- Title: FILE:: 'The Matrix', 'John Wick' star Keanu Reeves due to turn 60
- Date: 30th August 2024
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE - SEPTEMBER 10, 1996) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** POSTER FOR "FEELING MINNESOTA" WITH KEANU REEVES AND CO-STAR, ACTOR CAMERON DIAZ/ REEVES ON RED CARPET REEVES SPEAKING TO REPORTER ABOUT CHARACTER REEVES, DIAZ AND ACTOR VINCENT D'ONOFRIO POSING FOR PHOTOS LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED S
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- Story Text: ‘'Matrix’' star Keanu Reeves is due to turn 60 on September 2, 2024.
Reeves who was born in Lebanon in 1964 and raised mostly in Canada made his name as an actor in 1989’s escapist fantasy "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.” Alongside Alex Winter he was one of two bumbling, time-travelling teenagers.
Action movies followed in the 1990s with Reeves playing an undercover FBI agent in ‘'Point Break’' and an LA police officer trying to save passengers on a bus with a bomb in high energy movie ‘’Speed.’’
His love of sci-fi was sealed with three ‘’Matrix’’ movies in which he portrayed a computer hacker who is suddenly thrust into the role of humanity's saviour from machines that rule the world. The trio of blockbusters which were released from 1999 to 2003 raked in more than $1.6 billion in global ticket sales. As well as several videos games, he went on to re-visit franchise in 2021 with the release of '’The Matrix Resurrections.’’
In 2013 Reeves stepped behind the camera making his directorial debut with "Man of Tai Chi", a trilingual film loosely based on the life of a stuntman, Tiger Chen, whom he befriended while working on the sci-fi "The Matrix" trilogy.
Back as the leading man, Reeves went on to star as John Wick, a grieving husband and retired assassin, who reverts to being a killing machine to avenge the wrongs done to him by Russian mobsters, in a movie with the same name.
To date four films have been released, the last being ‘‘John Wick: Chapter 4’’ out in 2023.
Reeves hasn’t received an Academy Award or BAFTA nomination for his acting work, but in 2005 he got a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. He has been nominated for numerous other awards, and won some including several MTV Movie Awards and a legacy award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA.
Recently Reeves released a new novel called ’’The Book of Elsewhere’’, out in 2024, it’s a spin off to his comic books.
Despite his Hollywood status Reeves always shied away from the limelight.
Telling Reuters in 2008 that he’s a ''very private person’’ who likes to ''lead a pretty low-key lifestyle.”
He also admitted to being "a bit of a loner, at least some of the time.’’
Tragedy struck Reeves in 1999 when his child with girlfriend Jennifer Syme was stillborn. Two years later Syme was killed in car crash.
In 2019 Reeves went public with his relationship with artist Alexandra Grant who he reportedly met in 2009.
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