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Keanu Reeves on Walk of Fame
01/02/2005 09:13 - (SA)
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| Keanu Reeves displays his plaque during a ceremony where the actor was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. (Nick Ut, AP)
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Los Angeles - Matrix movie star Keanu Reeves, who rose to fame in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, has been awarded a most excellent honour: his own star on Hollywood's prestigious Walk of Fame.
The 40-year-old screen heart-throb thanked his mother after the unveiling of his bronze-edged star which was the 2 277th to be embedded in the pavement where legends from Errol Flynn to Tom Hanks are also immortalised.
"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 who attended the ceremony. "I asked my mom if it was okay to be an actor. She said: 'Whatever you want'. So thanks mom."
Keanu's rise to fame
Reeves, who was born in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, in September 1964, and was raised in New York City and Toronto, 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."
He launched his acting career in Toronto began his career on the Toronto stage before winning his first minor television roles.
His bug break came in 1986 when he landed a supporting role in the film Youngblood.
Later the same year he won critical acclaim for his performance in the film River's Edge, before winning his first starring role in 1989 as dim-witted teenage nerd Ted Logan, in the smash hit Excellent Adventure.
Big budget actor
He earned a reputation as a big budget movie action star with his role as policeman Jack Traven opposite Sandra Bullock in 1994's Speed, before becoming a mega-star after starring in 1999s The Matrix and its two sequels.
His other film credits include the 2003 Jack Nicholson-Diane Keaton comedy Something's Gotta Give, 1997s Devil's Advocate, opposite Al Pacino and My Own Private Idaho.
In his next film, Constantine, is scheduled for release in North America on February 18, Reeves plays the title role in the adaptation of the DC-Vertigo comic book of the same name.
- AFP
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