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Biography
Keanu Reeves started out by turning up in small roles on various Canadian television programs when he lived in Toronto, Canada and, making his feature film debut in the 1985 Canadian film One Step Away before American audiences got their first good look at him in the 1986 drama Youngblood. It was Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure that would transform the actor into something of an '80s icon. Reeves' performance of a moronic, air guitar wielding wannabe rocker traveling through time in order to complete his history report and graduate from high school proved so endearingly silly that it spawned both a sequel (1991's Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey) and a Saturday morning cartoon. People now make fun of Bill & Ted, but I like them and what ever happened to the guy that played Bill. Keanu Reeves has been in just about every genre of movies and thats what makes him a great actor.
Filmography
- Matrix Revolutions, The (2003) .... Thomas A. Anderson/Neo
- Mayor of Sunset Strip (2003) .... Himself
- Matrix Reloaded, The (2003) .... Thomas A. Anderson/Neo
- Hardball (2001) .... Conor O'Neill
- Sweet November (2001) .... Nelson Moss
- Gift, The (2000) .... Donnie Barksdale
- Watcher, The (2000) .... David Allen Griffin
- Replacements, The (2000) .... Shane Falco
- Matrix, The (1999) .... Thomas A. Anderson/Neo
- Me and Will (1998) .... Dogstar/Himself
- Devil's Advocate, The (1997) .... Kevin Lomax
- Last Time I Committed Suicide, The (1997) .... Harry
- Feeling Minnesota (1996) .... Jjaks Clayton
- Chain Reaction (1996) .... Eddie Kasalivich
- Walk in the Clouds, A (1995) .... Paul Sutton
- Johnny Mnemonic (1995) .... Johnny Mnemonic
- Speed (1994) .... Officer Jack Traven
- Little Buddha (1993) .... Siddhartha
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993) .... Julian Gitche
- Freaked (1993) (uncredited) .... Ortiz the Dog Boy
- Much Ado About Nothing (1993) .... Don John
- Dracula (1992) .... Jonathan Harker
- Providence (1991) .... Eric
- My Own Private Idaho (1991) .... Scott Favor
- Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) .... Ted 'Theodore' Logan/Evil Ted
- Point Break (1991) .... F.B.I. Special Agent Johnny 'John' Utah
- Tune in Tomorrow... (1990) .... Martin Loader
- I Love You to Death (1990) .... Marlon James
- Parenthood (1989) .... Tod Hawkes
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) .... Ted 'Theodore' Logan
- Night Before, The (1988) .... Winston Connelly
- Permanent Record (1988) .... Chris Townsend
- Prince of Pennsylvania, The (1988) .... Rupert Marshetta
- Dangerous Liaisons (1988) .... Chevalier Danceny
- Flying (1986) .... Tommy
- River's Edge (1986) .... Matt
- Youngblood (1986) .... Heaver
- One Step Away (1985)
The Matrix: Revolutions
Cast: Keanu Reeves (Neo), Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity), Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus), Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith), Jada Pinkett-Smith (Niobi), Monica Bellucci, Collin Chou, Nona Gaye (Zee), Harry Lennix (Lock), Rupert Reid, Clayton Watson (The Kid) (see The Matrix Reloaded for other possible returning cast)
Based Upon: This film is of course the third in a trilogy that started with The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded. There will also be a Matrix Anime project, made up of episodes by famous Anime directors, direct to video in late 2002 or early 2003.
Premise: In the third installment, the epic war between man and machine reaches a thundering crescendo: the Zion military, aided by courageous civilian volunteers like Zee and the Kid, desperately battles to hold back the Sentinel invasion as the Machine army bores into their stronghold. Facing total annihilation, the citizens of the last bastion of humanity fight not only for their own lives, but for the future of mankind itself. But an unknown element poisons the ranks from within: the rogue program Smith has cunningly hijacked Bane, a member of the hovercraft fleet. Growing more powerful with each passing second, Smith is beyond even the control of the Machines and now threatens to destroy their empire along with the real world and the Matrix. The Oracle offers Neo her final words of guidance, which he accepts with the knowledge that she is a program and her words could be just another layer of falsehood in the grand scheme of the Matrix. With the aid of Niobe, Neo and Trinity choose to travel farther than any human has ever dared to go - a treacherous journey above ground, across the scorched surface of the earth and into the heart of the menacing Machine City. In this vast mechanized metropolis, Neo comes face to face with the ultimate power in the Machine world--the Deus Ex Machina--and strikes a bargain that is the only hope for a dying world. The war will end tonight, with Neo's destiny and the fate of two civilizations inexorably tied to the outcome of his cataclysmic confrontation with Smith.
