Chapter 2 and features new cast members including Halle Berry. The film was another box office hit, grossing $171 million in the United States and more than $155 million internationally.[172] The Globe and Mail's reviewer gave the film three out of four stars, praising the fight scenes, but felt there was "aesthetic overindulgence" with the cinematography.[173] The Guardian's Cath Clarke questioned Reeves' acting; she wrote that "he keeps his face statue-still [...] three movies in, franchise bloat is beginning to set in".[174] Reeves was nominated for Favorite Male Movie Star of 2019 in the People's Choice Awards, and the film itself was nominated for Best Contemporary Film in the Art Directors Guild Awards.[175][176] Reeves then voiced Duke Caboom in 2019's Toy Story 4, the fourth instalment of Pixar's Toy Story franchise.[177] In that same year on April 27 and 28, a film festival was held in his honour, called KeanuCon, hosted in Glasgow, Scotland.[178] Over two days, nine of his films were screened for guests.[179]

As early as 2008, Reeves and Alex Winter had shown enthusiasm for a third Bill & Ted film, but the project went into development limbo.[180] Finally in 2020, Bill & Ted Face the Music, the third film in the franchise was released.[181][182] The critic from Salon magazine was disappointed in Reeves' performance, but praised the film for its message that "music has the power to unite the world".[183] Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a grade B, and complimented the onscreen chemistry between Reeves and Winter.[184] He also appeared in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run as a tumbleweed named Sage.[185] Reeves appears as Johnny Silverhand in the video game Cyberpunk 2077.[186][187] In December 2021, Reeves returned to the screen for the fourth film in The Matrix franchise: The Matrix Resurrections. Carrie-Anne Moss also reprised her role as Trinity.[188][189] The Matrix Resurrections was a box office disappointment;[190] one critic praised Reeves' and Moss' performances, but thought the film was "no game-changer".[191]

Lionsgate's John Wick: Chapter 4 premiered on March 24, 2023; Reeves reprised his role as the title character.[192]

Upcoming projects

In 2019, Reeves travelled to São Paulo to produce a Netflix series, Conquest. Details are being kept secret.[193][194] A comic book series, BRZRKR, co-written by Reeves was published in March 2021. He is expected to star in a film adaptation of it.[195] A fifth sequel to John Wick was planned,[196][197] but Stahelski said he would like to give the franchise a "rest" for the time being.[198] Reeves will reprise his role as Johnny Silverhand in the Cyberpunk 2077 expansion, Phantom Liberty.[199]

Personal life

In 1998, Reeves met director David Lynch's assistant Jennifer Syme at a party thrown for his band Dogstar, and they started dating.[200] On December 24, 1999, Syme gave birth eight months into her pregnancy to the couple's child, who was stillborn. The couple broke up several weeks afterward, but later reconciled.[201] On April 2, 2001, Syme was killed when her vehicle collided with three parked cars on Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles. Syme was impaired, and also not belted in.[202][203] Reeves told investigators that they were back together,[201] and had brunch together in San Francisco the day before the accident.[202] Reeves acted as a pallbearer for Syme,[202] who was buried next to their daughter.[204] He was scheduled to film the sequels to The Matrix the following spring, but sought "peace and time", according to friend Bret Domrose of Dogstar.[202]

Reeves has also been romantically linked to longtime friend and filmmaker Brenda Davis, whose child he is godfather to,[205][206][207] and model-actress China Chow.[208][209] In 2009, Reeves met Alexandra Grant at a dinner party; they went on to collaborate on two books together.[210][211] They went public with their relationship in November 2019.[3][1][212]

Reeves is discreet about his spiritual beliefs, saying that it is something "personal and private".[213] When asked if he was a spiritual person, he said that he believes "in God, faith, inner faith, the self, passion, and things", and that he is "very spiritual" and "supremely bountiful".[214] Although he does not formally practice Buddhism, the religion has left a strong impression on him, especially after filming Little Buddha.[61] He said, "Most of the things I've come away with from Buddhism have been human—understanding feelings, impermanence, and trying to understand other people and where they're coming from."[61]

When asked on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2019 about his views on what happens after death, Reeves replied, "I know that the ones who love us will miss us".[215]

In 2023, the lipopeptide Keanumycin, a substance deadly to fungi, was named in honor of Reeves.[216]

Business and philanthropy

 
Mural of Reeves in Santiago de Chile

Reeves supports several charities and causes. In response to his sister's battle with leukemia, he founded a private cancer foundation, which aids children's hospitals and provides cancer research.[217][218] In June 2020, he volunteered for Camp Rainbow Gold, an Idaho children's cancer charity.[219] Reeves has said, "Money is the last thing I think about. I could live on what I have already made for the next few centuries".[220] It was rumoured that Reeves gave away a substantial portion, estimated to be $35–$125 million, of his earnings from The Matrix to the special effects and makeup crews. However, this has been significantly embellished; Reeves negotiated a smaller deal, relinquishing his contractual right to a percentage of the sequels' profits in exchange for a more extensive special effects budget.[221][222]

After filming John Wick: Chapter 4, Reeves, Chad Stahelski and Brazilian jiu-jitsu instructor Dave Camarillo, signed an exclusive training uniform that was put up for auction in March 2023 to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.[223]

Reeves co-founded a production company, Company Films, with friend Stephen Hamel.[224] An avid motorcyclist, Reeves co-founded Arch Motorcycle Company, which builds and sells custom motorcycles.[225][226] In 2017, Reeves, Jessica Fleischmann, and Alexandra Grant founded book publisher, X Artists' Books (also known as XAB).[227][210] He has written two books: Ode to Happiness and Shadows, both of which are collaborations with Grant; he provided the text to her photographs and art.[228]

Censorship

In 2022, Reeves recitation of the Beat poem "Pull My Daisy" for a virtual benefit concert for Tibet House US, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, angered Chinese nationalists.[229][230][231] Reeves's films have been banned from streaming platforms in China such as iQiyi, Tencent Video and Youku.[232][233]

