Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves ended a 2019 late-night interview with a single sentence about death: “I know that the ones who love us will miss us.” The studio audience reacted emotionally, and host Stephen Colbert shook his hand before closing the show.
Reeves, a Canadian actor and musician, was born in Beirut on the 2nd of September 1964. His screen career now spans four decades. In 2020, The New York Times placed him at number four on its list of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century. In 2022, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. The chapters ahead follow his unsettled upbringing, the films that built and strained his career, and the reputation he has earned away from the cameras. They also ask why audiences keep rooting for him.
Patricia Taylor, an English costume designer and performer from Essex, was working in Beirut when she met Samuel Nowlin Reeves Jr., an American from Hawaii. His own heritage is Native Hawaiian, Chinese, English and Portuguese. They divorced in 1966, when their son was young, and Keanu last saw his father on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i at the age of thirteen.
Sydney, Australia, became the family's next home, followed by New York City. There, in 1970, Patricia married the Broadway and Hollywood director Paul Aaron. The couple moved on to Toronto and divorced in 1971. Aaron stayed close to the boy, offered advice, and recommended him for a job at the Hedgerow Theatre in Pennsylvania. At nine, Reeves took part in a theatre production of Damn Yankees.
Patricia's 1976 marriage to the rock music promoter Robert Miller ended in divorce in 1980. Keanu and his sisters grew up mainly in Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood, with a nanny often looking after them. He watched British comedies such as The Two Ronnies, and his mother taught him English manners that he still keeps. His grandmother's Chinese heritage filled the household with Chinese art, furniture and cooking.
The Etobicoke School of the Arts expelled Reeves, one of four high schools he attended. He called himself a “private kid” and said he was “just a little too rambunctious and shot my mouth off once too often.” He also has dyslexia, and he once said, “Because I had trouble reading, I wasn't a good student.”
Hockey offered a different path at De La Salle College, where Reeves was a successful goalkeeper. He hoped to reach the Canadian Olympic team and was once considered an OHL prospect, until injury ended that plan. At fifteen he decided to become an actor. He then moved to Avondale Secondary Alternative School, which let him study while working, and he dropped out at seventeen. Through his American stepfather he obtained a green card, and he moved to Los Angeles three years later. He still holds only Canadian citizenship. Waiting for him there were agents who thought his first name was a problem.
In 1984, Reeves reported for the CBC youth program Going Great and made his acting debut in an episode of Hangin' In. A Coca-Cola commercial in 1983 and the National Film Board short One Step Away came around the same time. In 1985 he played Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet at the Leah Posluns Theatre in North York, Ontario.
Agents in the mid-1980s told him that Keanu was “too ethnic.” For a short time he auditioned as “K. C.” or “Casey” Reeves before returning to his own name.
Youngblood, released in 1986, gave him his first feature role, as a goalkeeper. River's Edge, a crime drama loosely based on a 1981 murder, premiered the same year at the Toronto International Film Festival. Janet Maslin of The New York Times found the young cast “natural and credible” and Reeves “affecting and sympathetic.”
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, in 1989, cast him as a slacker who travels through time with a friend, played by Alex Winter, to collect historical figures for a school presentation. It grossed $40.5 million worldwide, and Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 79% approval rating. A sequel, Bogus Journey, followed in 1991.
That same year marked a turn toward adult parts. In My Own Private Idaho, written by Gus Van Sant and loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry plays, Reeves played a street hustler opposite River Phoenix. It premiered at the 48th Venice International Film Festival. Point Break followed, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, with Reeves as an undercover FBI agent chasing a gang of bank robbers. He and his co-stars took surfing lessons from the professional Dennis Jarvis in Hawaii, and Reeves had never surfed before. The film earned $83.5 million.
Bram Stoker's Dracula, in 1992, placed him in Francis Ford Coppola's Gothic horror as Jonathan Harker, beside Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins. The film grossed $215.8 million worldwide, but Reeves's English accent drew ridicule. In a 2015 interview, Coppola said, “Reeves tried so hard … He wanted to do it perfectly and in trying to do it perfectly it came off as stilted.”
