He was abandoned by his father at 3 years old and grew up with 3 different stepfathers.
He is dyslexic.
His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident.
His daughter died at birth.
His wife died in a car accident.
His best friend, River Phoenix, died of an overdose.
His sister has leukemia.
Keanu did not break: he donated $5 million to the clinic that treated his sister, he refused to shoot (to be with her), and created the Leukemia Foundation, donating significant sums from each fee for the film.
And with everything that has happened, Keanu Reeves never misses an opportunity to help people in need. When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants; One cried because he would lose his house if he did not pay $20,000 and on the same day Keanu deposited the necessary amount in the woman's bank account; He also donated stratospheric sums to hospitals.
In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery and bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him. He can just eat a hot dog in the park, sitting between ordinary people.
Actor, film director, film producer and musician Keanu Charles Reeves (Keanu Charles Reeves), missed the first 20 minutes of the party dedicated to the end of filming of his new film in one of the clubs in New York. He waited patiently in the rain to be let in. No one recognized him. The club owner said: "I didn't even know Keanu was standing in the rain waiting to be let in - he didn't say anything to anyone."
After winning astronomical sums for the Matrix trilogy, the actor donated more than $50 million to the staff who handled the costumes and special effects - the true heroes of the trilogy, as he called them.
He also gave a Harley-Davidson to each of the stunt doubles. A total expense of several million dollars. And for many successful films, he has even given up 90% of his salary to allow the production to hire other stars.
In 1997 some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours. "He easily communicates with homeless people on the street and helps them".
Most stars when they make a charitable gesture, they declare it to all the media. He has never claimed to be doing charity, he simply does it as a matter of moral principles and not to look better in the eyes of others.
"He travels by public transport": 0 ego.
This man could buy everything, and instead
every day he gets up and chooses one thing that cannot be bought: To be a good
person.
