John Wick Biography
Who plays John Wick?
Jack Wick (real name Keanu Charles Reeves) is a Canadian actor, director, producer, and musician. He was born( on 2 September 1964) in Beirut, Lebanon, to Patricia Reeves (mother), an English costume designer and performer from Essex, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves, Jr, an American man from Hawaii. His father is of Chinese, English, Native Hawaiian, and Portuguese ancestry.
Keanu’s father was arrested and imprisoned while selling heroin at the Hilo International Airport, Hawaii. In 1966 when Keanu Reeves was only 3 years, his father in prison earned his GED. He abandoned his wife and family that same year.
The young Keanu Reeves moved around the world a lot with his family, living with several stepfathers. After the divorce, Keanu’s mother became a costume designer and they all moved to Sydney, and later to New York City where she married Paul Aaron (in 1970) – a Broadway and Hollywood director. A year later, though, the couple divorced, having moved to Toronto. Keanu Reeves last met with his father on the island of Kauai when he was 13 years.
When Keanu Reeves was 15 years old, he went to work for Paul Aaron (stepfather), as a production assistant. Subsequently, Keanu’s mother married a third husband, Robert Miller (in 1976) – a rock music producer, a marriage that only lasted four years and ending in 1980. She went on to marry a fourth husband, Jack Bond – a hairdresser. This fourth marriage also crashed, in 1994.
John Wick is an upcoming American adrenaline-fueled action film starring Keanu Reeves as the titular super-assassin character in the third installment in the John Wick film series, following John Wick (2014) and John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017). The film is directed by Chad Stahelski and written by Derek Kolstad. It also stars Halle Berry, Laurence Fishburne, Mark Dacascos, Asia Kate Dillon, Lance Reddick, Saïd Taghmaoui, Jerome Flynn, Tobias Segal, Boban Marjanović, Anjelica Huston and Ian McShane.
Keanu Charles Reeves (John Wick ) gained fame for his starring role performances in several blockbuster films, including comedies from the Bill and Ted franchise (1989–1991); action thrillers Point Break (1991), Speed (1994), and the John Wick franchise; psychological thriller The Devil’s Advocate (1997); supernatural thriller Constantine (2005); and science fiction/action series The Matrix (1999–2003). He has also appeared in dramatic films such as Dangerous Liaisons (1988), My Own Private Idaho (1991), and Little Buddha (1993), as well as the romantic horror Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992).
In October 2014, he played the title role in the action thriller, John Wick. The film, which stars Reeves as a retired hitman, opened to positive reviews and performed well at the box office. He reprised the role in John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), which was also well received, and is set to return for John Wick 3: Chapter 3 on May 17th, 2019.
John Wick (Keanu Reeves) in the coming John Wick 3 returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin’s guild, the High Table, John Wick is excommunicado, but the world’s most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn.
When was John Wick Born| Age| Birthday
Keanu Charles Reeves was born on September 2nd, 1964. He is 54 years as of 2018.
John Wick Family| Parents
John Wick is the son to Patricia Reeves (mother), an English costume designer and performer from Essex, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves, Jr, an American man from Hawaii. His father is of Chinese, English, Native Hawaiian, and Portuguese ancestry.
John Wick Wife| Married| Relationship
In 2000, Keanu Reeves’s girlfriend, Jennifer Syme, gave birth about eight months into her pregnancy, to a baby girl Ava Archer Syme-Reeves, who was stillborn, unfortunately. The strain resulting from this loss resulted in their breakup weeks later.
Jennifer Syme had an accident while driving alone on Los Angeles’s Cahuenga Boulevard. She was thrown from the car, and authorities believed she died instantly. Apparently, she was being treated for depression, and police found two prescription drugs in her car.
Keanu Reeves is not married. His relationship status is currently unknown, and there is no proof that he is currently seeing anyone.
Reeves is rumored to have had affairs with several celebrities, including Amanda De Cadenet, Sandra Bullock, Hallie Meyers-Shyer, as well as Melissa Reigel and Jill Schoelen. Rumors even abound claiming that Keanu Reeves is gay. While we understand that rumors can sometimes be true, there is nothing to prove that he is, or had ever been gay.
John Wick Education
Throughout all these travels and change in stepfathers, within five years, Reeves had attended four high schools. From one of them, the Etobicoke School of the Arts, he got expelled. However, Reeves (Jack Wick) later dropped out of school and didn’t obtain a high school diploma.