Speed, released on the 10th of June 1994, cast him as police officer Jack Traven, who must keep a bus above 50 mph to stop it exploding. Jan de Bont, making his directorial debut, chose Reeves after being impressed by Point Break. Reeves shaved his head and spent two months in the gym. During production, his friend River Phoenix died, and the schedule was adjusted so Reeves could mourn. The film grossed $350 million on a $30 million budget. Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune called Reeves “absolutely charismatic,” and the film won two Academy Awards in 1995, for Best Sound Editing and Best Sound.
Johnny Mnemonic, from 1995, adapted a 1981 short story by William Gibson and was directed by the artist Robert Longo. Reeves played a courier with a cybernetic brain implant, in a story set in 2021. Reviews were mostly negative, and critics thought he was “woefully miscast.” Roger Ebert still granted the film “a kind of idiotic grandeur.”
That same year, Reeves turned to the stage and played Prince Hamlet at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg. Roger Lewis of The Sunday Times ranked him among the top three Hamlets he had seen, “for a simple reason: he is Hamlet.”
Chain Reaction, in 1996, holds a 16% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Feeling Minnesota, with Vincent D'Onofrio and Cameron Diaz, was dismissed as “shoddily assembled, and fundamentally miscast.” The Last Time I Committed Suicide, based on a 1950 letter from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac, split critics. Paul Tatara of CNN called Reeves “void of talent,” while Empire magazine said he gave “the nearest thing to a performance in his career.”
In 1997, Reeves turned down Speed 2: Cruise Control despite an offer of a $12 million salary. By his account, 20th Century Fox then cut ties with him for a decade. The Devil's Advocate, that same year, paired him with Al Pacino and Charlize Theron as a young lawyer who discovers his New York firm is owned by a devil. Reeves accepted a pay cut of several million dollars so the studio could afford Pacino. Critic James Berardinelli found the film “highly enjoyable” and Reeves's work “a solid job.” Waiting just ahead was a script from the Wachowskis.
Thomas Anderson, a computer programmer who hacks under the alias “Neo,” discovers that humanity lives inside a simulated reality built by intelligent machines. Reeves played him in The Matrix in 1999, a film written and directed by the Wachowskis. He prepared by reading Kevin Kelly's Out of Control and Dylan Evans's ideas on evolutionary psychology. The principal cast spent months training with the martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping.
The film was a box office success, and several critics ranked it among the best science fiction films ever made. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called it a “wildly cinematic futuristic thriller.” Maslin praised Reeves as a “strikingly chic Prada model of an action hero.” It won Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Visual Effects and Best Sound.
Rather than chase another blockbuster, Reeves chose the 2000 sports comedy The Replacements and took a pay cut so Gene Hackman could co-star. He also appeared in The Watcher, playing a serial killer who stalks a retired FBI agent, though he said he did not want to. A friend, he said, forged his signature on a contract. He could not prove it, and he acted in the film to avoid legal action. Critics panned it.
The sequels arrived in 2003. The Matrix Reloaded in May and The Matrix Revolutions in November were shot back-to-back, mainly at Fox Studios in Australia. Reloaded grossed $739 million worldwide. Revolutions met a mixed reception and grossed $427 million. For reprising Neo, Reeves was the highest-paid actor for a single production until 2016. That year, The Hollywood Reporter calculated that the franchise had earned him $250 million.
A rumour held that Reeves gave between $35 million and $125 million of his Matrix earnings to the effects and makeup crews. The truth is smaller. He gave up his contractual share of the sequels' profits in exchange for a larger special effects budget. On set, he heard that a crew member was having family trouble and gave him $20,000. For the twelve-person stunt team on Reloaded, he bought each member a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. He said he wanted “to give a bigger thank-you to all these guys who helped me make this.”
Neo called him back in December 2021 for The Matrix Resurrections, with Carrie-Anne Moss returning as Trinity. It was a box office disappointment.
Constantine, in 2005, cast Reeves as John Constantine, an occult detective who can perceive and talk to half-angels and half-demons. It grossed $230 million on a $100 million budget, a respectable hit with mixed-to-positive reviews. That year he also appeared in Thumbsucker, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
In 2006, Richard Linklater's animated A Scanner Darkly, based on a 1977 novel by Philip K. Dick, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Reeves played the undercover agent Bob Arctor in a dystopia of heavy police surveillance. It failed at the box office but won generally favourable reviews. The Lake House then reunited him with Sandra Bullock. Mark Kermode of The Guardian joked, “The last time Bullock and Reeves were together on screen the result was Speed. This should have been entitled Stop.”
