Keanu Reeves

Name: Keanu Charles Reeves
Birthdate: 2 September 1964
Birthplace: Beirut, Lebanon
Nickname: The Wall (due to his position in ice hockey)
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 175lbs
Hobbies: Ballroom dancing, ice hockey, motorcycles, horseback riding, playing bass guitar in the band Dogstar and surfing
Family: Mother and father (divorced) and two sisters, Karina and Kim (one younger, one older).
Previous Jobs: Sharpening ice skates, manager of a pasta shop.

Trivia:

His name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian. "Ke" means "the" and "anu" means "cool or coolness"; hence "the coolness."

In 1999 he ranked #23 in Empire magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.

He is afraid of the dark.

He won an MTV Movie Award for Most Desireable Male

Keanu is named after his great, great-uncle.

His step-father, Paul Aaron is a film and stage Director.

Reeves´ father is part Chinese part Hawaiian, his mother is english.

Keanu is left-handed.

His 1974 motorcycle is among his most prized possessions.

In May of 1993 Keanu was arrested in Los Angeles, charged with drunk driving.

Dropped out of high school when he was 17 to become an actor

Have you noticed Keanu´s scar? He got his abdominal scar from a motorcycle wreck in Topanga Canyon. He was on a "demon ride" (no headlights at night) when he crashed into the side of a mountain. He was hospitalized for a week with broken ribs and a ruptured spleen. When the paramedics came to get him, an emergency medical technician trainee picked up one end of the stretcher ... then dropped it by mistake! "It made me laugh, but I couldn't breathe!"

He played the James Dean role in Paula Abdul's Rush Rush music video, which is based on the film Rebel Without A Cause.

Keanu was expecting a baby with long-time girlfriend, Jennifer Lyme in the year 2000. The baby was born on december 24th, 1999, but unfortunately she was stillborn. My heart goes out to Keanu and Jennifer.

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