KEANU FACT FILE
Age: 25.
Born: In Beirut and raised in Toronto, Canada.
Looks: Brown hair and blue eyes [??? Keanu?s eyes are brown!]. He?s half Hawaiian and his name (pronounced Key-o-noo) means ?cool breeze from the mountains?. He gets very embarrassed about being described as a sex symbol. "I just hate seeing pictures of myself when I have this look in my eye where it?s like ?Oooh, I?m so sensitive!?."
Hobbies: He loves motorbike riding and spending quiet evenings in having a nice shower, reading a good book, listening to his fave music and enjoying a nice glass of wine.
First Role: At school he did Arthur Miller?s play The Crucible. His first line on stage was "What am I?" A girl in the audience behind Keanu?s mother apparently murmured dreamily "A hunk..."
Ambitions: Keanu says he?s embarrassed by interviews "because I haven?t done anything yet." He hopes to do some more stage work soon, especially an off-Broadway play.
KEANU?S FILMS
Youngblood (1985); Keanu played an ice hockey player. The film also starred Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze.
Brotherhood Of Justice (1986); Kiefer Sutherland also starred in this tale of a gang of lads who form a vigilante posse to fight crime at their school.
River?s Edge (1986); A shocking film in which a boy murdered his girlfriend. Keanu played a drug addict and mostly had to sit around looking stoned!
Permanent Record (1986); A big teen angst drama in which Keanu is forced to question his own value after his best mate kills himself.
The Night Before (1988); An embarrassing film for Keanu in which he does all sorts of unsavoury things while rather drunk.
Dangerous Liaisons (1988); He played a handsome aristocrat being manipulated by Glenn Close. The Prince Of Pennsylvania (1988); A tearaway young son rebels against his father who wants him to be a miner like him.
Parenthood (1989); A huge hit worldwide in which Keanu plays a hippy son with the weirdest haircut you?ve ever seen!
Bill And Ted?s Excellent Adventure (1989); See review. (See under Excellent Adventure articles)
I Love You To Death (1989); Not released here yet. William Hurt and Kevin Kline star in this black comedy in which Keanu and Hurt are hired to bump off a cheating husband.
Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter (1989); Not released here yet. Set in New Orleans in 1950, Keanu plays a trainee lawyer who longs to be a writer.
ON HIMSELF
"I?d rather be cross-eyed and kind of making some stupid face in photographs than have that sombre, actor look."
"I don?t think I?m the most handsome guy in the world but I know I?m not a dog."
"I went to a performing arts school in Toronto. It was a fun year but I was rude and stuff so I got kicked out and failed!"
"I?m your basic insecure clich?d actor. I?m kind of like a pseudo-quasi method actor."
"Acting is the only thing that keeps me still. If I?m not working, I bounce off walls." (!)