Something's Gotta Give
Cast: Jack Nicholson (Harry Langer), Diane Keaton (Erica Barry), Keanu Reeves (Julian), Amanda Peet (Marin Barry), Jon Favreau (Leo), Frances McDormand (Zoe Barry), Paul Michael Glaser, Marjie Gum (Annie), Nichole Hiltz, Kadee Strickland (Kristen)
Premise: New York City music executive Harry Langer (Nicholson) is a man of some age and experience who generally dates younger women. His world is turned upside-down, however, when he has a heart attack while visiting the East Hampton beach home of the divorced playwright mother, Erica (Keaton), of his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin (Peet). With his girlfriend having gone back to the city, Harry is left in the care of Erica and his doctor (Reeves), but the two men soon find themselves competing with each other, as they both fall in love with the same woman... the mom. (McDormand plays Erica's sister, who helps her choose between her two new suitors).
Next Movie(s)
Constantine
Release Date: February 11th, 2005
Cast: Keanu Reeves (John Constantine), Rachel Weisz (Angela Dodson), Max Baker, Djimon Hounsou (Papa Midnite), Shia LeBeouf (Chaz), Gavin Rossdale (Balthazar), Peter Stormare (Satan), Tilda Swinton (Gabriel), Pruitt Taylor Vince; other cast not announced yet.
Based Upon: The long-running adult-oriented comic book series, John Constantine: Hellblazer, published by Vertigo Comics, which have been reprinted as several graphic novels. John Constantine was created by comic book visionary Alan Moore in The Saga of Swamp Thing in the American Gothic epic. (11/15/03) Producer Lauren Shuler-Donner told SciFi.com this week that this movie's storyline is actually based upon the 'Dangerous Habits' trade paperback. In that storyline, John Constantine discovers that he is dying of lung cancer, and when he discovers that the lords of Hell want his soul, he starts making deals with them in an effort to maneuver his way out of both hell and the disease.
Premise: John Constantine (Cage) is a world-travelling, mage-like misfit who investigates supernatural mysteries and the like, walking a thin line between evil and good. Constantine teams up with a female police detective, Angela (Weisz), who seeks Constantine's help while investigating the suicide-like death of her twin sister. Does it have something to do with a mysterious group called "The First of the Fallen"? And what is it about Constantine that puts him in a position where he is making deals with representatives from both Heaven and Hell? (Swinton plays Gabriel, a fallen angel who is one of the film's villains; LeBeouf plays Chaz, Constantine's teen sidekick; Hounsou plays Papa Midnite, an ex-demon-fighter who now owns a nightclub that caters to practitioners of the occult.)
Tripoli
Release Date: Unknown; that will depend upon when/if filming eventually gets started
Cast: Keanu Reeves (William Eaton), Ben Kingsley; other cast not announced yet.
Cast Notes: (11/18/03) Although Russell Crowe was long attached to star in this project, "Variety" reports that Keanu Reeves is now attached, after negotiations in which this might have been his first post-Matrix project.
Based Upon: The true story of U.S. Naval Agent William Eaton (1764-1811) and his efforts to overthrow the pirate states of Tripoli and the rest of the Barbary Coast.
Premise: This is the grand epic adventure of how William Eaton (Reeves), a diplomat representing President Thomas Jefferson and the United States in North Africa, joined forces with Hamet Karamanli, the exiled heir to the throne of the Barbary Coast nation of Tripoli (now called Libya) in 1804 to overthrow a corrupt ruler (Hamet's brother) who had taken his place. Organizing a relatively small group of 500 soldiers comprised of U.S. Marines (does "to the shores of Tripoli" sound familiar?), Arabs and Greeks, Eaton successfully marched across 600 miles of desert to storm and capture the seaport of Derna in April, 1805. Eaton and his men then prepared to continue their fight all the way to the capital city of Tripoli... (but I'm not going to spoil what happened next; check the sites linked below for more).
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