KEANU REEVES'S PROFILE

Name: Keanu Charles Reeves

**"Keanu" is prouounced as Key-an-oo, mean "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian.He is named after his great,great-uncle.

His "other name": The Wall

**Keanu was nicknamed "the wall" by his high school hockey team (La Salle) where he was a MVP .

Height: 6'1"

Weight: about 175 Ibs

Date of birth: 2 September 1964

Country of birth: Beirut, Lebanon

Family: Father ,Samuel Nowlin Reeves Jr is a part chinese part Hawaiian.Mother is an Engish.Sisters are Karina(age21) and Kim(31).His stepfather, Paul Aaron.

**Keanu's mother was a costume designer for rock stars such as Alice Cooper while Keanu's biological father was a geologist,but now is serving a 10 years term in prison for drug possesion. Keanu's stepfather is a film and stage director.

Moonlighting as: Rock star!

*He got together with 3 friends to form the band Dogstar which perform in local pubs in its early in its formation stages. Dogstar then gradually moved onto "big" time, performing in Australia and such. (once as an opening act for Bon Jovi!) Keanu plays bass guitar.

Scraps with law: Caught for drink driving in 1993.

Worldly possesions: 1974 850cc Norton Combat Commando. Used to read that he got a pet lizard.

* Crashed his bike in Topanga Canyon, when on a "demon ride" (no headlights at night), into the side of a mountain. Hospitalised for a week with broken ribs and ruptured spleen.

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