Keanu Reeves films biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Of course, first of all, he was remembered by the audience as Neo from the trilogy "Matrix". But in his rich filmography there are also many other roles: both in the box office and in independent projects. This is the unprincipled lawyer in the mystical thriller “Devil's Lawyer”, and a strange agent under the guise in the animated film “Nonsense”, and the intermediary between Ray and hell, the Lord of the Darkness “Konstantin”.

You can list for a very long time. At the same time, Keanu is not just a talented actor, but also an amazingly sensitive, vulnerable, caring person and an outstanding person who deserves special attention. Keanu owes his spectacular appearance to Hawaiian and Portuguese from his father, as well as the English and Irish roots on the part of his mother. And such an unusual name of the boy came from the Hawaiian language and means "refreshing breeze over the mountains." He had no higher education, but what was there, he received a certificate of maturity in prison, where he got on charges of heroin trade.

Two years after the birth of Keanu, the baby Kim appeared in the family, and shortly after that, as soon as the boy was 3 years old, Samuel threw his family. After that, Keanu and his mother and sister moved first to Sydney, then to New York, where his mother, who had been retraining in the costume artist by that time, married the Broadway director Paul Aaron.

After that, the family finally settled in Toronto - since then Keanu has always considered the hospitable Canada to be his homeland. Strange, but the rock star remembered a little boy who enthusiastically listened to his rock models. At school, Keanu Reeves was reluctant to study. Items were given to the future actor with difficulty. All because in childhood the boy suffered from dyslexia, that is, a violation of the perception of oral and written information.

Because of this, it was difficult to read, write to Keanu and, accordingly, study. Due to the ridicule of classmates and the contemptuous attitude of teachers, he quickly became closed and uncertain, but, having matured, was able to cope with his complexes. But Keanu Reeves from childhood at a decent level played chess. He even threw calls to adult players, levy from an opponent for a dollar for each game.

For five years, the school photo of Keanu Reeves has changed four secondary schools, including the school of acting crafts, from which the young man was expelled. After that, he is already gnawing at the granite of science in a Catholic school for boys. Having left her, Keanu began playing hockey and entered a state free school. The teammates even called the “wall” - Keanu was a first -class goalkeeper and felt confident on the ice.

But the future actor abandoned this school without receiving a certificate of maturity. After that, he moved from his parents to the young Keanu Reeves, settled in the basement of the house of his girlfriend Pam and began to earn extra money in three places at once: sharpened skates on a local hockey platform, cutting bushes in parks and brewed spaghetti in an Italian restaurant. Keanu Reeves played his first role at the age of 15, taking part in the play “Boy-Volk” of the LEAH POSLUNS TheATRA local theater.

His first role in the full -length film came for a year - the young actor played the role of a hockey goalkeeper in Peter Markla’s tape “Young Blood”. After the release, the tape Keanu Reeves received a green card and moved to Los Angeles. Former stepfather Paul Aaron helped Kian to get comfortable in the city and found a young agent for young gift. He considered the name of the ward too exotic, so in the first films Keanu Reeves was listed under the pseudonyms of Norman Reeves, K.

Reeves and even Chuck Speuden. The guy played the schoolboy Matt, who is tearing out the dilemma: to tell the authorities about the murder of his classmate his friend, or to preserve the crime secret in the name of friendship. With Dennis Hopper, who participated in the filming, Keanu subsequently met on the set of “speed”. However, Keanu, a convinced pacifist, refused the role, and as a result, Charlie Shine got the main role.

In the beginning of the x, the name of the young Keanu Reeves was no longer an empty sound in the world of cinema. So, he managed to demonstrate his charm in the costume melodrama “Dangerous Relations” with Glen Close, Michelle Pfeiffer and John Malkovich, as well as in the youth comedy “Incredible Adventures of Bill and Ted”, playing a couple with Alex Winter. In the comedy “Incredible Adventures of Bill and Teda”, Keanu Reeves in the year, the militant “on the crest of the wave” came to the screens, for which the actor tried himself in surfing and unexpectedly carried away by this sport.

In the same year, the premiere of the independent film Gas Van Sent “My Personal state of Aidaho”, where Keanu reincarnated in the rebel Scott, out of protest engaged in street prostitution. The young actor was played by Jonathan Harker, who was captured by the insidious vampire Gary Oldman, who was in love with his bride Winona Ryder. In m, he appeared before the audience in the image of one of the reincarnations of the Buddha in the film by the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci "Little Buddha".Keanu, in the role of the Buddha reincarnation in the year, in the filmography of the actor, the first real action movie appeared - “Speed”.

According to the plot, the heroes Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock are trying to neutralize the bomb installed on the bus with a crazy terrorist performed by Dennis Hopper. The militant himself entered the list of the most spectacular films of the 20th century, although in 99th place. During the filming of Keanu and Sandra Bullock, a fleeting novel of the next signs of Keanu began the main role in the film adaptation of the story of the classic Cyberpan William Gibson “Johnny Mnemonik”.

The film takes place in an alternative future, where Reeves is a “information courier” that transfers valuable data in his own brain. It is noteworthy that the film was initially conceived as a subtle psychological drama, but as soon as the “speed” was released, which instantly made Keanu Star Akchein, director Robert Longo added a scene with fights and shootings to the picture, which subsequently caused the displeasure of Gibson himself.

In order for the famous Hollywood actor to take part in the picture, Reeves even abandoned part of his fee in favor of Pacino. As a result, Jason Patrick starred in Speed-2, and the world with his breath watched how the ambitious young lawyer plunges into the abyss of vice, which turned out to be a real nightmare. The new milestone of popularity, but a truly cult actor Keanu Reeves became after the premiere in the year of the first part of the Cyberpanka trilogy "Matrix" from the directors of Vachovsky.