In the media

 
Reeves' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

In a 2005 article for Time magazine, Lev Grossman called Reeves "Hollywood's ultimate introvert".[234] He has been described as a workaholic, charming and "excruciatingly shy". During the production of Constantine, director Francis Lawrence commented on his personality, calling him "hardworking" and "generous". His co-star Shia LaBeouf said, "I've worked with him for a year and a couple of months, but I don't really know him that much".[234] Erwin Stoff of 3 Arts Entertainment has served as Reeves's agent and manager since he was 16, and produced many of his films. Stoff said Reeves "is a really private person" and keeps his distance from other people.[234][235]

In 2010, an image of Reeves became an internet meme after photographs of him were published, sitting on a park bench with a sad facial expression. The images were posted on the 4chan discussion board and were soon distributed via several blogs and media outlets, leading to the "Sad Keanu" meme being spread on the internet. An unofficial holiday was created when a Facebook fan page declared June 15 as "Cheer-up Keanu Day".[211][236] He would later downplay the photo, saying, "Man, I was eating a sandwich. I was thinking—I had some stuff going on. I was hungry."[237]

Reeves's casual persona and ability to establish rapport have been observed by the public, leading him to be dubbed the "Internet's boyfriend".[238][239][240] In 2019, Vox cited Reeves's unorthodox filmography and ability to appeal to nerd culture as the primary reasons for his internet popularity.[241] While filming Bill & Ted Face the Music in July 2019, Reeves and other cast members came across a house with a banner reading "You're Breathtaking" and "Mini Keanu", two memes that had come out of Reeves's appearance at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2019 for the game Cyberpunk 2077. Reeves took time to sign the banner, and talk to the family.[242]

Reeves appeared on Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 list in 2001 and 2002, at number 36 and 49, respectively.[243][244] In 2005, Reeves received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture industry.[245] In 2016, The Hollywood Reporter calculated that Reeves had earned $250 million for The Matrix franchise, making him one of the highest-paid actors.[246] In 2020, The New York Times ranked him at number four on its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.[247]

Filmography and awards

Main articles: Keanu Reeves filmography and awards and nominations

Prolific in film since 1985, Reeves's most acclaimed and highest-grossing films, according to the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, include: River's Edge (1987), Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), My Own Private Idaho (1991), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Speed (1994), The Matrix (1999), John Wick (2014), John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019), and Toy Story 4 (2019).[248] Reeves has won four MTV Movie Awards,[49][249][250] and received two Best Actor nominations at the Saturn Awards.[251] He was nominated twice for a People's Choice Award: Favorite Male Movie Star and Favorite Action Movie Star, for his performance in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019).[252]

In September 2021, Tae Kwon Do Life Magazine deemed Reeves the "#1 Martial Arts movie star in the world" based upon his multiple films in the genre, their popularity, and sheer box office gross.[253]

Bibliography

  • Reeves, Keanu (text by); Grant, Alexandra (drawings by, book design by) (2011). Bergam, Janey (ed.). Ode to Happiness. Göttingen: Steidl Publishers. ISBN 9783869302096. OCLC 756797130.
  • Reeves, Keanu (text by); Grant, Alexandra (photographs by) (2014). Shadows: A Collaborative Project by Alexandra Grant and Keanu Reeves. Göttingen: Steidl Publishers. ISBN 9783869308272. OCLC 965117169.
  • BRZRKR (with Matt Kindt and Ron Garney, 12-issue mini-series, Boom! Studios, 2021, ISBN 9781684156856)

Notes

  1. ^ Although Reeves and Grant have had a business relationship publishing books that began shortly after they met in 2009, they only went public with their personal relationship in November 2019.[1] Meg Tilly, Grant's friend, stated in July 2020 that "I remember a couple of years ago, about a year and a half ago, [Grant] said, 'Keanu Reeves is my boyfriend,'" and "[Grant] had gone to a lot of events with him [in the past]. It’s just suddenly surfaced that he’s been dating her for several years."[2] Therefore the earliest that one could reasonably surmise that the personal relationship began is 2018.[3]
  2. ^ Although he was born in Lebanon to an English mother and American father, Reeves grew up in Canada, identifies as Canadian, and holds only Canadian citizenship.[7][8]

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  • . CNN. November 5, 2003. Archived from the original on April 30, 2008. Retrieved October 8, 2014.
  • . Seven magazine. Archived from the original on January 8, 2011. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
  • DeAngelis, Michael (2001). Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom: James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-2728-7.
  • Ong, Soh Chin (May 15, 2003). "A Man of Many Faces". The Straits Times. Singapore.

