Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves

Birth Date: September 02, 1964
Birth Place: Beirut, Lebanon

Whoaaa – that's Keanu Reeves' trademark phrase, first uttered as dimwitted stoner Ted Logan in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. To battle being typecast as brainless, Reeves tackled Shakespeare onstage as Hamlet and onscreen in Much Ado About Nothing, opposite Denzel Washington. But it was his action hero roles in Speed and the Matrix trilogy that put the excellence in his career.

His personal life has been less charmed. Girlfriend Jennifer Syme gave birth to a stillborn daughter before her death in a 2001 car accident; his sister Kim is fighting leukemia. When he's not acting, Reeves rides motorcycles, plays bass in his rock band Dogstar, and leads a largely reclusive life.