Street Kings, in 2008, earned a moderate $66 million worldwide. In The Day the Earth Stood Still, a loose adaptation of a 1951 film, he played the alien Klaatu. Critics were largely unimpressed by both.
In 2011, Reeves wrote an adult picture book, Ode to Happiness, with illustrations by Alexandra Grant. A year later he co-produced and appeared in Side by Side, a documentary comparing digital and photochemical filmmaking. For it he interviewed James Cameron, Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan.
Man of Tai Chi, in 2013, was Reeves's own directorial debut. The multilingual film follows a young man drawn into an underground fight club and was partly inspired by his friend Tiger Chen. Shooting took place in China and Hong Kong, with Yuen Woo-ping assisting. John Woo praised it. At the box office it earned only $5.5 million against a $25 million budget. The fantasy 47 Ronin, the same year, also flopped.
John Wick, in 2014, changed that run of luck. Directed by Chad Stahelski, it cast Reeves as a retired hitman seeking vengeance and was filmed around New York City. It reached American cinemas on the 24th of October and grossed $86 million worldwide. Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote that he is “always more comfortable in roles that demand cool over hot, attitude over emotion.”
Chapter 2, in 2017, grossed $171.5 million, more than its predecessor. Chapter 3, subtitled Parabellum, arrived in 2019 with Halle Berry among the new cast. Chapter 4, in 2023, earned critical acclaim, with several reviewers placing it among the greatest action films ever made.
Toy Story 4, in 2019, gave him the voice of Duke Caboom. In 2020 he played Johnny Silverhand in the video game Cyberpunk 2077, and he returned for its expansion Phantom Liberty in 2023. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 reached cinemas on the 20th of December 2024 with Reeves voicing Shadow the Hedgehog. In September 2025 he made his Broadway debut in Waiting for Godot, directed by Jamie Lloyd, opposite his Bill & Ted co-star Alex Winter.
Dogstar took shape in 1991, when Reeves formed the alternative rock band with Robert Mailhouse, Gregg Miller and Bret Domrose. He played bass. The band released two albums in its first decade, Our Little Visionary in 1996 and Happy Ending in 2000. By 2002 it had disbanded. Reeves then spent a year in Becky, a band founded by Mailhouse, and quit in 2005, citing a lack of interest in a serious music career.
The pandemic revived Dogstar. Recording began at the start of COVID-19 and produced Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees in 2023. After a first performance in 20 years at the BottleRock Napa Valley festival, the band set off on a 25-date tour of North America and Japan, opening on the 10th of August in Hermosa Beach, California. A fourth album, All In Now, came out on the 29th of May 2026.
BRZRKR, a comic series Reeves co-wrote, ran in three volumes from March 2021 to October 2023. Issue #1 sold over 615,000 copies, the top-selling single issue since Star Wars #1 in 2015. On the 23rd of July 2024 he published a novel version, The Book of Elsewhere, written with China Miéville. A Netflix film adaptation, written by Mattson Tomlin, is in development, with Reeves open to directing. An anime series from Production I.G is planned to follow.
In 2011, Reeves, an avid motorcyclist, co-founded ARCH Motorcycle Company with Gard Hollinger to build custom bikes. Riding has cost him. In 1988 he was injured in a crash in Topanga and had to undergo a splenectomy. In 1996 he was hurt again when he swerved to avoid a car pulling out from the curb. In October 2024 he made his motorsport debut in the Toyota GR Cup North America at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, finishing 25th and 24th in the two races.
His business partners include Stephen Hamel, with whom he co-founded the production company Company Films. In 2017 he joined Jessica Fleischmann and Alexandra Grant to found the book publisher X Artists' Books. His second book with Grant is Shadows, for which he supplied text to her photographs and art.
When his sister battled leukemia, Reeves founded a private cancer foundation that aids children's hospitals and funds research. He told an interviewer in 2009 that he does not like to attach his name to it. In June 2020 he volunteered for Camp Rainbow Gold, an Idaho children's cancer charity. He once said, “Money is the last thing I think about. I could live on what I have already made for the next few centuries.”
In March 2023, a training uniform signed by Reeves, Stahelski and the jiu-jitsu instructor Dave Camarillo was auctioned for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. After John Wick: Chapter 4, Reeves gave his personal stunt team engraved Rolex Submariner watches. He bought the larger stunt crews T-shirts showing how many times each extra had “died” in the film. In 2024 he signed a one-day contract with the Windsor Spitfires, and the items he signed were auctioned for the Canadian Mental Health Association of Windsor-Essex.
