Keanu Reeves

Keanu Charles Reeves (Beiroet, 2 september 1964) is een Canadees acteur.

Biografie Reeves' voornaam betekent "koele wind over de bergen" in het Hawaïaans. Zijn vader is afkomstig uit Hawaï en zijn moeder is Brits; ze ontmoetten elkaar in een periode dat ze allebei in Libanon werkten. Na de scheiding van zijn ouders in 1966 emigreerde zijn moeder met de kinderen naar Toronto.

Reeves groeide op in Toronto. In een tijdspanne van vijf jaar bezocht hij vijf middelbare scholen, waaronder de 'Etobicoke School of the Arts', waar hij later werd weggestuurd, vermoedelijk omdat hij dyslectisch is.

Reeves boekte zijn eerste succes met de film River's Edge (1986), maar zijn eerste grote rol volgde datzelfde jaar nog in Youngblood, aan de zijde van Rob Lowe. Wereldwijde bekendheid verwierf hij met de rol van Ted in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) en als undercoveragent Johnny Utah in Point Break (1991), tegenover Patrick Swayze. In The Devil's Advocate (1997) speelde hij tegenover Charlize Theron en Al Pacino; in 2001 stond hij opnieuw samen met Charlize Theron voor de camera in Sweet November. Sinds 1999 staat Reeves vooral bekend om zijn hoofdrol als Neo in de The Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded (2003) en The Matrix Revolutions (2003) – een sciencefictionfilmtrilogie die hem meer dan 200 miljoen dollar opleverde en hem daarmee tot de bestbetaalde acteur aller tijden maakte.

Reeves kreeg op 31 januari 2005 een ster op de Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In 2012 verscheen de documentaire Side by Side, die Reeves produceerde en waarvoor hij verschillende interviews afnam, waarin regisseurs als James Cameron en Martin Scorsese spreken over de geschiedenis van de digitalisering van de film.

Reeves' regiedebuut, Man of Tai Chi, ging in 2013 in première. Hij acteert zelf ook in de film.

Met de tetralogie John Wick-films (2014-2023) is Reeves een erkend internationaal fenomeen in het actiefilmgenre. Opmerkelijk aan deze films is dat ze geregisseerd werden door zijn vriend Chad Stahelski, die vele malen als stuntdubbel van Reeves fungeerde.

Keanu Reeves verscheen ook in het videospel "Cyberpunk 2077" als een hoofdpersonage met als naam Johnny Silverhand.

