Performer

Keanu Reeves

A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.

Born
2 September 1964
Age
61
Nationality
Lebanese
Active
1988–present
Performances
65
In Nutevio
1988–present
Known for
Shiver
Performer Score
7.1
  • Hall of Fame
  • Horror Icon
  • Action Legend
  • Modern Classic
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Nutevio rank

#29

of 909177 performers

Top 1%

Keanu Reeves represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 39 years in, and Keanu is still choosing the harder script.
Ranked #29 of 909177 performers in the Nutevio catalogue. Recalculated automatically as titles and credits are imported.

The essay

Reading Keanu Reeves

Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.

Why this performer matters

Keanu Reeves appears in 65 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Keanu. The Matrix is the clearest case: a film rated 9.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.

Signature style

The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, thriller, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.

Legacy

Working with Tim Miller, Jeff Fowler, Andrew Stanton and others, Keanu Reeves helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.

Best known for

The Matrix (1999) as Neo · The Matrix (1999) as Neo · John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) as John Wick

Career snapshot

The career at a glance

Ranked #29 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.

  • Films in Nutevio

    65

    1988–2027

  • Career length

    39 yrs

    Measured across our catalogue

  • Academy Awards

    Unknown

  • Oscar nominations

    Unknown

  • Highest Nutevio score

    9.2

    The Matrix

  • Average Nutevio score

    6.5

    Across catalogue work

  • Highest IMDb rating

    8.7

    The Matrix

  • Most frequent director

    Chad Stahelski

    4 films together

  • Longest collaboration

    With Chad Stahelski

  • Most common genre

    Drama

    24 titles

  • Average runtime

    1h 47m

    Across catalogue work

  • Golden Globe wins

    Unknown

Nutevio metric

Performer Score

Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.

Nutevio Performer Score

7.1

out of 10

A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.

  • Performance quality6.7
  • Consistency6.5
  • Emotional range7.9
  • Character transformation7.8
  • Cultural impact6.4
  • Iconic roles6.7
  • Career longevity9.6
  • Influence6.4
  • Awards recognition6.6
  • Rewatch value6.4

Nutevio metric

Influence Score

Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.

Nutevio Influence Score

7.0

out of 10

A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.

  • Cultural impact6.3

    How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.

  • Legacy6.9

    What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.

  • Industry recognition6.6

    Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.

  • Career longevity9.3

    Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.

  • Awards6.4

    Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.

  • Iconic performances8.3

    Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.

  • Influence on filmmakers6.2

    Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.

  • Influence on other actors6.2

    The reading other performers now have to answer.

Actor DNA

How they work on screen

A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.

  • Versatility99
  • Transformation99
  • Quiet performance80
  • Screen presence68
  • Charisma65
  • Rewatchability63
  • Drama49
  • Emotional range48
  • Intensity40
  • Physical performance35
  • Villain presence34
  • Action31
  • Comedy28

The shape of a career

Career evolution

Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.

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  • Nutevio
  • Performance score
  • IMDb

Peak years

Best era

Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.

Best decade

1990s

7.1 average MV

The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Matrix, The Matrix, The Devil's Advocate — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.

Highest average Nutevio score

1990s

7.1

Across 14 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.

Highest average IMDb rating

1990s

7.0

The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.

Most awarded era

1990s

4 Academy Awards

Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Matrix, The Matrix, The Devil's Advocate.

Most productive era

2010s

19 films

The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.

Range, mapped

Career heatmap

Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.

The career concentrates in thriller during the 2010s, and the scores hold there.
Genre1980s1990s2000s2010s2020s
Drama
6.92 films
7.15 films
6.69 films
5.97 films
5.41 film
Action
7.36 films
7.14 films
6.66 films
5.85 films
Thriller
6.83 films
6.47 films
6.210 films
5.03 films
Comedy
6.82 films
6.53 films
6.43 films
6.45 films
6.08 films
Sci-Fi
9.21 film
Crime
7.21 film
6.71 film
6.06 films
7.52 films
Romance
7.11 film
7.33 films
6.64 films
5.45 films
Horror
7.52 films
6.92 films
5.73 films

Chronology

Career timeline

Firsts and peaks

Career milestones

The turning points, in the order they happened.

