Interesting stories from the life of Hollywood film star Keanu Reeves

I'm sure you've heard of such a distinguished actor and present professional of his business by name Keanu Reeves. Many friends, acquaintances and just people around him say that Keanu is a man with a capital C. His character contains a best featuresthat could ever be in a person with a great and kind soul.

Often journalists, editors and media personnel describe Keanu as a talented actor with a difficult, one might even say unhappy fate. And it's true. This attractive and charismatic man has experienced in his life a lot of both good and bad moments, which imposed their strokes and imprints on the soul of Keanu. Today we will consider the brightest moments in the biography of the Hollywood actor and give them a brief description.

Keanu Reeves childhood and adolescence facts : family, school, hobbies

• It is known that Keanu's father mixed a lot of different nationalities among them: Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, English, Irish and even French. And his exotic name, the future movie star received in honour of his Hawaiian grandfather, which means "cool wind from the uplands".
• Family Keanu Reeves constantly changed their place of residence. More often the moves were connected with the work of the boy's mother - she was a dancer.
• When Keanu was three years old, the father and head of the family left the family. The boy's mother Patricia decided to leave her husband, as the latter was hard hooked on drugs. The woman chose happiness and the future of her children.
• After the family moved to Toronto, the mother Patricia left the profession of dancer and began to master a new - design work, through which the young Keanu met Alice Cooper.
• It is known that Alice Cooper's music studio was just opposite the house of Keanu himself. Therefore, the boy from an early age became interested in music, especially in the style of rock.
• When Keanu was thirteen years old, he finally cut off the relationship with his biological father. This was largely due to the fact that in 1994 the boy's father was sentenced to ten years in prison for possession and distribution of drugs.

• In school, the future film star of Hollywood went quite reluctantly. It was hard for him to learn and gain new knowledge, not only because of the lack of desire to learn, but also "thanks" to the boy's congenital feature of poor perception of written and verbal speech. The actor never managed to get a certificate of secondary education.
• However, the same cannot be said about sports. Keanu Reeves enjoyed hockey, football and basketball. The future actor also excelled at chess and even competed with adults, winning against them.
• In addition to sports Keanu had several other hobbies, one of which was attending the theatre and acting classes. Keanu at the age of 9 took part in the production of a scene called "Damn Yankees", after the production of which, teachers and teachers of the school noted the rudiments of talent in the boy, predicting him a happy future.
• At the age of fifteen, the budding actor took part in a theatre skit based on the novel "Romeo and Juliet", where he played Mercutio.
• It was with the first theatre productions and began Keanu Reeves' thoughts about his future: the boy was pleasant, and most importantly - comfortable to be on stage.

First steps to professional acting: first shoots in commercials and films, subsequent achievements and awards

• You have probably already guessed that the career of the future actor began at the age of nine with theatre performances, which laid the first sprouts of professional future in the boy.
• Also in the early eighties another job for Keanu Reeves was filming in an advert for Coca-Cola, which attracted the attention of directors to the personality of Keanu.
• In 1986, the budding film star got his first role in a film called "Young Blood", after the film adaptation of which the actor made one of perhaps the most important decisions in his life - a move to the capital of cinema - Hollywood.
• In that difficult and exciting time of the first stay in a foreign city, Keanu lived next to his former stepfather - director Paul Aeron. By the way, it is worth recalling that it was he who found for Keanu Reeves the first agent named Erwin Stoff, with whom the actor is currently working.

• For some time, the future Hollywood actor took part in episodic and minor roles. However, a big breakthrough up waited for him after the film adaptation of "The Incredible Adventures of Bill and Ted", which made a sensation.
• Then followed the next roles that brought the actor fame, success and big money.
• A well-known and rather fascinating fact is the information that the received and fully deserved fee actor never completely leaves himself. Often Keanu divides the money between all the workers who worked on the creation of this or that film.
• Often viewers think that Keanu Reeves is engaged only in acting, investing in this case completely all of himself. However, few people know that the actor also loves music. Some time he was even a member of a musical rock band, which, although it broke up, but left a big imprint in the life of the film star and laid in him a great love for music.

Personal life facts

• It is known that the film star was single for quite a long time. The actor has never been married. It is also quite difficult to catch him in company.
• Keanu Reeves was dating Jennifer Syme, who was pregnant and due to give birth to a baby girl. However, a week before the birth, the unpredictable happened: the doctor stopped hearing the baby's heartbeat. Jennifer lost her daughter.
• A year later, the girl herself was involved in a car accident.

• After such a double blow, Keanu was again lonely for a while, until in 2019 he met a new life partner named Alexandra Grant. With the girl the actor is dating and until now.