This comprehensive and revealing biography charts the life of actor Keanu Reeves both on and off screen
-- Keanu Reeves has starred in such box-office successes as Speed, Bram Stroker's Dracula, and A Walk in the Clouds, as well as the acclaimed My Own Private Idaho and Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing


With roles in films as diverse as the comedy Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, the action thriller Speed, and the Shakespearean play Much Ado About Nothing, handsome Keanu Reeves is one of the most versatile and popular young male actors of our time. Now able to command a fee of $10 million per movie, he also has worked with some of cinema's most respected directors, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Gus Van Sant, and Francis Ford Coppola.


Film journalist Brian Robb takes a look at Reeves's life and career in this fully illustrated biography. Beginning with Reeves's turbulent childhood (his English mother and Hawaiian father divorced early on, and his father was convicted for drug possession), Robb chronicles the actor's youthful globe-hopping (from his birthplace, Lebanon, to Australia to New York to Toronto), rebellious streak, obsession with motorcycles that led to a near-fatal crash, rock and roll ambitions with band Dog Star, and rumors surrounding his romantic life and sexuality.


The book also presents a detailed look at Reeves's work in film and television and chronicles his growth as an actor. Fans will remember a young Reeves in River's Edge with Dennis Hopper and his role in Dangerous Liaisons, but may not know about his Coca-Cola commercial or early television and stage work. With a look at both his current successes and recent failures, this book offers aportrait of an actor at the peak of his powers, ready to embark on the next stage of his Hollywood career.