John Wick Career| Acting| Theater
Reeves began his acting career at the age of nine, appearing in a theatre production of Damn Yankees. At the age of 15, he played Mercutio in a stage production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet at the Leah Posluns Theatre. Having dropped out of high school at 17, he obtained a green card through his American stepfather and moved to Los Angeles three years later where He lived with his ex-stepfather, Paul Aaron, who was a stage and television director. He made his acting debut in an episode of Hangin’ In.
In the early 1980s, he appeared in commercials (including one for Coca-Cola), short films including the NFB drama One Step Away and stage work such as Brad Fraser’s cult hit Wolfboy in Toronto. In 1984, he was a correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation TV youth program Going Great.
His first studio movie appearance was Youngblood (1986) in which he played a Québécois goalie. Shortly after the movie’s release, Reeves drove to Los Angeles in his 1969 Volvo. His stepfather had convinced Erwin Stoff in advance to be Reeves’s manager and agent. Stoff has remained Reeves’s manager and has co-produced many of his films.
After a few minor roles, Reeves received a sizable role in the 1986 drama film River’s Edge, which depicted how a murder affected a group of teens. Following this film’s critical success, he spent the late 1980s appearing in a number of movies aimed at teenage audiences, including the lead roles in Permanent Record and the unexpectedly successful 1989 comedy, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, along with its 1991 sequel, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. The same year he had a breakout role in the movie Parenthood.
In 1994, Reeves’s career reached a new high as a result of his starring role in the action film Speed. His casting in the film was controversial, since, except for Point Break, he was primarily known for comedies and indie dramas. He had never been the sole headliner on a film. The summer action film had a fairly large budget and was helmed by novice cinematographer-turned-director Jan de Bont.
Reeves’s career choices after Speed were eclectic: despite his successes, Reeves continued to accept supporting roles and appear in experimental films. He scored a hit with a romantic lead role in A Walk in the Clouds.
He made news by refusing to take part in Speed 2: Cruise Control – despite the offer of $11 million paychecks, which would have been his largest to date – in favor of touring with his band and playing the title role in a 1995 Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Hamlet in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Of his performance, Roger Lewis, the Sunday Times theatre critic, wrote, “He quite embodied the innocence, the splendid fury, the animal grace of the leaps and bounds, the emotional violence, that form the Prince of Denmark … He is one of the top three Hamlets I have seen, for a simple reason: he is Hamlet.”
However, Reeves’ choices after A Walk in the Clouds failed with critics and audiences. Big-budget films such as the sci-fi action film Johnny Mnemonic and the action-thriller Chain Reaction were critically panned and failed at the box office, while indie films like Feeling Minnesota were also critical failures.
Reeves finally started to climb out of his career low after starring in the horror-drama The Devil’s Advocate alongside Al Pacino and Charlize Theron. Reeves took a pay cut of $1 million for The Devil’s Advocate so that Pacino would be cast, and later took a 90 percent pay cut for the less successful The Replacements to guarantee the casting of Gene Hackman. The Devil’s Advocate did well at the box office and garnered good reviews.
The 1999 science fiction-action hit The Matrix, a film in which Reeves had a starring role, was a box office success and attracted positive reviews. In between the first Matrix film and its sequels, Reeves received positive reviews for his portrayal of an abusive husband in The Gift. Aside from The Gift, Reeves appeared in several films and in early 2005, Reeves’ accomplishments in Hollywood were recognized by the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a star located at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard.
Beginning in 2008, Reeves began pre-production on his directorial debut, Man of Tai Chi which is a multilingual narrative film, partly inspired by the life of his friend, stuntman Tiger Chen. This was his first directorial film which was premiered in 2013 with showings at the Beijing Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival. The work was awarded in Beijing and praised by recognized director of action genre films, John Woo.
In October 2014, he played the title role in the action thriller, John Wick. The film, which stars Reeves as a retired hitman, opened to positive reviews and performed well at the box office. He reprised the role in John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), which was also well received, and is set to return for John Wick 3: Chapter 3 (May 17th, 2019).
Jack Wick Net Worth
Reeves has an estimated net worth of about. USD$350 million.
John Wick Awards
In 2008, Reeves began pre-production on his directorial debut, Man of Tai Chi which is a multilingual narrative film, partly inspired by the life of his friend, stuntman Tiger Chen. This was his first directorial film which was premiered in 2013 with showings at the Beijing Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival. The work was awarded in Beijing and praised by recognized director of action genre films, John Woo.
John Wick 3 Release Date| Come Out
John Wick 3 is scheduled to be released on May 17th, 2019.
Picking from John wick 2, Legendary hit man John Wick must fight his way out of New York when a $14 million contract on his life makes him the target of the world’s top assassins.
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