Born Keanu Charl Reev on September 2, 1964 Beit, Lebanon, he was the son of Samuel Nowl Reev, Jr., an Amerin of Che-Hawaiian, English, Irish and Portugue scent, and Patricia Taylor, who hailed om England. His parents separated when Reev was three years of age, and Taylor, who worked as a stume signer, took their son wh her on var assignments Sydney, Atralia and New York Cy before settlg Toronto, Ontar. There, Reev' mother would marry and divorce three more hbands, while her son, raised primarily by grandparents and nanni, cycled through several Toronto high schools while nurturg an tert hockey. But rol theater productns nvced him to pursue a reer as an actor, and he soon logged appearanc lol televisn mercials and episodic seri. After makg his feature film but as a Quebeis goalie the Rob Lowe hockey drama, "Youngblood" (1986), Reev head south to Los Angel, where he found steady work var Amerin TV-movi and episodic programs. But after earng solid notic for a dramatic turn as a thoughtful teenager ught up a murr Tim Hunter's "The River's Edge" (1986), Reev graduated to featur, where his quiet tensy and exotic good looks ially mted him as a romantic juvenile lead or bised antihero films like "Dangero Liaisons" (1988) and "Permanent Rerd" (1988). But he showed an unexpected knack for edy wh his turn as a good-natured, if slow-wted teen travelg through time "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989), which led to a slew of rol as goofy but earnt young men Ron Howard's "Parenthood" (1989) and the Lawrence Kasn-penned "I Love You To Death" (1990). Reev proved to be almost too apt at the rol, which unrmed efforts to play more ser rol, like his surfg FBI agent Kathryn Bigelow's "Pot Break" (1991), Englishman Jonathan Harker "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992) for Francis Ford Coppola, and a Shakpearean villa Kenh Branagh's "Much Ado About Nothg" (1993), for which he was the subject of much cril srn. But a turn as a gay htler G Van Sant's "My Own Private Idaho" (1992) silenced a few crics, as did the box office succs of "Speed" (1994), wh Reev as a stalwart police officer helpg Sandra Bullock pilot a naway b. To the surprise of many dtry observers, Reev turned down the evable sequel to "Speed" favor of tourg wh his band, Dogstar, and appearg a 1995 productn of "Hamlet" Wnipeg. When he returned to Hollywood, Reev ntued to keep his distance om tradnal stud fare, preferrg stead to vote his energi to arthoe efforts like "A Walk the Clouds" (1995) for Alfonso Ar and Bernardo Bertolucci's "Ltle Buddha" (1995), which st him as the adult Buddha. Neher of the efforts, or subsequent projects like "Feelg Mnota" (1996), found much support at the box office, and he was a supportg player two of his most succsful projects of this perd - "The Devil's Advote" (1997), wh Al Paco, and "The Replacements" (2000), wh Gene Hackman. A personal tragedy the loss of a child wh longtime signifint other Jennifer Syme, who would herself pass away two years later, add a layer of emotnal loss to his downward spiralg fortun, but 1999, he rebound as Neo, a hacker who disvers a secret world wh puter technology "The Matrix." An unqualified h for s remarkable special effects and imagative scriptg, was followed by two blockbter sequels ("The Matrix Reload" and "The Matrix Revolutns," both 2003), and wh the succs of Nancy Meyers' edy "Somethg's Gotta Give" (2003), wh Reev as Jack Nicholson's romantic rival for Diane Keaton, and "Constante" (2005), wh Reev as DC Comics' mon hunter, he had returned as a bankable box office star. Reev soon settled to a breathls schle of stud and pennt efforts, rangg om a remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (2008) and "The Lake Hoe" (2008), which rned him wh "Speed" star Sandra Bullock, to Richard Lklater's animated adaptatn of Philip K. Dick's "A Snner Darkly" (2006) and the martial arts actner "The 47 Ron" (2013). He also branched out to embrace a variety of projects, om a picture book for grown-ups to producg the digal filmmakg documentary "Si by Si" (2011) and makg his directorial but wh "Man of Tai Chi" (2013). The U.S.-Che -productn, spired part by the life of Reev' iend, stuntman Tiger Chen, took five years to plete, which Reev fund through steady work dozens of featur. The most unexpectedly succsful of the was "John Wick" (2015), directed by stunt man Chad Stahelski, who was also Reev' stunt double. The film, an ultra-vlent tribute to noir and martial arts films, starred Reev as a former hman who waged war on the Rsian gangster that stole his r and killed his dog. Its stylistic excs drew posive reviews and $88 ln at the box office, and was followed by two more h sequels, "John Wick: Chapter 2" (2017) and "John Wick: Chapter 3-Parabellum" (2019). Between the efforts, Reev llaborated wh director Nicholas Wdg Refn on his surreal "Neon Demon" (2016), gave an amg meo as an exaggerated versn of himself the Netflix feature "Always Be My Maybe" (2019) and lent his voice to a Canadian stunt rir toy "Toy Story 4" (2019).
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KEANU REEV IS GAY?
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