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File No. 722417 · Adjudicated
Keanu Reeves
Actor — The Matrix series, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed
Born
1964
Birthplace
BEIRUT, LEBANON
Citizenships
LEBANON / CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
3.0/ 5
Weighted across 6 scored criteria
Designation
Ya No Ya 🤔
Knows that bud → buddy → pal is not an escalation in friendliness.
Scorecard
Path B — not born on Canadian soil
I. Origin
✗
Born on Canadian soil — no
BEIRUT, LEBANON
✗
Canadian parentage — no
No Canadian parents on record
✓
Citizenship on record — yes
Held — by descent or naturalisation
II. Residency
✓
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Canada
✓
Lived in Canada by choice — yes
Residency on record as an adult
✓
Worked or filmed in Canada — yes
Credits filed north of the 49th
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. It carries no weight under either path.
—
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Says so, out loud
—
Canada claims them back — not scored
No claim lodged
The verdict
Born in Beirut to an English mother and a Hawaiian-Chinese-American father, Keanu Reeves moved to Toronto as a child and grew up there — attending multiple Toronto high schools and getting his SAG card through a Canadian production. He holds Canadian citizenship and has described Toronto as where he's from. The Matrix was all of us, eh.