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Keanu redirects here For other uses see Keanu disambiguation For the song see Keanu Reeves song Not to be confused with Keanna Reeves Keanu Charles Reeves k i ˈ ɑː n uː kee AH noo 4 5 6 born September 2 1964 is a Canadian b actor Born in Beirut and raised in Toronto Reeves began acting in theatre productions and in television films before making his feature film debut in Youngblood 1986 He had his breakthrough role in the science fiction comedy Bill amp Ted s Excellent Adventure 1989 and he reprised his role in its sequels He gained praise for playing a hustler in the independent drama My Own Private Idaho 1991 and established himself as an action hero with leading roles in Point Break 1991 and Speed 1994 Keanu ReevesReeves in 2019BornKeanu Charles Reeves 1964 09 02 September 2 1964 age 58 Beirut LebanonNationalityCanadianOccupationsActormusicianYears active1984 presentWorksFull listPartner s Jennifer Syme 1998 2001 her death Alexandra Grant c 2018 present a Children1 stillbirth AwardsFull listFollowing several box office failures Reeves s performance in the horror film The Devil s Advocate 1997 was well received Greater stardom came for playing Neo in the science fiction series The Matrix beginning in 1999 He played John Constantine in Constantine 2005 and starred in the romantic drama The Lake House 2006 the science fiction thriller The Day the Earth Stood Still 2008 and the crime thriller Street Kings 2008 Following another commercially down period Reeves made a successful comeback by playing the titular assassin in the John Wick film series beginning in 2014 Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022 9 In addition to acting Reeves has directed the film Man of Tai Chi 2013 He has played bass guitar for the band Dogstar and pursued other endeavours such as writing and philanthropy Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 1984 1990 Early work 2 2 1991 1994 Breakthrough with adult roles 2 3 1995 1998 Continued acting efforts 2 4 1999 2004 Stardom with The Matrix franchise and comedies 2 5 2005 2013 Thrillers documentaries and directorial debut 2 6 2014 present Resurgence with John Wick 2 6 1 Upcoming projects 3 Personal life 4 Business and philanthropy 5 Censorship 6 In the media 7 Filmography and awards 8 Bibliography 9 Notes 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External linksEarly lifeKeanu Charles Reeves was born in Beirut Lebanon on September 2 1964 the son of Patricia nee Taylor a costume designer and performer and Samuel Nowlin Reeves Jr His mother is English originating from Essex 10 His American father is from Hawaii and is of Native Hawaiian Chinese English Irish and Portuguese descent 5 11 12 His grandmother from his father s side is Chinese Hawaiian 13 His mother was working in Beirut when she met his father 14 who abandoned his wife and family when Reeves was three years old Reeves last met his father on the Hawaiian island of Kauai when he was 13 15 After his parents divorced in 1966 his mother moved the family to Sydney 15 16 and then to New York City where she married Paul Aaron a Broadway and Hollywood director in 1970 15 The couple moved to Toronto and divorced in 1971 When Reeves was nine he took part in a theatre production of Damn Yankees 17 Aaron remained close to Reeves offering him advice and recommending him a job at the Hedgerow Theatre in Pennsylvania 15 Reeves s mother married Robert Miller a rock music promoter in 1976 the couple divorced in 1980 She subsequently married her fourth husband a hairdresser named Jack Bond the marriage lasted until 1994 Reeves and his sisters grew up primarily in the Yorkville neighbourhood of Toronto with a nanny caring for them frequently 15 18 Because of his grandmother s ethnicity he grew up with Chinese art furniture and cuisine 19 Reeves watched British comedy shows such as The Two Ronnies and his mother imparted English manners that he has maintained into adulthood 20 Describing himself as a private kid 21 Reeves attended four different high schools including the Etobicoke School of the Arts from which he was expelled Reeves said he was expelled because he was just a little too rambunctious and shot my mouth off once too often I was not generally the most well oiled machine in the school 22 Reeves has dyslexia and has said Because I had trouble reading I wasn t a good student 23 At De La Salle College he was a successful ice hockey goalkeeper Reeves had aspirations to become a professional ice hockey player for the Canadian Olympic team but decided to become an actor when he was 15 24 After leaving De La Salle College he attended Avondale Secondary Alternative School which allowed him to get an education while working as an actor He dropped out of high school when he was 17 25 He obtained a green card through his American stepfather and moved to Los Angeles three years later 15 Reeves holds only Canadian citizenship 7 8 CareerMain article Keanu Reeves filmography 1984 1990 Early work In 1984 Reeves was a correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC youth television program Going Great 26 That same year he made his acting debut in an episode of the television series called Hangin In 27 In 1985 he played Mercutio in a stage production of Romeo and Juliet at the Leah Posluns Theatre in North York Ontario 28 29 He made further appearances on stage including Brad Fraser s cult hit Wolfboy in Toronto He also appeared in a Coca Cola commercial in 1983 30 and in the National Film Board of Canada NFB coming of age short film One Step Away 31 Reeves made a foray into television films in 1986 including NBC s Babes in Toyland Act of Vengeance and Brotherhood of Justice He made his first motion picture appearances in Peter Markle s Youngblood 1986 in which he played a goalkeeper and in the low budget romantic drama Flying He was cast as Matt in River s Edge a crime drama about a group of high school friends dealing with a murder case loosely based on the 1981 murder of Marcy Renee Conrad The film premiered in 1986 at the Toronto International Film Festival to a largely positive response Janet Maslin of The New York Times describes the performances of the young cast as natural and credible with Reeves being described as affecting and sympathetic 32 Towards the end of the 1980s Reeves starred in several dramas aimed at teen audiences including as the lead in The Night Before 1988 a comedy starring opposite Lori Loughlin The Prince of Pennsylvania 1988 and Permanent Record 1988 Although the latter received mixed reviews Variety magazine praised Reeves s performance which opens up nicely as the drama progresses 33 His other acting efforts included a supporting role in Dangerous Liaisons 1988 which earned seven nominations at the 61st Academy Awards winning three Best Adapted Screenplay Best Costume Design and Best Production Design 34 This was followed by Bill amp Ted s Excellent Adventure 1989 in which he portrays a slacker who travels through time with a friend portrayed by Alex Winter to assemble historical figures for a school presentation The film was generally well received by critics and grossed 40 5 million at the worldwide box office 35 Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 79 approval rating with the critical consensus Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are just charming goofy and silly enough to make this fluffy time travel Adventure work 36 In 1989 Reeves starred in the comedy drama Parenthood directed by Ron Howard Nick Hilditch of the BBC gave the film three out of five