Keanu gained praise for playing a hustler in the independent drama My Own Private Idaho and established himself as an action hero with leading roles in Point Break and Speed.
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Keanu gained praise for playing a hustler in the independent drama My Own Private Idaho and established himself as an action hero with leading roles in Point Break and Speed.
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Keanu played John Constantine in Constantine and starred in the romantic drama The Lake House, the science fiction thriller The Day the Earth Stood Still, and the crime thriller Street Kings.
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Keanu has played bass guitar for the band Dogstar and pursued other endeavours such as writing and philanthropy.
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Keanu's mother was working in Beirut when she met his father, who abandoned his wife and family when Reeves was three years old.
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Keanu subsequently married her fourth husband, a hairdresser named Jack Bond; the marriage lasted until 1994.
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Keanu obtained a green card through his American stepfather and moved to Los Angeles, United States three years later.
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Keanu made further appearances on stage, including Brad Fraser's cult hit Wolfboy in Toronto.
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Keanu made his first motion picture appearances in Peter Markle's Youngblood, in which he played a goalkeeper, and in the low-budget romantic drama, Flying.
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Keanu 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.
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Keanu's other acting efforts included a supporting role in Dangerous Liaisons, which earned seven nominations at the 61st Academy Awards, winning three: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Production Design.
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Keanu 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.
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Keanu plays an undercover FBI agent tasked with investigating the identities of a group of bank robbers.
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Keanu starred in the action thriller Speed alongside Sandra Bullock and Dennis Hopper.
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Keanu next appeared in the romantic drama A Walk in the Clouds, which garnered mixed-to-negative reviews.
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Keanu plays a researcher of a green energy project, who has to go on the run when he is framed for murder.
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Keanu starred in the independent crime comedy Feeling Minnesota, with Vincent D'Onofrio and Cameron Diaz, which was described as "shoddily assembled, and fundamentally miscast" by Rotten Tomatoes.
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Keanu 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.
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Keanu agreed to a pay cut to enable Gene Hackman to co-star in the film.
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Keanu said that a friend forged his signature on a contract, which he could not prove; he appeared in the film to avoid legal action.
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Keanu co-starred with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and played Dr Julian Mercer in the film.
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Keanu next appeared in Thumbsucker, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005.
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Keanu played an undercover policeman who must clear his name after the death of another officer.
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Keanu portrayed Klaatu, an alien sent from outer space to try to change human behaviour or eradicate humans because of their environmental impact.
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Keanu interviewed filmmakers including James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, and Christopher Nolan; the feature investigated digital and photochemical film creation.
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Keanu played Hank, a lustful motel owner who appears in Jesse's nightmare.
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Keanu appeared in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run as a tumbleweed named Sage.
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Keanu was scheduled to film the sequels to The Matrix the following spring, but sought "peace and time", according to friend Bret Domrose of Dogstar.
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Keanu 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.
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Keanu has been described as a workaholic, charming and "excruciatingly shy".
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