Keanu Reeves Articles and Interviews Archive
1986–2022

Number of articles: 3426

This archive is the result of the combined efforts of Keanu fans through the ages: started by the Gardeners at the Garden of Keanadu more than 20 years ago, then moved to Reeves Drive, then bought over by Club Keanu, then rebuilt here at WINM when CK crashed in 2008 – I offered to collect and compile articles that fans had saved, a task that spanned 40 days. We managed to salvage 840 articles by the end of it. About 300 could not be tracked down.

I've been curating this archive ever since. I hope for it to be a useful resource for Keanu fans both old and new, as well as a legacy of the amazing life and career of Keanu Charles Reeves. There is something inherently epic about following a life over a period of about 30 years, and it is a great tale filled with angst and whoa about the immortal Canadian kid from the broken family who rose to fame through sheer determination and the persistent will to improve, surviving personal tragedies and the relentless barrage of critics to emerge as one of Hollywood's most reluctant yet longlasting stars.

This archive is a window not only into Keanu's journey but also provides a fascinating insight into how celebrity journalism has changed since the 1980s, and the way facts can get misreported or wilfully twisted and change from one news report to the next. A misinterpreted sentence can blow up and go viral; an April Fool's story re-reported as true; a single girl's whisper evolve into a crowd of chanting women; and Keanu can be allegedly involved in a gay wedding simultaneously held in Los Angeles, Hawaii, the Hamptons and France, all while he was off working in Canada.

Because of this, not everything in these articles can be taken as fact. This archive is, first and foremost, a record of Keanu's life as print media has presented it. Some articles were poorly researched and full of inaccuracies, others were based on unsubstantiated rumours, others were outright fabricated, others are from tabloids. Keanu's name is pronounced kay-ah-nu, not kee-ah-noo. He never converted to Buddhism. He did not marry David Geffen. He did not marry Alan Cumming. He did not marry Autumn Mackintosh. He did not marry Jennifer Syme. He did not marry you. He never engaged in naked swimming pool frolics with Sharon Stone, though he later said he wished that were true. He did not say that Hollywood elites drink the blood of babies to get high. His parents' names are Patricia Taylor and Samuel Reeves Jr., not 'Patricia Cholmondley' and 'Milo'.

I kept all these in because quite a few had an impact on Keanu's public image, but I include notes where possible if I know an article has been proven false.

I definitely don't have every single thing ever written about Keanu, but my aim is instead to provide a representative archive that can give a fairly accurate account of Keanu's life... or at least, what the media would like you to think Keanu's life is.

After all, he's still a celebrity. For most of us, the media's constructed image of him is all we have to go on, and unless we know Keanu personally, it is that image – rather than the real person – that we are either fans or critics of. It's all illusions we recall. We really don't know Reeves at all.

But we still can try. Enjoy the archive!