stars calling it a feelgood movie with an extensive and entertaining ensemble cast 37 In 1990 Reeves gave two acting performances he portrayed an incompetent hitman in the black comedy I Love You to Death and played Martin a radio station employee in the comedy Tune in Tomorrow He also appeared in Paula Abdul s music video for Rush Rush which featured a Rebel Without a Cause motif with him in the James Dean role 38 1991 1994 Breakthrough with adult roles In 1991 Reeves starred in Bill amp Ted s Bogus Journey a sequel to Bill amp Ted s Excellent Adventure with his co star Alex Winter Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the sequel was more imaginative more opulent wilder and freer more excitingly visualized praising the actors for their fuller performances 39 Film critic Roger Ebert thought it was a riot of visual invention and weird humour that works on its chosen sub moronic level It s the kind of movie where you start out snickering in spite of yourself and end up actually admiring the originality that went into creating this hallucinatory slapstick 40 The rest of 1991 marked a significant transition for Reeves s career as he undertook adult roles Co starring with River Phoenix as a street hustler in the adventure My Own Private Idaho the characters embark on a journey of personal discovery The story was written by Gus Van Sant and is loosely based on Shakespeare s Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V The film premiered at the 48th Venice International Film Festival 41 followed by a theatrical release in the United States on September 29 1991 The film earned 6 4 million at the box office 42 My Own Private Idaho was positively received with Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly describing the film as a postmodern road movie with a mood of free floating trance like despair a rich audacious experience 43 The New York Times complimented Reeves and Phoenix for their insightful performances 44 Reeves starred alongside Patrick Swayze Lori Petty and Gary Busey in the action thriller Point Break 1991 directed by Kathryn Bigelow He plays an undercover FBI agent tasked with investigating the identities of a group of bank robbers To prepare for the film Reeves and his co stars took surfing lessons with professional surfer Dennis Jarvis in Hawaii Reeves had never surfed before 45 Upon its release Point Break was generally well received and a commercial success earning 83 5 million at the box office 46 Reeves s performance was praised by The New York Times for considerable discipline and range adding He moves easily between the buttoned down demeanour that suits a police procedural story and the loose jointed manner of his comic roles 47 Writing for The Washington Post Hal Hinson called Reeves the perfect choice and praised the surfing scenes but opined that the filmmakers have their characters make the most ludicrously illogical choices imaginable 48 At the 1992 MTV Movie Awards Reeves won the Most Desirable Male award 49 In 1991 Reeves developed an interest in a music career he formed an alternative rock band called Dogstar consisting of members Robert Mailhouse Gregg Miller and Bret Domrose Reeves played the bass guitar A year later he played Jonathan Harker in Francis Ford Coppola s Gothic horror Bram Stoker s Dracula based on Stoker s 1897 novel Dracula Starring alongside Gary Oldman Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins the film was critically and commercially successful It grossed 215 8 million worldwide 50 For his role Reeves was required to speak with an English accent which drew some ridicule Overly posh and entirely ridiculous Reeves s performance is as painful as it is hilarious wrote Limara Salt of Virgin Media 51 In a retrospective interview in 2015 director Coppola said Reeves tried so hard He wanted to do it perfectly and in trying to do it perfectly it came off as stilted 52 Bram Stoker s Dracula was nominated for four Academy Awards winning three in Best Costume Design Best Sound Editing and Best Makeup 53 The film also received four nominations at the British Academy Film Awards 54 In 1993 he had a role in Much Ado About Nothing based on Shakespeare s play of the same name The film received positive reviews 55 although Reeves was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor 56 The New Republic magazine thought his casting was unfortunate because of his amateur performance 57 In that same year he starred in two more drama films Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Little Buddha both of which garnered a mixed to negative reception 58 59 The Independent critic gave Little Buddha a mixed review but opined that Reeves s part as a prince was credible 60 The film also left an impression on Reeves he later said When I played this innocent prince who starts to suspect something when he has the first revelations about old age sickness and death it hit me That lesson has never left me 61 He starred in the action thriller Speed 1994 alongside Sandra Bullock and Dennis Hopper He plays police officer Jack Traven who must prevent a bus from exploding by keeping its speed above 50 mph Speed was the directorial debut of Dutch director Jan de Bont Several actors were considered for the lead role but Reeves was chosen because Bont was impressed with his Point Break performance 62 To look the part Reeves shaved all his hair off and spent two months in the gym to gain muscle mass During production Reeves s friend River Phoenix and co star in My Own Private Idaho died resulting in adjustments to the filming schedule to allow him to mourn 62 Speed was released on June 10 to a critically acclaimed response Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune lauded Reeves calling him absolutely charismatic giving a performance juiced with joy as he jumps through elevator shafts and atop a subway train 63 David Ansen writing for Newsweek summarized Speed as Relentless without being overbearing this is one likely blockbuster that doesn t feel too big for its britches It s a friendly juggernaut 64 The film grossed 350 million from a 30 million budget and won two Academy Awards in 1995 Best Sound Editing and Best Sound 65 66 1995 1998 Continued acting efforts I do love it Shakespeare It s like this kind of code that once you start to inhabit it with breath and sound and feeling and thought it is the most powerful and consuming and freeing at the same time Just literally elemental in sound consonants and vowels What I found out in doing it Hamlet was that it brought up for me all the anger that was inside me for my mother I mean it surprised me just what was there and I hadn t seen that before Reeves on his Hamlet performance 67 Reeves s next leading role came in the 1995 cyberpunk action thriller Johnny Mnemonic directed by artist Robert Longo and based on the 1981 story of the same name by William Gibson Set in 2021 it is about a man who has a cybernetic brain implant and must deliver a data package before he dies or is killed by the Yakuza The film received mainly negative reviews and critics felt Reeves was woefully miscast 68 Roger Ebert opined that the film is one of the great goofy gestures of recent cinema a movie that doesn t deserve one nanosecond of serious analysis but has a kind of idiotic grandeur that makes you almost forgive it 69 As part of the film studio s marketing efforts a CD ROM video game was also released 70 He next appeared in the romantic drama A Walk in the Clouds 1995 which also garnered mixed to negative reviews 71 Reeves plays a young soldier returning home from World