Keanu Reeves

**Keanu Charles Reeves** (born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian actor. He is known for his roles in movies like the _Bill and Ted_ series, _The Matrix_ series, _Speed_, and _John Wick_. He also played John Constantine in the 2005 movie _Constantine_.

At age 9, he started his acting career by appearing onstage, and at age 14, he appeared in Canadian television series and commercials.  He also appeared in short movies and stage work in early 1980s. Keanu acted his first significant role in _River's Edge_ (1987), and the next year (1988), he appeared in some movies such as _Dangerous Liaisons_ and _Permanent Record_.  In 1989, he appeared in the successful comedy _Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure_, which was one of the _Bill and Ted_ series.  In 2008 he played the alien in _The Day the Earth Stood Still_.

In 2014, he began playing John Wick in three movies: _John Wick_, _John Wick: Chapter 2_ and _John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum_. In 2022, he voiced Batman / Bruce Wayne in the animated movie _DC League of Super-Pets_.

## Early life

Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon. He is the son of Patricia Bond (née Taylor), an English-born costume designer/performer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves, Jr. His father, who is a Hawaiian-born American, has English, Native Hawaiian, Chinese, Irish, and Portuguese ancestry. Reeves has said: "My grandmother is Chinese and Hawaiian, so I was around Chinese art, furniture and cuisine when I was growing up". He is named after his uncle, and his first name is a Hawaiian word that means 'cool breeze over the mountains'.

## Filmography

|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Role(s)|scope="col"|Director(s)|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1985|||Short film|||||||
|rowspan=3|1986|Heaver||||||||
|Tommy||||||||||
|Matt||||||||||
|rowspan=4|1988|||||||||
|rowspan=2|1989|||||||||
|rowspan=2|1990|||||||||
|rowspan=3|1991|||||||||
|1992||||||||||
|rowspan=4|1993|||||||||
|Ortiz the Dog Boy|and|Uncredited cameo||||||||
|1994||||||||||
|rowspan=2|1995|||||||||
|rowspan=2|1996|||||||||
|rowspan=2|1997|Harry||||||||
|rowspan=2|1999|||||||||
|Himself|and|Uncredited cameo||||||||
|rowspan=3|2000|||||||||
|rowspan=2|2001|||||||||
|rowspan=4|2003|rowspan=3|Thomas Anderson / Neo|||||||
||Voice|||||||||
|rowspan=3|2005|||||||||
|Himself||Cameo||||||||
|rowspan=3|2006|||||||||
|Narrator||Documentary||||||||
|rowspan=2|2008|||||||||
|Klaatu||||||||||
|2009||||||||||
|2010||||||||||
|rowspan=2|2012|Himself||Also producer; documentary||||||
|John||||||||||
|rowspan=2|2013|||||||||
|Kai||||||||||
|2014|John Wick|and  <small>(uncredited)</small>||||||||
|rowspan=3|2015|||Also executive producer||||||
|rowspan=2|Narrator||rowspan=2|Documentary||||||
|rowspan=5|2016|||Also producer||||||
|Keanu||Voice cameo||||||||
|Hank||||||||||
|rowspan=4|2017|||||||||
|Bob||rowspan=2|Cameo|||||||
|Himself||||||||||
|rowspan=3|2018|||Also producer||||||
|Frank||||||||||
|||Also producer||||||||
|rowspan=5|2019|||||||||
|Himself||||||||||
|Duke Caboom||Voice||||||||
|align="center"|—||Executive producer|||||||
|Himself||Cameo||||||||
|2020|||Filming|||||||
|2021|Thomas Anderson / Neo|Lana Wachowski||||||||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Keanu Reeves
- **image**: Reunião com o ator norte-americano Keanu Reeves (40564290483) (cropped) 2.jpg
- **caption**: Reeves in 2019
- **birth name**: Keanu Charles Reeves
- **birth place**: Beirut, Lebanon
- **occupation**: Actor, musician
- **height**: 1.84 m
- **years active**: 1984 - present
- **partner**: *Jennifer Syme (1998 - 2000)
*Alexandra Grant (2019-present)