Keanu Charles Reeves was born September 2, 1964 in Beirut,
Lebanon, to Samuel Nowlin Reeves (half-Hawaiian, half-Chinese) and Patric Taylor(English).
There was a move to Australia for a year where his first sister Kim was born in
1966. A second (half) sister, Karina, was born in 1976.Keanu (Key-ah-nu) means
"cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian(For those who wish to get
technical, the translation is relative. Hawaiian is actually a picture language,
and in many cases deals with concepts orideas more than just specific words. "Keanu"
-- what a concept!) After their divorce, Patric and Samuel went their separate
ways: Patric and the two kids to New York City, and Samuel to Hawaii. Keanu visited
his father in Hawaii on occasion until he was thirteen. That was the last time
Keanu saw him. Samuel was sentenced in 1994 to ten years in prison for drug possession.
He was paroled in mid-1996. They do not maintain contact with each other. In
New York, Patric met and married director Paul Aaron. They moved to Toronto, and
took up Canadian citizenship (which Keanu still retains), but split up less than
a year later. Keanu described himself as a "middle-class white boy. A bourgeois,
middle-class white boy with an absent father, a strong-willed mother, and two
beautiful younger sisters." more..... |