War II trying to settle down with a woman he married impulsively just before he enlisted Film critic Mick LaSalle opined that A Walk in the Clouds is for the most part a beautiful well acted and emotionally rich picture whereas Hal Hinson from The Washington Post said The film has the syrupy Kodak magic moment look of a Bo Derek movie and pretty much the same level of substance 72 73 Besides film work Reeves retreated briefly to the theatre playing Prince Hamlet in a 1995 Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Hamlet in Winnipeg Manitoba 74 The Sunday Times critic Roger Lewis believed his performance writing he quite embodied the innocence the splendid fury the animal grace of the leaps and bounds the emotional violence that form the Prince of Denmark He is one of the top three Hamlets I have seen for a simple reason he is Hamlet 75 Reeves was soon drawn to science fiction roles appearing in Chain Reaction 1996 with co stars Morgan Freeman Rachel Weisz Fred Ward Kevin Dunn and Brian Cox He plays a researcher of a green energy project who has to go on the run when he is framed for murder Chain Reaction was not a critical success and gained mostly a negative reaction review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave it a rating of 16 and described it as a man on the run thriller that mostly sticks to generic formula 76 Reeves s film choices after Chain Reaction were also critical disappointments He starred in the independent crime comedy Feeling Minnesota 1996 with Vincent D Onofrio and Cameron Diaz which was described as shoddily assembled and fundamentally miscast by Rotten Tomatoes 77 In that year he turned down an offer to star in Speed 2 Cruise Control despite being offered a salary of 12 million 78 According to Reeves this decision caused 20th Century Fox to sever ties with him for a decade 79 Instead Reeves toured with his band Dogstar and appeared in the drama The Last Time I Committed Suicide 1997 based on a 1950 letter written by Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac Reeves s performance gained mixed reviews Paul Tatara of CNN called him void of talent here he is again reciting his lines as if they re non related words strung together as a memory exercise 80 whereas Empire magazine thought Reeves gives the nearest thing to a performance in his career as the enthusiastic feckless drunk 81 He starred in the 1997 supernatural horror The Devil s Advocate alongside Al Pacino and Charlize Theron Reeves agreed to a pay cut of several million dollars so that the film studio could afford to hire Pacino 82 Based on Andrew Neiderman s novel of the same name the feature is about a successful young lawyer invited to New York City to work for a major firm who discovers the owner of the firm is a devil The Devil s Advocate attracted positive reviews from critics 83 Film critic James Berardinelli called the film highly enjoyable and wrote There are times when Reeves lacks the subtlety that would have made this a more multi layered portrayal but it s nevertheless a solid job 84 1999 2004 Stardom with The Matrix franchise and comedies Reeves promoting The Day the Earth Stood Still in Mexico 2008 In 1999 Reeves starred in the critically acclaimed science fiction film The Matrix the first installment in what would become The Matrix franchise 85 Reeves portrays computer programmer Thomas Anderson a hacker using the alias Neo who discovers humanity is trapped inside a simulated reality created by intelligent machines Written and directed by the Wachowskis Reeves had to prepare by reading Kevin Kelly s Out of Control The New Biology of Machines Social Systems and the Economic World and Dylan Evans s ideas on evolutionary psychology The principal cast underwent months of intense training with martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo ping to prepare for the fight scenes 86 The Matrix proved to be a box office success several critics considered it to be one of the best science fiction films of all time 87 88 Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times felt it was a wildly cinematic futuristic thriller that is determined to overpower the imagination despite perceiving weaknesses in the film s dialogue 89 Janet Maslin of The New York Times credited Reeves for being a strikingly chic Prada model of an action hero and thought the martial arts stunts were the film s strongest feature 90 The Matrix received Academy Awards for Best Film Editing Best Sound Editing Best Visual Effects and Best Sound 91 After the success of The Matrix Reeves avoided another blockbuster in favour of a lighthearted sports comedy The Replacements 2000 He agreed to a pay cut to enable Gene Hackman to co star in the film 82 Against his wishes Reeves starred in the thriller The Watcher 2000 playing a serial killer who stalks a retired FBI agent He said that a friend forged his signature on a contract which he could not prove he appeared in the film to avoid legal action 92 Upon its release the film was critically panned 93 That year he had a supporting role in another thriller Sam Raimi s The Gift a story about a woman played by Cate Blanchett with extrasensory perception asked to help find a young woman who disappeared The film grossed 44 million worldwide 94 Film critic Paul Clinton of CNN thought the film was fairly compelling saying of Reeves s acting Raimi managed to get a performance out of Reeves that only occasionally sounds like he s reading his lines from the back of a cereal box 95 In 2001 Reeves continued to explore and accept roles in a diverse range of genres The first was a romantic drama Sweet November a remake of the 1968 film of the same name This was his second collaboration with Charlize Theron the film was met with a generally negative reception 96 Desson Thompson of The Washington Post criticized it for its syrupy cliches greeting card wisdom and over the top tragicomedy but commended Reeves for his likability factor in every performance he gives 97 Hardball 2001 marked Reeves s attempt in another sports comedy Directed by Brian Robbins it is based on the book Hardball A Season in the Projects by Daniel Coyle Reeves plays Conor O Neill a troubled young man who agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of obtaining a loan Film critic Roger Ebert noted the film s desire to tackle difficult subjects and baseball coaching but felt it lacked depth and Reeves s performance was glum and distant 98 By 2002 his professional music career had come to an end when Dogstar disbanded The band had released two albums during their decade together Our Little Visionary in 1996 and Happy Ending in 2000 99 Sometime afterwards Reeves performed in the band Becky for a year founded by Dogstar band mate Rob Mailhouse but quit in 2005 citing a lack of interest in a serious music career 100 101 After being absent from the screen in 2002 Reeves returned to The Matrix sequels in 2003 with The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions released in May and November respectively Principal photography for both films was completed back to back primarily at Fox Studios in Australia 102 The Matrix Reloaded garnered mostly favourable reviews John Powers of LA Weekly praised the dazzling pyrotechnics but was critical of certain machine like action scenes Of Reeves s acting Powers thought it was somewhat wooden but felt he has the ability to exude a charmed aura 103 Andrew Walker writing for the Evening Standard praised the cinematography visually it gives full value as a virtuoso workout for your senses but he was less taken by the