Keanu: at first the name seemed a liability but it became a magnet. As he nudged into the public eye, magazine profiles endlessly supplied handy pronunciation guides (Kee-AH-noo) and explained that it was Hawaiian for " a cool breeze over the mountains" .
Keanu Charles Reeves was born on September 2nd, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon, to Samuel Nowlin Reeves (half-Hawaiian, half-Chinese) and Patricia Taylor (English). His first sister, Kim, was born in 1966. A second (half) sister, Karina, was born in 1976. |