Keanu Reeves

Keanu Charles Reeves (born on September 2, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon) is an Anglo/Canadian Hollywood film actor. Although currently working in the United States, Reeves has dual citizenship in both Canada and the UK, and is an avid ice hockey player/fan who was his high school team's MVP.

Trivia

Unlike many actors of today, Reeves is known to defer salaries if it means getting another actor for the film. He deferred his salary for The Devil's Advocate so Al Pacino could be cast, and The Replacements for Gene Hackman.

Related Topics:
The Devil's Advocate - Al Pacino - The Replacements - Gene Hackman

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Reeves once managed a pasta shop in Toronto. (Source: The Book of Useless Information, page 18, published 2002.)

Related Topics:
Pasta - Toronto

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He is reportedly fond of chess, motorcycles, ice hockey, and plays a ferocious game of ping-pong.

Related Topics:
Chess - Ping-pong

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When he received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, several ads were published congratulating Reeves on receiving his star, one of them was signed as Sandy B. as in Sandra Bullock his Speed Co-star, she congratulated him and expected him to do the same when she got hers... A few weeks later Sandra received her star and she got her one page congrat ad from "Neo" himself.

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Reeves has an unexplainable habit of working with fellow actors more than once:

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• Charlize Theron: The Devil's Advocate, Sweet November
• Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving: The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions
• Rachel Weisz: Chain Reaction, Constantine
• Sandra Bullock: Speed, and the upcoming Il Mare
• Tilda Swinton: Constantine, Thumbsucker
• Vincent D'Onofrio: Feeling Minnesota, Thumbsucker
• Winona Ryder: Dracula and the upcoming A Scanner Darkly
• Uma Thurman: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Dangerous Liaisons
• Patrick Swayze: Youngblood, Point Break
• Alex Winter: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, Freaked
• River Phoenix: My Own Private Idaho, I Love You to Death
• Lori Loughlin: The Brotherhood of Justice, The Night Before
• Delroy Lindo: The Devil's Advocate, Feeling Minnesota
• Fred Ward: The Prince of Pennsylvania, Chain Reaction
• Dennis Hopper: River's Edge, Speed

Is left handed but plays the bass guitar right handed.

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Loves punk rock bands such as The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, etc. In fact, Reeves filled in on bass for The Vandals, on a new years eve show, while bassist Joe Escalante was at a wedding, in 1992.

Related Topics:
Punk rock - The Ramones - The Sex Pistols - The Clash - The Vandals - Joe Escalante

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