film s dime store philosophy 104 The film grossed 739 million worldwide 105 The Matrix Revolutions the third instalment was met with mixed reception According to review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the consensus was that characters and ideas take a back seat to the special effects 106 Paul Clinton writing for CNN praised the special effects but felt Reeves s character was unfocused 107 In contrast the San Francisco Chronicle s Carla Meyer was highly critical of the special effects writing The Wachowskis computer generated imagery goes from dazzling to deadening in action scenes that favor heavy clanking weaponry over the martial arts moves that thrilled viewers of The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded 108 Nevertheless the film grossed a healthy 427 million worldwide although less than the two previous films 109 Something s Gotta Give a romantic comedy was Reeves s last release of 2003 He co starred with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton and played Dr Julian Mercer in the film Something s Gotta Give received generally favourable reviews 110 2005 2013 Thrillers documentaries and directorial debut Reeves at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009 In 2005 Reeves played the titular role in Constantine an occult detective film about a man who has the ability to perceive and communicate with half angels and half demons The film was a respectable box office hit grossing 230 million worldwide from a 100 million budget but attracted mixed to positive reviews 111 The Sydney Morning Herald s critic wrote that Constantine isn t bad but it doesn t deserve any imposing adjectives It s occasionally cheesy sometimes enjoyable intermittently scary and constantly spiked with celestial blatherskite 112 He next appeared in Thumbsucker which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 113 A comedy adapted from the 1999 Walter Kirn novel of the same name the story follows a boy with a thumb sucking problem Reeves and the cast garnered positive critical reviews with The Washington Post describing it as a gently stirring symphony about emotional transition filled with lovely musical passages and softly nuanced performances 114 Reeves appeared in the Richard Linklater directed animated science fiction thriller A Scanner Darkly which premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival 115 Reeves played Bob Arctor Fred an undercover agent in a futuristic dystopia under high tech police surveillance Based on the novel of the same name by Philip K Dick the film was a box office failure 116 However the film attracted generally favourable reviews Paul Arendt of the BBC thought the film was beautiful to watch but Reeves was outshone by his co star Robert Downey Jr 117 118 His next role was Alex Wyler in The Lake House 2006 a romantic drama adaptation of the South Korean film Il Mare 2000 which reunited him with Sandra Bullock Despite its box office success 119 Mark Kermode of The Guardian was highly critical writing this syrup drenched supernatural whimsy achieves stupidity at a genuinely international level The last time Bullock and Reeves were together on screen the result was Speed This should have been entitled Stop 120 Towards the end of 2006 he co narrated The Great Warming with Alanis Morissette a documentary about climate change mitigation 121 Next in 2008 Reeves collaborated with director David Ayer on the crime thriller Street Kings He played an undercover policeman who must clear his name after the death of another officer Released on April 11 the film grossed a moderate 66 million worldwide 122 The film s plot and Reeves performance however were met with mostly unenthusiastic reviews Paul Byrnes of The Sydney Morning Herald stated It s full of twists and turns a dead body in every reel but it s not difficult to work out who s betraying whom and that s just not good enough 123 The Guardian opined that Reeves is fundamentally blank and uninteresting 124 Reeves starred in another science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still a loose adaptation of the 1951 film of the same name He portrayed Klaatu an alien sent from outer space to try to change human behaviour or eradicate humans because of their environmental impact At the 2009 Razzie Awards the film was nominated for Worst Prequel Remake Rip off or Sequel 125 Many critics were unimpressed with the heavy use of special effects The Telegraph credited Reeves ability to engage the audience but thought the cinematography was abysmal and the sub Al Gore environment lecture leaves you light headed with tedium 126 127 Tiger Chen and Reeves at the Fantastic Fest film festival 2013 Rebecca Miller s The Private Lives of Pippa Lee was Reeves sole release of 2009 which premiered at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival 128 The romantic comedy and its ensemble received an amicable review from The Telegraph s David Gritten Miller s film is a triumph Uniformly well acted it boasts a psychologically knowing script clearly written by a smart assertive human 129 In 2010 he starred in another romantic comedy Henry s Crime about a man who is released from prison for a crime he did not commit but then targets the same bank with his former cellmate The film was not a box office hit 130 Reeves only work in 2011 was an adult picture book titled Ode to Happiness which he wrote complemented by Alexandra Grant s illustrations 131 132 Reeves co produced and appeared in a 2012 documentary Side by Side He interviewed filmmakers including James Cameron Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan the feature investigated digital and photochemical film creation 133 Next Reeves starred in Generation Um 2012 an independent drama which was critically panned 134 In 2013 Reeves starred in his own directorial debut the martial arts film Man of Tai Chi The film has multilingual dialogue and follows a young man drawn to an underground fight club partially inspired by the life of Reeves friend Tiger Chen Principal photography took place in China and in Hong Kong Reeves was also assisted by Yuen Woo ping the fight choreographer of The Matrix films 135 Man of Tai Chi premiered at the Beijing Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival 136 137 and received praise from director John Woo 138 A wider warm response followed suit Bilge Ebiri of Vulture thought the fight sequences were beautifully assembled and Reeves showed restraint with the film editing to present the fighters motion sequences 139 The Los Angeles Times wrote The brutally efficient shooting style Reeves employs to film master choreographer Yuen Woo ping s breathtaking fights is refreshingly grounded and old school kinetic 140 while Dave McGinn of The Globe and Mail called the film ambitious but generic 141 At the box office Man of Tai Chi was a commercial disappointment grossing only 5 5 million worldwide from a budget of 25 million 142 143 Also in 2013 Reeves played Kai in the 3D fantasy 47 Ronin a Japanese fable about a group of rogue samurai The film premiered in Japan but failed to gain traction with audiences reviews were not positive causing Universal Pictures to reduce advertising for the film elsewhere 47 Ronin was a box office flop and was mostly poorly received 144 2014 present Resurgence with John Wick Reeves in 2015 After this series of commercial failures Reeves career rebounded in 2014 He played the titular role in the action thriller John Wick directed by Chad Stahelski In the first instalment of the John Wick franchise Reeves plays a retired hitman