In 1998, Reeves met Jennifer Syme, an assistant to the director David Lynch, at a party thrown for Dogstar. On the 24th of December 1999, Syme gave birth, eight months into her pregnancy, to the couple's stillborn daughter. They separated several weeks later but reconciled. Syme died on the 2nd of April 2001, when her vehicle collided with parked cars on Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles. Reeves was a pallbearer, and she was buried beside their daughter. He was due to film the Matrix sequels the following spring and, according to Bret Domrose, sought “peace and time.”
Winona Ryder, his Dracula co-star, remains a close friend. After filming a wedding scene with a Romanian priest, they still call each other “husband and wife” in private. In 2009, Reeves met the artist Alexandra Grant at a dinner party. They went on to make books together and made their relationship public in November 2019.
Little Buddha, in 1993, left a lasting mark on him. Reeves said that playing an innocent prince who first glimpses old age, sickness and death hit him, adding, “That lesson has never left me.” He does not formally practise Buddhism, but he says it taught him about feelings, impermanence and understanding other people. Of his beliefs in general he says they are “personal and private,” though he calls himself “very spiritual.” In 2024 he said, “I'm thinking about death all the time. That's a good thing.” Science communicator Hank Green ended his comedy special about fighting Hodgkin's lymphoma with a line inspired by Reeves's late-night answer: “Either way, what comes next is going to be beautiful.”
In a 2005 Time article, Lev Grossman called Reeves “Hollywood's ultimate introvert.” Erwin Stoff, his agent and manager since Reeves was sixteen, calls him “a really private person.” After a year of shooting Constantine with him, Shia LaBeouf said he did not really know him. Laurence Fishburne said in 2023 that Reeves is “much kinder than people say he is.” Aziz Ansari joked that Reeves is “actually an angel” who has been pretending to be human for his other roles.
In 2010, photographs of Reeves sitting glumly on a park bench became the “Sad Keanu” meme, and a fan page declared the 15th of June “Cheer-up Keanu Day.” Reeves later said, “Man, I was eating a sandwich.” In March 2019, his United Airlines flight to Burbank was grounded in Bakersfield. He boarded a travel van with the other passengers, read them fun facts about the town from his phone, and shared 1950s country music he found on YouTube. In July 2019, he signed a banner reading “You're Breathtaking” at a house he passed while filming Bill & Ted Face the Music.
A popular meme claims that Reeves is secretly immortal and has lived as figures such as Charlemagne. When Jimmy Fallon asked about it in 2017, Reeves said he shares a likeness with Charlemagne in the eyes, nose, mustache, beard, cheekbones and forehead. In 2022, his recitation of the Beat poem “Pull My Daisy” at a benefit for Tibet House US drew a negative reaction on Chinese social media, and his films were banned from streaming platforms there, including iQiyi, Tencent Video and Youku. In 2023, a lipopeptide, a substance deadly to fungi, was named keanumycin in his honour.
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When and where was Keanu Reeves born?
Keanu Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon, on the 2nd of September 1964. He was raised mainly in the Yorkville neighbourhood of Toronto.
Which films made Keanu Reeves famous?
Keanu Reeves became known through Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure in 1989, then Point Break and Speed. He reached greater stardom as Neo in The Matrix in 1999 and returned to action in John Wick in 2014.
What happened when Keanu Reeves turned down Speed 2: Cruise Control?
Keanu Reeves turned down Speed 2: Cruise Control in 1997 despite a $12 million salary offer. By his account, 20th Century Fox cut ties with him for a decade afterward.
Is Keanu Reeves in a band?
Keanu Reeves plays bass in the alternative rock band Dogstar, which he formed in 1991. Dogstar released Our Little Visionary in 1996, Happy Ending in 2000, Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees in 2023, and All In Now on the 29th of May 2026.
What is BRZRKR, the project co-created by Keanu Reeves?
BRZRKR is a franchise Keanu Reeves co-wrote, beginning with a comic series published by Boom! Studios from March 2021 to October 2023. Issue #1 sold over 615,000 copies, and a novel, The Book of Elsewhere, followed in July 2024.
Did Keanu Reeves really give away his Matrix earnings?