  1. First film in Nutevio

    1988Dangerous Liaisons

    Where our catalogue meets this career, as Le Chevalier Raphael Danceny.

  2. First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak

    1999The Matrix

    The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.

  3. Most recent film

    2027Sonic the Hedgehog 4

    The current state of the argument, as Shadow (voice).

Our order

Performances ranked

Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.

1
Official poster for The Matrix (1999)

The Matrix

1999 · Sci-Fi

2h 16m

8.7IMDb
2
Official poster for The Matrix (1999)

The Matrix

1999 · Action

2h 16m

8.3IMDb
3
Official poster for John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

John Wick: Chapter 4

2023 · Action

2h 50m

7.7IMDb
4
Official poster for Toy Story 4 (2019)

Toy Story 4

2019 · Comedy

1h 40m

7.5IMDb
5
Official poster for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

2024 · Action

1h 50m

7.6IMDb
6
Official poster for The Devil's Advocate (1997)

The Devil's Advocate

1997 · Mystery

2h 24m

7.5IMDb
7
Official poster for John Wick (2014)

John Wick

2014 · Action

1h 41m

7.5IMDb
8
Official poster for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Bram Stoker's Dracula

1992 · Romance

2h 8m

7.5IMDb
9
Official poster for Toy Story 5 (2026)

Toy Story 5

2026 · Comedy

1h 42m

7.4IMDb
10
Official poster for Wick Is Pain (2025)

Wick Is Pain

2025 · Documentary

2h 7m

7.4IMDb
11
Official poster for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020)

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run

2020 · Comedy

1h 35m

7.4IMDb
12
Official poster for John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

2019 · Action

2h 11m

7.4IMDb
13
Official poster for A Walk in the Clouds (1995)

A Walk in the Clouds

1995 · Romance

1h 43m

7.4IMDb
14
Official poster for Ballerina (2025)

Ballerina

2025 · Action

2h 5m

7.3IMDb
15
Official poster for John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

John Wick: Chapter 2

2017 · Action

2h 2m

7.3IMDb
16
Official poster for Constantine (2005)

Constantine

2005 · Action

2h 1m

7.2IMDb
17
Official poster for The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

The Matrix Reloaded

2003 · Action

2h 18m

7.1IMDb
18
Official poster for Bowling for Columbine (2002)

Bowling for Columbine

2002 · Drama

2h 0m

7.5IMDb
19
Official poster for Speed (1994)

Speed

1994 · Action

1h 56m

7.2IMDb
20
Official poster for DC League of Super-Pets (2022)

DC League of Super-Pets

2022 · Science Fiction

1h 45m

7.2IMDb
21
Official poster for To the Bone (2017)

To the Bone

2017 · Drama

1h 47m

7.2IMDb
22
Official poster for The Animatrix (2003)

The Animatrix

2003 · Science Fiction

1h 42m

7.2IMDb
23
Official poster for Point Break (1991)

Point Break

1991 · Action

2h 2m

7.2IMDb
24
Official poster for Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

Dangerous Liaisons

1988 · Romance

1h 59m

7.2IMDb
25
Official poster for The Lake House (2006)

The Lake House

2006 · Romance

1h 39m

7.0IMDb
26
Official poster for My Own Private Idaho (1991)

My Own Private Idaho

1991 · Drama

1h 44m

7.0IMDb
27
Official poster for Good Fortune (2025)

Good Fortune

2025 · Comedy

1h 37m

6.9IMDb
28
Official poster for The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

The Matrix Revolutions

2003 · Action

2h 9m

6.8IMDb
29
Official poster for Sweet November (2001)

Sweet November

2001 · Romance

1h 59m

6.9IMDb
30
Official poster for Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

Much Ado About Nothing

1993 · Romance

1h 51m

6.9IMDb
31
Official poster for Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks (2019)

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

2019 · History

1h 48m

6.8IMDb
32
Official poster for A Scanner Darkly (2006)

A Scanner Darkly

2006 · Science Fiction

1h 40m

6.8IMDb
33
Official poster for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

1989 · Science Fiction

1h 30m

6.8IMDb
34
Official poster for Street Kings (2008)

Street Kings

2008 · Action

1h 49m

6.7IMDb
35
Official poster for The Replacements (2000)