seeking vengeance He worked closely with the screenwriter to develop the story We all agreed on the potential of the project I love the role but you want the whole story the whole ensemble to come to life Reeves said 145 Filmed on location in the New York City area the film was eventually released on October 24 in the United States 146 The Hollywood Reporter was impressed by the director s confident muscular action debut and Reeves effortless performance which marked his return to the action genre 147 Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times praised Reeves fight scenes and wrote he is always more comfortable in roles that demand cool over hot attitude over emotion 148 John Wick proved to be a box office success grossing 86 million worldwide 149 Next Reeves starred in a smaller scale horror feature Knock Knock 2015 a remake of the 1977 film Death Game Described as over the top destruction by the Toronto Star Reeves plays a father home alone when two young women show up and start a game of cat and mouse 150 His other releases in 2015 were the documentaries Deep Web about crime on the dark web and Mifune The Last Samurai about the life of a Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune famous for playing samurai characters He narrated both films 151 152 Reeves appeared in five film releases in 2016 The first was Exposed a crime thriller about a detective who investigates his partner s death and discovers police corruption along the way The film received negative reviews for its confused plot and Reeves was criticized for displaying limited facial expressions 153 154 His next release the comedy Keanu was better received 155 In it he voiced the eponymous kitten Reeves then had a minor role in The Neon Demon a psychological horror directed by Nicolas Winding Refn He played Hank a lustful motel owner who appears in Jesse s played by Elle Fanning nightmare 156 In his fourth release he played a charismatic leader of a settlement in The Bad Batch 157 His final release of the year was The Whole Truth featuring Gabriel Basso Gugu Mbatha Raw Renee Zellweger and Jim Belushi He played Richard a defence attorney Noel Murray of The A V Club described it as moderately clever reasonably entertaining courtroom drama with a skilled cast but overall a mundane film 158 Reeves also appeared in Swedish Dicks a two season web television series 159 In 2017 Reeves agreed to reprise his role for a sequel in the John Wick franchise John Wick Chapter 2 The story carries on from the first film and follows John Wick as he goes on the run when a bounty is placed on him The film was a critical and commercial success grossing 171 5 million worldwide more than its predecessor 160 Chris Hewitt of Empire magazine praised Reeves performance which complemented his previous action roles Point Break and Speed 161 However Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times described the picture as a down and dirty B picture with a lustrous A picture soul 162 Besides to this large scale feature Reeves starred in a drama To the Bone in which he plays a doctor helping a young woman with anorexia It premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival followed by distribution on Netflix in July 163 164 Early reviews were positive with praise for its non glamorized portrayal of anorexia although the New Statesman magazine thought it was irresponsible 165 That year Reeves also made cameo appearances in the films A Happening of Monumental Proportions and SPF 18 166 167 Guillermo Amoedo and Reeves on the set of Knock Knock in 2014 Reeves reunited with Winona Ryder in the 2018 comedy Destination Wedding about wedding guests who develop a mutual affection for each other They had worked together previously in Bram Stoker s Dracula A Scanner Darkly and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Reeves also co produced and starred in two thrillers Siberia in which he plays a diamond trader who travels to Siberia to search for his Russian partner and Replicas which tells the story of a neuroscientist who violates laws and bioethics to bring his family back to life after they die in a car crash Siberia was critically panned reviewers thought the plot was nonsensical and Reeves had little chemistry with co star Ana Ularu 168 169 Replicas did not fare well with critics either The A V Club praised Reeves performance but gave the film a grade D adding it is garbage 170 It was also a box office failure earning 9 3 million from a budget of 30 million 170 171 Returning to the John Wick franchise Reeves starred in John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum 2019 the third feature in the series directed by Stahelski The film takes place immediately after the events of John Wick Chapter 2 and features new cast members including Halle Berry The film was another box office hit grossing 171 million in the United States and more than 155 million internationally 172 The Globe and Mail s reviewer gave the film three out of four stars praising the fight scenes but felt there was aesthetic overindulgence with the cinematography 173 The Guardian s Cath Clarke questioned Reeves acting she wrote that he keeps his face statue still three movies in franchise bloat is beginning to set in 174 Reeves was nominated for Favorite Male Movie Star of 2019 in the People s Choice Awards and the film itself was nominated for Best Contemporary Film in the Art Directors Guild Awards 175 176 Reeves then voiced Duke Caboom in 2019 s Toy Story 4 the fourth instalment of Pixar s Toy Story franchise 177 In that same year on April 27 and 28 a film festival was held in his honour called KeanuCon hosted in Glasgow Scotland 178 Over two days nine of his films were screened for guests 179 As early as 2008 Reeves and Alex Winter had shown enthusiasm for a third Bill amp Ted film but the project went into development limbo 180 Finally in 2020 Bill amp Ted Face the Music the third film in the franchise was released 181 182 The critic from Salon magazine was disappointed in Reeves performance but praised the film for its message that music has the power to unite the world 183 Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a grade B and complimented the onscreen chemistry between Reeves and Winter 184 He also appeared in The SpongeBob Movie Sponge on the Run as a tumbleweed named Sage 185 Reeves appears as Johnny Silverhand in the video game Cyberpunk 2077 186 187 In December 2021 Reeves returned to the screen for the fourth film in The Matrix franchise The Matrix Resurrections Carrie Anne Moss also reprised her role as Trinity 188 189 The Matrix Resurrections was a box office disappointment 190 one critic praised Reeves and Moss performances but thought the film was no game changer 191 Lionsgate s John Wick Chapter 4 premiered on March 24 2023 Reeves reprised his role as the title character 192 Upcoming projects In 2019 Reeves travelled to Sao Paulo to produce a Netflix series Conquest Details are being kept secret 193 194 A comic book series BRZRKR co written by Reeves was published in March 2021 He is expected to star in a film adaptation of it 195 A fifth sequel to John Wick was planned 196 197 but Stahelski said he would like to give the franchise a rest for the time being 198 Reeves will reprise his role as Johnny Silverhand in the Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty 199 Personal lifeIn 1998 Reeves met director David Lynch s assistant Jennifer Syme at a party thrown for his band Dogstar and they started dating 200 On December 24 1999 Syme gave birth eight months into her pregnancy