The rumour that Keanu Reeves gave away $35 million to $125 million of his Matrix earnings has been significantly embellished. He gave up his contractual share of the sequels' profits for a larger special effects budget and bought Harley-Davidson motorcycles for the twelve-person stunt team on The Matrix Reloaded.
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- 194The Matrix Resurrections (2021)Jeremy Aspinall
- 195MagazineSomething Wick-ed this way comes in John Wick: Chapter 4Leah Greenblatt — March 13, 2023
- 196'John Wick: Chapter 4' Review: The Best Action Blockbuster Since 'Fury Road'Raphael Motamayor — March 14, 2023
- 197REVIEW: "John Wick: Chapter 4" is what all action movies should beEvan Dondlinger — March 30, 2023
- 198John Wick: Chapter 4 Isn't Just Amazing, it's One of The Best Action Movies Ever MadeMichael Walsh — March 15, 2023
- 199Phantom Liberty is the 'only planned expansion' for Cyberpunk 2077Toussaint Egan — September 7, 2022
- 200BookBRZRKR Vol. 3Keanu Reeves et al. — BOOM! Studios — October 10, 2023
- 201Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR #1 Sells Over 615,000 Copies To Comic StoresRich Johnston — February 4, 2021
- 202BRZRKR #1 Is the Best Selling Comic Since Marvel's Star Wars #1 in 2015Collier Jennings — February 6, 2021
- 203MagazineThe Return of Dogstar: Why Keanu Reeves' Rock Trio Was ResurrectedJason Lipshutz — May 26, 2023
- 204Keanu Reeves shakes off nerves at BottleRock for Dogstar's first concert in more than 20 yearsAidin Vaziri — May 28, 2023
- 205Keanu Reeves Reunites With Band Dogstar for First Headlining Show in 20 Years as Group Announces New AlbumKirsten Chuba — July 19, 2023
- 206Keanu Reeves's band, Dogstar, announces new album and tourJuly 19, 2023
- 207Dogstar 2023 Tour Dates, Concerts & TicketsAli Al-Sardar — October 12, 2023
- 209Look At How Happy Keanu Reeves Looks In New 'Ride With Norman Reedus' FootageKimberley Ricci — September 7, 2023
- 210These Videos Of Keanu Reeves And Norman Reedus Hanging Out Can Instantly Put Me In A Good MoodNick Venable — October 23, 2023
- 211NewsDisney+ F1 documentary: Brawn release date, cast and historyNovember 7, 2023
- 212Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story review – Keanu Reeves is adorableJack Seale — November 15, 2023
- 213BRZRKR: Keanu Reeves' Immortal Warrior Returns in Fallen EmpireAugust 23, 2023
- 214Netflix Wins $8.8 Million in Fight Over Planned TV SeriesCarreyrou John — May 31, 2024
- 215Keanu Reeves' band Dogstar announces summer 2024 tour for their first album in 20 yearsKiMi Robinson — June 4, 2024
- 216Let Keanu Reeves punch and shoot his way onto your summer reading listJoshua Rivera — May 30, 2024
- 217News'I wanted to do pulpy, hyper-violent action': Keanu Reeves on his novel with China Miéville and the afterlife of The MatrixSam Leith — July 20, 2024
- 218Get a First Look at BRZRKR: A Faceful Of Bullets #1June 28, 2024
- 219Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR taps Jason Aaron to write standalone Western storyTiffany Babb — February 22, 2024
- 220Keanu Reeves Returns to BRZRKR in The Lost Book of BJesse Schedeen — May 23, 2024
- 221'Ancient Apocalypse' Season 2 Confirmed By Netflix With Keanu Reeves Set To FeatureMax Goldbart — September 18, 2024
- 222NewsKeanu Reeves makes professional auto racing debut at Indianapolis Motor SpeedwayAlli Rosenbloom — CNN — October 6, 2024
- 223NewsWeekend report: Keanu Reeves races the Toyota GR Cup season finaleMichael Banovsky — October 6, 2024
