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Keanu Reeves – Early life
Keanu Reeves, born September , is a Canadian actor and director, Keanu is known for his roles in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed and The Matrix trilogy. Keanu's father worked as an unskilled labourer and earned his GED (General Educational Development) while imprisoned in Hawaii for selling heroin. When Keanu was three years old his father abandoned him, his mother and three sister. In the years after this, his mother went on to marry three other men but each one ended in divorce. Reeves once described their history as "full of pain and woe."
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Loss In October 1993, Keanu’s close friend River Phoenix (who co-stared with him in the film My Own Private Idaho) died of a drug overdose. In December 1999, Reeves's girlfriend at the time, Jennifer Syme, gave birth in her eighth month of pregnancy to a stillborn daughter, Ava Archer Syme-Reeves. In January 2000 Reeves and Jennifer, buried their child. The grief proved too much for their relationship, which ended several weeks later but they remained close friends. Sadly in 2001, Jennifer died in a car crash.
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Keanu Reeves and his sisters Kim and Karina
Sister’s Leukaemia In 2000, Keanu’s sister, Kim was diagnosed with leukaemia. Keanu became her caretaker, making her meals, preparing her medication, putting entire film shoots on hold and donating millions to the hospital that was treating her so they could advance their leukaemia research. Keanu sold his house in Burbank, California so he could spend more time with Kim. He paid out £450,000 on a new home, with a purpose-built equestrian centre, Kim is horse-breeder. Keanu Reeves and his sisters Kim and Karina
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Generosity Keanu gave $80 million of his Matrix salary away to the special-effects team and costume designers who worked on the trilogy, as he believes they were the ones who deserve all the credit. He is also known for buying breakfast and lunch for crews at his film shoots and giving some of them as much as $20,000 so they can pay off their debts. “Money is the last thing I think about. I could live on what I've already made for the next few centuries.”
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Summary Even after all his loss throughout life, Keanu still shows kindness to other people. He may not have changed the world but he significantly changed the life 0f countless people and that is truly inspirational.
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