Keanu Reeves facts
In high school, Keanu Reeves contemplated trying out for the Canadian Olympic ice hockey team.He lost the role of Wolverine in X-Men to HughJackman.When his sister Kim was diagnosed with leukemia, he set up a private foundation to aid children’s hospitals and cancer research.An avid rider, he co-founded Arch Motorcycle Company, which builds and sells custom motorcycles.One of his first roles: playing a competitive cyclist (for which he shaved his legs) in a 1980s commercial for Coca-Cola.
When Keanu Reeves first began acting, his agent thought his name was too exotic, so he was credited as K.C. Reeves, Norman Kreeves or Chuck Spadina.Reeves’s first role ever came at the age of 9 in a theater production of Damn Yankees.Keanu Reeves trained with martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping for the original Matrix film.He co-founded alternative rock band Dogstar and played bass guitar for the band from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s.Keanu Reeves is also an author, having written the text for a picture book, Ode to Happiness, illustrated by AlexandraGrant.Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon.Because his paternal grandmother is Chinese Hawaiian, Reeves grew up with Chinese art, furniture and cuisine.Reeves served as an ice hockey goalie at De La Salle College.As a teenager in Toronto, he worked as a manager at a pasta restaurant.
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