- 224Secret Level Trailer Leaks, Revealing Main CastJack Coleman — Valnet — October 14, 2024
- 225Keanu Reeves Will Headline an Upcoming Sonic x Shadow Generations DLC - State of PlayAlex Stedman — September 24, 2024
- 226Keanu Reeves Joins 'Sonic 3' as ShadowAaron Couch et al. — April 15, 2024
- 227Severance Season 2 Features A Secret Cameo From A Hollywood A-ListerRick Stevenson — January 16, 2025
- 228Keanu Reeves Returns as John Wick in Ballerina Spinoff ExclusiveLovitt Maggie — November 8, 2022
- 229'Ballerina' Dances Into Summer 2025 As 'The Crow' Swoops Into John Wick Spinoff's June 2024 DateAnthony D'Alessandro — February 21, 2024
- 230Seth Rogen, Keanu Reeves to Star in Aziz Ansari Movie 'Good Fortune'Mia Galuppo — April 18, 2023
- 231Keanu Reeves Is the Stealth MVP of 'Good Fortune'David Fear — 2025-10-17
- 232NewsKeanu Reeves to make Broadway debut opposite Bill & Ted co-star Alex WinterBenjamin Lee — August 1, 2024
- 233Apple Lands Jonah Hill's Keanu Reeves-Led Dark Comedy OutcomeMatt Grobar — April 5, 2023
- 234Jonah Hill's Outcome Starring Keanu Reeves Begins Filming in LA in MarchSumith Prasad — January 26, 2024
- 235Dogstar Share New Single Joy From Upcoming Album All In NowPaul Cashmere — April 13, 2026
- 236Keanu Reeves' Duke Caboom Return Revealed In New Toy Story 5 FootageAdam Bentz — 2026-04-17
- 237Press releaseDisney and Pixar Debut New 'Toy Story 5' Trailer and PosterWalt Disney Studios — 2026-02-19
- 239Keanu Reeves Teaming With Fisher Stevens To Produce Doc On Kickboxer Benny "The Jet" UrquidezMatt Grobar — March 28, 2024
- 240Keanu Reeves to Star in and Produce 'Brzrkr' Live-Action Film and Anime Series for NetflixAngelique Jackson — March 22, 2021
- 241Keanu Reeves May Direct Movie Adaptation Of His Own Comic 'BRZRKR' ExclusiveMarco Vito Oddo — Valnet Inc. — October 4, 2022
- 242Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR Anime Series Animated by Production I.G With 2 Seasons PlannedEgan Loo — July 22, 2022
- 243‘John Wick 5’ Set With Keanu Reeves and Director Chad StahelskiRyan Gajewski — 2025-04-01
- 244Lionsgate Loading Up On ‘John Wick’ Franchise; Sets Fifth Movie With Keanu Reeves & Chad Stahelski ReturningAnthony D'Alessandro — 2025-04-01
- 245'John Wick 4' Sequel Series From Keanu Reeves & Chad Stahelski Heats Up TV MarketplaceNellie Andreeva — August 5, 2024
- 246Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock Reteam for Untitled Amazon MGM Romantic Thriller (Exclusive)Borys Kit — 2025-05-02
- 247'Sonic the Hedgehog 4' Full Cast Revealed: Keanu Reeves and Idris Elba Returning Alongside Newcomers Ben Kingsley, Nick Offerman and MoreAngelique Jackson — March 19, 2026
- 248Hollyweird: The Strange, Tragic Death of Jennifer SymeTrey Taylor — September 20, 2018
- 249VH1.com : News : Marilyn Manson Accused Of Contributing To Friend's DeathNovember 17, 2007
- 250NewsToo Much Sorrow. Keanu Reeves Mourns His Former Girlfriend, Who Never Recovered from the Loss of Their ChildKaren S. Schneider — April 23, 2001
- 251NewsFilm Notes: Keanu Reeves' Girlfriend KilledABC News — April 5, 2001
- 252Keanu Grieves for His Soul Mate, Jennifer.Sean Daly — April 23, 2001
- 253NewsNew love in Keanu's life.May 21, 2000
- 254NewsKeanu Reeves, John Wick's zen master with a gift for violenceAndrew Purcell — November 2, 2014
- 256NewsKeanu Reeves and Ex China Chow Spotted 'Flirting' – Right Next to BF Billy IdolKaitlin Cubria — MSN Entertainment — May 19, 2019
- 257NewsChina Chow, With a Look of Her Own MakingBob Morris — December 20, 2011
- 259NewsHow Keanu Reeves cheered upSteve Rose — June 15, 2011