His hero, Hacker Thomas Anderson nicknamed Neo, finds out that all the surrounding reality is nothing more than a fiction created by machines to subordinate a person after the triumph of artificial intelligence. Freed from captivity of illusions, Neo became one of the leading figures in the struggle of mankind for the return of freedom. The interrogation of the Neo smart and dynamic “matrix”, saturated with thin references to world masterpieces of cinema, philosophical treatises and even “Alice in Wonderland”, coupled with the Bible, became a cult film of the outgoing XX century, marked a new era.

Based on the trilogy, books were written, computer games were created and even painted anime. It is funny that Keanu Reeves himself for a long time, even after the release of the “matrix”, in principle, there was no computer. But he personally took part in work on costumes and special effects. Neo - the cult image of Keanu Reeves, the following parts of the “matrices” were released in the year with a break of six months.

The subsequent roles after the success of the “matrix” Keanu Reeves starred, according to many critics, in a series of unsuccessful work. One of the best films by Keanu Reeves - “Konstantin: Lord of Darkness” and waited: the audience saw Keanu Reeves in a new role - a cold -blooded ironic exorcist Konstantin, forced to patrol the border between Ray and hell in anticipation of inevitable death.

After Konstantin: the Lord of Darkness, Kiana was again spoke about the sign of Hollywood. At this time, the actor had his own star on the Alley of Glory in Hollywood. Together with the heroes of Robert Dauni Jr., Winona Ryder and Woody Harrelson, he was involved in the story of the near future, when the world flooded the mysterious drug, which destroys the brain and body of a person to the ground.

Keanu played a major role, trying on the image of a drug addict’s agent from the drug fighting department. The film touched the hearts of millions - it was not just a love story; Elements of science fiction and even mysticism intervened in it. The directorial debut of Keanu Reeves was met positively, despite the stampingness of such a genre of films. Keanu was the only American actor chosen to the main role - the rest of the characters were given to the popular Japanese, but little -known actors outside the country.

A dynamic and atmospheric film received many warm reviews, like the next, already completely different, action with the participation of Reeves, “John Wick”. A frame from the film “John Wick” in the year Keanu Reeves appeared in the psychological horror “Neon Demon”, playing a suspicious hotel manager accusing the heroine El Fanning at the expense of the hotel room, it is incomprehensible from the PUMA that appeared in it.

The frame from the film “Neon Demon” also played the main role in the drama “Only Truth”, reincarnating a lawyer who is trying to prove the innocence of the young man accused of killing his father for money. Unfortunately, both critics and spectators dubbed the film “Boring Tyagomotina”, adding another project to the number of unsuccessful last films by Keanu Reeves.

It is believed that Keanu Reeves is not aging. In principle, in the same year, the actor voiced a kitten, who, in the plot, turned out to be his namesake. The comedic tape was also called Kiana. The plot of the picture talks about a post -apocalyptic society and, in particular, about the cannibal community. One of the main characters, of course, cannibal falls in love with his food.Keanu Reeves in the film “Bad Party” in the year, he simultaneously worked on several projects - this is a fantastic thriller “Reproduction”, where the actor will play the new “version” of Viktor Frankenstein, the melodrama “Appointment: Wedding”, where Reeves will again “play love” with Vainona Ryder, and the criminal thriller “Siberia”, the shooting of which partially passed In St.

Petersburg. In Russia, “Siberia” came out under the name “Professional” and did not live up to the expectations of Russian spectators due to the abundance of stereotypes: there was a Russian mafia, vodka, and ladies of easy behavior, in a word, the entire standard “cranberry” set. The stamped “professional” did not go to the Russian spectators “John Wick” if before the name of Keanu Reeves was associated with Neu from the “matrix”, in the year it had grown together with the image of a “polite hired single killer” of John Wick of the same name by a neoar thriller.

John Wick - the new starry role of Keanu Reeves, the creator of the film Chad Stahelski has already worked with Reeves on the set of Matrix - he was a stuntman. The screenwriter Derek Kolstad during work on the plot represented the main role of Paul Newman in the prime of his career in x. Of course, there was no question of this candidacy - at that time the actor was not alive for several years.

The choice fell on Keana. Stahelsky admired him in the "Matrix". According to the former stuntman, he did not know another actor who could survive these shootings: "No one else could afford to be soaked, suffering, tired, beaten." At that time, Keanu stood on the threshold of the flying, but again demonstrated brilliant professionalism. As in the Matrix, he performed all the tricks in John Wick himself, although 15 years have passed since the time of Neo and his kung fu.

Preparing for the role of Wick, Reeves was engaged in judo and Jiu-Jitsu for 4 months. It has a power of spirit. This is a man of a completely different worldview, ”said the director. John Wick. The trailer actor agreed to act in only a million dollars for a fee, because at first the project did not seem promising. Do you think how many studios have abandoned our project?

Spoiler: Everything, ”laughs Stahel. Dogs, in principle, play an important role in the trilogy in the film John Wick, speaks a little in Russian. Before these filming, Keanu did not know a single word from the Russian language, but thanks to good teachers he managed to pronounce a couple of phrases almost without an accent. Ironically, the characters, who are Russian in the plot, speak in the original voice acting with a terrible accent and speech mistakes.

In the year, the third part of the Bill and Ted adventures unexpectedly came out. The action takes place many years after the second part. Bill and Ted are already middle -aged, but they still have not written the song that, as people from the future claimed, have to forever change humanity for the better.