to the couple s child who was stillborn The couple broke up several weeks afterward but later reconciled 201 On April 2 2001 Syme was killed when her vehicle collided with three parked cars on Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles Syme was impaired and also not belted in 202 203 Reeves told investigators that they were back together 201 and had brunch together in San Francisco the day before the accident 202 Reeves acted as a pallbearer for Syme 202 who was buried next to their daughter 204 He was scheduled to film the sequels to The Matrix the following spring but sought peace and time according to friend Bret Domrose of Dogstar 202 Reeves has also been romantically linked to longtime friend and filmmaker Brenda Davis whose child he is godfather to 205 206 207 and model actress China Chow 208 209 In 2009 Reeves met Alexandra Grant at a dinner party they went on to collaborate on two books together 210 211 They went public with their relationship in November 2019 3 1 212 Reeves is discreet about his spiritual beliefs saying that it is something personal and private 213 When asked if he was a spiritual person he said that he believes in God faith inner faith the self passion and things and that he is very spiritual and supremely bountiful 214 Although he does not formally practice Buddhism the religion has left a strong impression on him especially after filming Little Buddha 61 He said Most of the things I ve come away with from Buddhism have been human understanding feelings impermanence and trying to understand other people and where they re coming from 61 When asked on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2019 about his views on what happens after death Reeves replied I know that the ones who love us will miss us 215 In 2023 the lipopeptide Keanumycin a substance deadly to fungi was named in honor of Reeves 216 Business and philanthropy Mural of Reeves in Santiago de Chile Reeves supports several charities and causes In response to his sister s battle with leukemia he founded a private cancer foundation which aids children s hospitals and provides cancer research 217 218 In June 2020 he volunteered for Camp Rainbow Gold an Idaho children s cancer charity 219 Reeves has said Money is the last thing I think about I could live on what I have already made for the next few centuries 220 It was rumoured that Reeves gave away a substantial portion estimated to be 35 125 million of his earnings from The Matrix to the special effects and makeup crews However this has been significantly embellished Reeves negotiated a smaller deal relinquishing his contractual right to a percentage of the sequels profits in exchange for a more extensive special effects budget 221 222 After filming John Wick Chapter 4 Reeves Chad Stahelski and Brazilian jiu jitsu instructor Dave Camarillo signed an exclusive training uniform that was put up for auction in March 2023 to raise money for St Jude Children s Research Hospital 223 Reeves co founded a production company Company Films with friend Stephen Hamel 224 An avid motorcyclist Reeves co founded Arch Motorcycle Company which builds and sells custom motorcycles 225 226 In 2017 Reeves Jessica Fleischmann and Alexandra Grant founded book publisher X Artists Books also known as XAB 227 210 He has written two books Ode to Happiness and Shadows both of which are collaborations with Grant he provided the text to her photographs and art 228 CensorshipIn 2022 Reeves recitation of the Beat poem Pull My Daisy for a virtual benefit concert for Tibet House US a nonprofit organization affiliated with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama angered Chinese nationalists 229 230 231 Reeves s films have been banned from streaming platforms in China such as iQiyi Tencent Video and Youku 232 233 In the media Reeves star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame In a 2005 article for Time magazine Lev Grossman called Reeves Hollywood s ultimate introvert 234 He has been described as a workaholic charming and excruciatingly shy During the production of Constantine director Francis Lawrence commented on his personality calling him hardworking and generous His co star Shia LaBeouf said I ve worked with him for a year and a couple of months but I don t really know him that much 234 Erwin Stoff of 3 Arts Entertainment has served as Reeves s agent and manager since he was 16 and produced many of his films Stoff said Reeves is a really private person and keeps his distance from other people 234 235 In 2010 an image of Reeves became an internet meme after photographs of him were published sitting on a park bench with a sad facial expression The images were posted on the 4chan discussion board and were soon distributed via several blogs and media outlets leading to the Sad Keanu meme being spread on the internet An unofficial holiday was created when a Facebook fan page declared June 15 as Cheer up Keanu Day 211 236 He would later downplay the photo saying Man I was eating a sandwich I was thinking I had some stuff going on I was hungry 237 Reeves s casual persona and ability to establish rapport have been observed by the public leading him to be dubbed the Internet s boyfriend 238 239 240 In 2019 Vox cited Reeves s unorthodox filmography and ability to appeal to nerd culture as the primary reasons for his internet popularity 241 While filming Bill amp Ted Face the Music in July 2019 Reeves and other cast members came across a house with a banner reading You re Breathtaking and Mini Keanu two memes that had come out of Reeves s appearance at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2019 for the game Cyberpunk 2077 Reeves took time to sign the banner and talk to the family 242 Reeves appeared on Forbes annual Celebrity 100 list in 2001 and 2002 at number 36 and 49 respectively 243 244 In 2005 Reeves received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture industry 245 In 2016 The Hollywood Reporter calculated that Reeves had earned 250 million for The Matrix franchise making him one of the highest paid actors 246 In 2020 The New York Times ranked him at number four on its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century 247 Filmography and awardsMain articles Keanu Reeves filmography and awards and nominations Prolific in film since 1985 Reeves s most acclaimed and highest grossing films according to the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes include River s Edge 1987 Bill and Ted s Excellent Adventure 1989 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Much Ado About Nothing 1993 Speed 1994 The Matrix 1999 John Wick 2014 John Wick Chapter 2 2017 John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum 2019 and Toy Story 4 2019 248 Reeves has won four MTV Movie Awards 49 249 250 and received two Best Actor nominations at the Saturn Awards 251 He was nominated twice for a People s Choice Award Favorite Male Movie Star and Favorite Action Movie Star for his performance in John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum 2019 252 In September 2021 Tae Kwon Do Life Magazine deemed Reeves the 1 Martial Arts movie star in the world based upon his multiple films in the genre their popularity and sheer box office gross 253 BibliographyReeves Keanu text by Grant Alexandra drawings by book design by 2011 Bergam Janey ed Ode to Happiness Gottingen Steidl Publishers ISBN 9783869302096 OCLC 756797130 Reeves Keanu text by Grant Alexandra photographs by 2014 Shadows A Collaborative Project by Alexandra Grant and 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