- 260Who is Keanu Reeves' girlfriend Alexandra Grant?Megan Hills — June 24, 2020
- 261Interview with Constantine actor, Keanu ReevesStaci Layne Wilson — February 14, 2005
- 262NewsKeanu Reeves on 'Man of Tai Chi,' 'Bill & Ted' & 'Point Break'Marlow Stern — September 13, 2013
- 263Keanu Reeves on the small screenMandala Publications — June 2001
- 264NewsKeanu Reeves: I think about death all the timeNoor Nanji et al. — July 22, 2024
- 265The Esquire Interview: Keanu ReevesJohnny Davis — February 10, 2017
- 267Happy 50th Birthday, Keanu ReevesSeptember 2, 2014
- 268Keanu Reeves helps fund children hospitals but doesn't attach name to donationsKelly Jenkins — September 19, 2020
- 269All Hail Keanu Reeves, One of Hollywood's Very Best MenEmma Specter — January 5, 2022
- 270Keanu Reeves to Offer 15-Min Private Date for Idaho Children's Cancer Charity Hollywood ReporterChris Gardner — June 15, 2020
- 271100 Influential Celebrities in Oncology: The 2023 EditionNovember 5, 2023
- 273Keanu Reeves Did Not Give Away $80 Million of His 'Matrix' EarningsJanuary 5, 2015
- 274NewsAction Star Keanu Reeves Wants to Play the FieldTom King — September 7, 2001
- 275Here's Proof That Keanu Reeves Is The Nicest Human BeingDaisy Hall — August 30, 2023
- 27610 Keanu Reeves Stories That Prove He's The Nicest Guy In HollywoodSeth Flatau — Valnet Inc. — July 13, 2023
- 278Exclusive Signed John Wick: Chapter 4 Gi Goes On Auction For CharityKian Rogers — March 22, 2023
- 279Keanu Reeves signs 1-day contract with OHL's Windsor SpitfiresAnna Kulesa — August 22, 2024
- 280Vulture Tells Keanu Reeves About 'Sad Keanu' – and He Approves!Logan Hill — October 4, 2010
- 281Keanu Reeves' latest production: line of $78,000 motorcyclesCharles Fleming — November 14, 2014
- 282NewsKeanu Reeves is a publisher of the new L.A. press X Artists' BooksAgatha French — July 19, 2017
- 283NewsKeanu Reeves Is Doing a New Thing: Publishing BooksMax Lakin — August 16, 2018
- 284NewsKeanu Reeves stars in the art book 'Shadows' by L.A. artist Alexandra GrantKavita Daswani — February 24, 2016
- 285MagazineKeanu Reeves: The Man Who Isn't ThereLev Grossman — February 14, 2005
- 286Keanu Reeves And Longtime Manager Erwin Stoff Hit Bumpy Road: Actor Almost Left 3 Arts But Instead Others There Repping HimNikki Finke — October 25, 2012
- 287Keanu Reeves reacts to being declared the internet's boyfriendMeredith Clark — March 16, 2023
- 288Aziz Ansari Confirms Keanu Reeves Fractured Knee While in His Trailer Amid Filming 'Good Fortune'Chris Gardner — April 10, 2024
- 289Shogun's Hiroyuki Sanada Says John Wick Costar Keanu Reeves Is 'Hard on Himself' but 'Very Kind to Others'J.P. Mangalindan — May 15, 2024
- 290MagazineHelp Cheer Up Keanu ReevesClaire Suddath — June 15, 2010
- 291Keanu Reeves on Sad Keanu: "I Was Hungry!"December 14, 2021
- 292MagazineWhy Keanu Reeves Has Always Been the Internet's Soul MateCady Lang — July 19, 2019
- 293Keanu Reeves: The mystery of the internet's boyfriendPeggy Drexel — June 13, 2019
- 294Keanu Reeves Is Whatever You Want Him to BeLaura Holson — July 3, 2019
- 295Keanu Reeves, explainedAja Romano — August 16, 2019
- 296MagazineMaster of the Fan Encounter Keanu Reeves Has Pulled the Most Keanu Reeves Move ImaginableAshley Hoffman — July 22, 2019
- 297Does Pic Show Keanu Eating Ice Cream at a Movie Theater?Bethania Palma — June 30, 2021
- 298Keanu Reeves Gets On Bus With Stranded Passengers And He's Still The HeroRon Dicker — March 26, 2019
- 299MagazineKeanu Reeves Was the Best Companion on a Bus Ride With a Bunch of Stranded Plane PassengersCady Lang — March 25, 2019
