Walk of Fame Star Award

 KEANU REEVES  

 Received his Walk Of Fame Star
Monday, January 31, 2005, at 11:30 a.m.
(6801 Hollywood Blvd - near Highland) 
   

JANUARY 31, 2005 -LOS ANGELES 

Keanu Reeves, who rose to fame with "Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure" but is best known for playing Neo in the "Matrix" trilogy, received the 2,277th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday.

 

  During a midday ceremony near Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue, Reeves thanked his mother for encouraging him to pursue an acting career.

"When I was 15 years old and a kid in Canada, I was doing a play called 'Romeo and Juliet,' Reeves said, turning toward his mother. "I asked my Mom if it was OK to be an actor. She said,'Whatever you want.'So thanks Mom."

  

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sept. 2, 1964 and raised in New York City and Toronto, Reeves was a star high school hockey goaltender who earned the nickname "The Wall" before dropping out of school to pursue an acting career.

"Hollywood was calling," Reeves told the crowd. "So I got in my car, a 1969 British racing green Volvo -- holes in the floor, bricks holding up the seats. I was a young man full of hopes and dreams."

Reeves began his career by performing in various Toronto-area stage productions and got his first television credit playing "Thug No. 1" in a 1985 episode of the crime drama "Night Heat."

He came to Hollywood after landing a supporting role in the 1986 film "Youngblood," starring Rob Lowe.

Reeves received critical acclaim for his performance in the 1986 film "River's Edge." Three years later, he had his first starring role in a box office hit, playing Ted Logan, one of a pair of time-traveling, dim-witted San Dimas teenagers in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure." Reeves also starred in the 1991 sequel, "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey."

Reeves earned a reputation as a big budget movie action star with his role as Officer Jack Traven opposite Sandra Bullock in "Speed." He passed on the "Speed" sequel, ending up in a bigger box office hit by playing a computer programmer who ends up saving the world in the "Matrix" trilogy.

Reeves' other film credits include the Jack Nicholson-Diane Keaton comedy, "Something's Gotta Give," "Devil's Advocate," "A Walk in the Clouds," "The Replacements," "Little Buddha," "Much Ado About Nothing," "Bram Stoker's Dracula," "My Own Private Idaho" and "Point Break."

"I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years," Reeves said. "This has been an amazing journey.

I hope it continues."

 

In his next film, "Constantine," scheduled for release Feb. 18, Reeves plays the title role in the adaption of the DC-Vertigo comic book.

Reeves has also completed the animated adaption of "A Scanner Darkly" and "Thumbsucker," both due out later this year.

(source:LA News)

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