Filmografie

|- style="text-align:center;" |1985||style="text-align:left;"|One Step Away||style="text-align:left;"|Ron Petrie|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1986||style="text-align:left;"|Flying||style="text-align:left;"|Tommy|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1986||style="text-align:left;"|Brotherhood of Justice||style="text-align:left;"|Derek||style="text-align:left;"|televisiefilm || |- style="text-align:center;" |1986||style="text-align:left;"|Youngblood||style="text-align:left;"|Heaver|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1986||style="text-align:left;"|Act of Vengeance||style="text-align:left;"|Buddy Martin||style="text-align:left;"|televisiefilm || |- style="text-align:center;" |1986||style="text-align:left;"|Young Again||style="text-align:left;"|17-jarige Michael Riley||style="text-align:left;"|televisiefilm || |- style="text-align:center;" |1986||style="text-align:left;"|River's Edge||style="text-align:left;"|Matt|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1986||style="text-align:left;"|Under the Influence||style="text-align:left;"|Eddie Talbot||style="text-align:left;"|televisiefilm || |- style="text-align:center;" |1986||style="text-align:left;"|Babes in Toyland||style="text-align:left;"|Jack/Jack-be-Nimble||style="text-align:left;"|televisiefilm || |- style="text-align:center;" |1988||style="text-align:left;"|The Night Before||style="text-align:left;"|Winston Connelly|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1988||style="text-align:left;"|Permanent Record||style="text-align:left;"|Chris Townsend|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1988||style="text-align:left;"|The Prince of Pennsylvania||style="text-align:left;"|Rupert Marshetta|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1988||style="text-align:left;"|Dangerous Liaisons||style="text-align:left;"|Le Chevalier Raphael Danceny|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1989||style="text-align:left;"|Life Under Water||style="text-align:left;"|Kip||style="text-align:left;"|televisiefilm || |- style="text-align:center;" |1989||style="text-align:left;"|Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure||style="text-align:left;"|Ted Logan|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1989||style="text-align:left;"|Parenthood||style="text-align:left;"|Tod Higgins|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1990||style="text-align:left;"|I Love You to Death||style="text-align:left;"|Marlon James|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1990||style="text-align:left;"|Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures||style="text-align:left;"|Ted Logan (stem)||style="text-align:left;"|televisieserie|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1990||style="text-align:left;"|Tune in Tomorrow...||style="text-align:left;"|Martin Loader|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1991||style="text-align:left;"|Providence||style="text-align:left;"|Eric|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1991||style="text-align:left;"|Point Break||style="text-align:left;"|FBI-agent John 'Johnny' Utah|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1991||style="text-align:left;"|Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey||style="text-align:left;"|Ted Logan/Evil Ted|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1991||style="text-align:left;"|My Own Private Idaho||style="text-align:left;"|Scott Favor|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1992||style="text-align:left;"|Bram Stoker's Dracula||style="text-align:left;"|Jonathan Harker|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1993||style="text-align:left;"|Much Ado About Nothing||style="text-align:left;"|Don John|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1993||style="text-align:left;"|Even Cowgirls Get the Blues||style="text-align:left;"|Julian Gitche|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1993||style="text-align:left;"|Little Buddha||style="text-align:left;"|Siddhartha|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1994||style="text-align:left;"|Speed||style="text-align:left;"|Officier Jack Traven|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1995||style="text-align:left;"|Johnny Mnemonic||style="text-align:left;"|Johnny Mnemonic|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1995||style="text-align:left;"|A Walk in the Clouds||style="text-align:left;"|Paul Sutton|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1996||style="text-align:left;"|Chain Reaction||style="text-align:left;"|Eddie Kasalivich|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1996||style="text-align:left;"|Feeling Minnesota||style="text-align:left;"|Jjaks Clayton|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1997||style="text-align:left;"|The Last Time I Committed Suicide||style="text-align:left;"|Harry|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1997||style="text-align:left;"|The Devil's Advocate||style="text-align:left;"|Kevin Lomax|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1999||style="text-align:left;"|The Matrix||style="text-align:left;"|Neo|| |- style="text-align:center;" |1999||style="text-align:left;"|Me and Will||style="text-align:left;"|Dogstar/zichzelf|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2000||style="text-align:left;"|The Replacements||style="text-align:left;"|Shane Falco|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2000||style="text-align:left;"|The Watcher||style="text-align:left;"|David Allen Griffin|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2000||style="text-align:left;"|The Gift||style="text-align:left;"|Donnie Barksdale|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2001||style="text-align:left;"|Sweet November||style="text-align:left;"|Nelson Moss|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2001||style="text-align:left;"|Hardball||style="text-align:left;"|Conor O'Neill|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2003||style="text-align:left;"|The Great Warming||style="text-align:left;"|Verteller||style="text-align:left;"|televisiefilm || |- style="text-align:center;" |2003||style="text-align:left;"|The Matrix Reloaded||style="text-align:left;"|Neo|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2003||style="text-align:left;"|Kid's Story||style="text-align:left;"|Neo (stem)|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2003||style="text-align:left;"|The Matrix Revolutions||style="text-align:left;"|Neo|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2003||style="text-align:left;"|Something's Gotta Give||style="text-align:left;"|Dr. Julian Mercer|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2005||style="text-align:left;"|Thumbsucker||style="text-align:left;"|Perry Lyman|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2005||style="text-align:left;"|Constantine||style="text-align:left;"|John Constantine|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2006||style="text-align:left;"|A Scanner Darkly||style="text-align:left;"|Bob Arctor|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2006||style="text-align:left;"|The Lake House||style="text-align:left;"|Alex Wyler|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2008||style="text-align:left;"|Street Kings||style="text-align:left;"|Tom Ludlow|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2008||style="text-align:left;"|The Day the Earth Stood Still ||style="text-align:left;"|Klaatu|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2009||style="text-align:left;"|The Private Lives of Pippa Lee ||style="text-align:left;"|Chris Nadeau|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2010||style="text-align:left;"|Henry's Crime ||style="text-align:left;"|Henry Torne|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2011||style="text-align:left;"|Generation Um... ||style="text-align:left;"|John|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2012||style="text-align:left;"|Side by Side ||style="text-align:left;"|Presentator/producent||style="text-align:left;"|documentaire || |- style="text-align:center;" |2013||style="text-align:left;"|Man of Tai Chi||style="text-align:left;"|Donaka Mark|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2013||style="text-align:left;"|47 Ronin||style="text-align:left;"|Kai|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2014||style="text-align:left;"|John Wick||style="text-align:left;"|John Wick|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2015||style="text-align:left;"|Knock Knock||style="text-align:left;"|Evan Webber|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2016||style="text-align:left;"|Exposed||style="text-align:left;"|Detective Galban|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2016||style="text-align:left;"|Keanu||style="text-align:left;"|Keanu||style="text-align:left;"|stem |- style="text-align:center;" |2016||style="text-align:left;"|The Whole Truth||style="text-align:left;"|advocaat Ramsey|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2016||style="text-align:left;"|The Neon Demon||style="text-align:left;"|Hank|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2016||style="text-align:left;"|The Bad Batch||style="text-align:left;"|The Dream|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2017||style="text-align:left;"|To the Bone||style="text-align:left;"|Dr. Beckham|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2017||style="text-align:left;"|John Wick: Chapter 2||style="text-align:left;"|John Wick|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2017||style="text-align:left;"|A Happening of Monumental Proportions||style="text-align:left;"|Bob|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2018||style="text-align:left;"|Siberia||style="text-align:left;"|Lucas Hill|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2018||style="text-align:left;"|Destination Wedding||style="text-align:left;"|Frank|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2018||style="text-align:left;"|Replicas||style="text-align:left;"|William Foster|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2019||style="text-align:left;"|John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum||style="text-align:left;"|John Wick|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2019||style="text-align:left;"|Always Be My Maybe||style="text-align:left;"|zichzelf|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2019||style="text-align:left;"|Toy Story 4||style="text-align:left;"|Duke Caboom||style="text-align:left;"|stem |- style="text-align:center;" |2020||style="text-align:left;"|Bill and Ted Face the Music||style="text-align:left;"|Ted Logan|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2021||style="text-align:left;"|The Matrix Resurrections||style="text-align:left;"|Neo / Thomas Anderson|| |- style="text-align:center;" |2022||style="text-align:left;"|DC League of Super-Pets||style="text-align:left;"|Bruce Wayne / Batman||style="text-align:left;"|stem |- style="text-align:center;"