- 300MagazineKeanu Reeves Shares a Surprisingly Profound Answer When Asked What Happens When We DieMaria Pasquini — May 13, 2019
- 301MagazineKeanu Reeves Told Stephen Colbert What Happens When We DieRiver Donaghey — May 13, 2019
- 302MagazineKeanu Reeves Is Too Good for This WorldNaomi Fry — June 3, 2019
- 303MagazineHow Keanu Reeves Inspired Hank Green to Change the Punchline of His 'Pissing Out Cancer' Dropout Comedy SpecialJennifer Maas — June 21, 2024
- 304Keanu Reeves' most excellent surprise for one fan is 'breathtaking' and once again gifts the internetScottie Andrew et al. — July 20, 2019
- 305Keanu Reeves saw a fan left an adorable sign for him on his way to set, and the actor jumped out of the car to autograph itLibby Torres — July 18, 2019
- 306MagazineForbes Celebrity 100 20012001
- 307MagazineForbes Celebrity 100 20022002
- 308Keanu ReevesHollywood Walk of Fame
- 309MagazineDirector – Hollywood Salaries 2016: Who Got Raises (and Who Didn't), From Movie Stars to ShowrunnersJoe Bel Bruno — September 26, 2016
- 310NewsThe 25 greatest actors of the 21st century (so far)Manohla Dargis et al. — November 25, 2020
- 311Keanu Reeves performs "Pull My Daisy" on the 35th Annual Tibet House Benefit Concert March 3, 2022Tibet House US — March 9, 2022
- 312NewsKeanu Reeves axed by Chinese video platforms after Tibet concertMarch 25, 2022
- 313Keanu Reeves Hit With Backlash From Chinese Nationalists Over Tibet Benefit ConcertPatrick Brzeski — January 28, 2022
- 314China streamers scrub Keanu Reeves titles over his support for TibetRebecca Davis — March 24, 2022
- 315Keanu Reeves Movies Reportedly Pulled Off Streaming Platforms in China Over His Tibet SupportZack Sharf — March 24, 2022
- 316Is Keanu Reeves Immortal? We Asked the Only ExpertRebecca Alter — September 2, 2020
- 317MagazineKeanu Reeves Addresses Those Immortality Rumors (Video)Carli Velocci — June 24, 2017
- 318MagazineKeanu Reeves Has a Priceless Reaction to the 'Keanu Reeves Is Immortal' MemeJose Martinez — June 29, 2017
- 319MagazineKeanu Reeves Receives a Hero's Welcome — and a Marriage Proposal — at 'John Wick: Chapter 4' SXSW PremiereAdam B. Vary — March 13, 2023
- 320This Website Plays Every Keanu Reeves 'Whoa' in Movie HistoryLucas Ropek — March 27, 2024
- 321MagazineKeanu Reeves is on the 2022 Time 100 ListMay 23, 2022
- 323NewsThe Matrix shines at MTV AwardsJune 5, 2000
- 325Watch the Saturn Awards Live OnlineAdam Chitwood — September 14, 2019
- 326Movie of 2019 – People's Choice Awards: 'Avengers: Endgame' Named Best MovieKimberly Nordyke et al. — November 10, 2019
- 327PEOPLE Editorial Director Jess Cagle Finally Picks a Sexiest Man Alive for 1994Tierney McAfee — November 18, 2015
- 328Is Keanu Reeves The Biggest Martial Arts Movie Star In The World?Marc Zirogiannis — KYPA USA — September 13, 2021
- 329Keanu Reeves, Jung Kook, Hayao Miyazaki Among Gold House's A100 HonoreesJack Dunn et al. — May 1, 2024
- 330Keanu Reeves Surprised With Comic-Con Award for His Contributions to Movies, TV, Comics, and Books: SDCC 2024Kat Bailey — July 27, 2024
- 331BookGay Fandom and Crossover Stardom: James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu ReevesMichael DeAngelis — Duke University Press — 2001
- 332BookKeanu Reeves: An Excellent AdventureBrian J. Robb — Plexus — 1997
- 333NewsA Man of Many FacesSoh Chin Ong — May 15, 2003
- 334NewsPondering the mysterious Keanu ReevesCNN — November 5, 2003
- 335Seven magazine interview with Keanu ReevesCole Smithey