The Replacements

2000 · Comedy

1h 58m

6.7IMDb
36
Official poster for Parenthood (1989)

Parenthood

1989 · Comedy

2h 4m

6.7IMDb
37
Official poster for Always Be My Maybe (2019)

Always Be My Maybe

2019 · Romance

1h 42m

6.6IMDb
38
Official poster for The Whole Truth (2016)

The Whole Truth

2016 · Drama

1h 33m

6.6IMDb
39
Official poster for Something's Gotta Give (2003)

Something's Gotta Give

2003 · Romance

2h 8m

6.6IMDb
40
Official poster for The Neon Demon (2016)

The Neon Demon

2016 · Horror

1h 58m

6.5IMDb
41
Official poster for Hardball (2001)

Hardball

2001 · Drama

1h 46m

6.5IMDb
42
Official poster for The Gift (2000)

The Gift

2000 · Mystery

1h 52m

6.5IMDb
43
Official poster for Little Buddha (1993)

Little Buddha

1993 · Drama

2h 3m

6.3IMDb
44
Official poster for The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

The Matrix Resurrections

2021 · Action

2h 28m

6.3IMDb
45
Official poster for Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

1991 · Science Fiction

1h 33m

6.3IMDb
46
Official poster for 47 Ronin (2013)

47 Ronin

2013 · Action

1h 59m

6.2IMDb
47
Official poster for Freaked (1993)

Freaked

1993 · Science Fiction

1h 20m

6.2IMDb
48
Official poster for Replicas (2018)

Replicas

2018 · Science Fiction

1h 47m

6.0IMDb
49
Official poster for Keanu (2016)

Keanu

2016 · Action

1h 40m

6.0IMDb
50
Official poster for Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)

Bill & Ted Face the Music

2020 · Science Fiction

1h 32m

5.9IMDb
51
Official poster for Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019)

Between Two Ferns: The Movie

2019 · Comedy

1h 22m

5.9IMDb
52
Official poster for The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

2009 · Romance

1h 38m

5.8IMDb
53
Official poster for Destination Wedding (2018)

Destination Wedding

2018 · Romance

1h 30m

5.8IMDb
54
Official poster for Chain Reaction (1996)

Chain Reaction

1996 · Action

1h 47m

5.8IMDb
55
Official poster for Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

Johnny Mnemonic

1995 · Action

1h 37m

5.8IMDb
56
Official poster for The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

The Day the Earth Stood Still

2008 · Science Fiction

1h 44m

5.7IMDb
57
Official poster for Outcome (2026)

Outcome

2026 · Comedy

1h 24m

5.4IMDb
58
Official poster for Knock Knock (2015)

Knock Knock

2015 · Horror

1h 39m

5.4IMDb
59
Official poster for The Bad Batch (2017)

The Bad Batch

2017 · Romance

1h 59m

5.3IMDb
60
Official poster for The Watcher (2000)

The Watcher

2000 · Mystery

1h 36m

5.1IMDb
61
Official poster for Exposed (2016)

Exposed

2016 · Mystery

1h 42m

4.9IMDb
62
Official poster for Siberia (2018)

Siberia

2018 · Romance

1h 45m

4.8IMDb
63
Official poster for SPF-18 (2017)

SPF-18

2017 · Romance

1h 15m

4.4IMDb
64

Shiver

2027 · Science Fiction

65
Official poster for Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (2027)

Sonic the Hedgehog 4

2027 · Action

Every title

Filmography

Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.

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65 of 65 films

Official poster for The Matrix (1999)

as Neo

Directed by The Wachowskis

  • Masterpiece
  • Oscar Winner
  • Cult Classic
IMDb8.7Rotten Tomatoes92%Metacritic832h 16mSci-Fi · Action
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Official poster for The Matrix (1999)

as Neo

Directed by Lilly Wachowski

  • Cult Classic
IMDb8.3Rotten Tomatoes85%Metacritic772h 16mAction · Science Fiction
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Official poster for John Wick (2014)

as John Wick

Directed by Chad Stahelski

IMDb7.5Rotten Tomatoes75%Metacritic691h 41mAction · Thriller
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From the library

Complete credits

Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.

The defining work

Signature performances

Official poster for The Matrix (1999)

#1

Neo

The Matrix (1999)

Performance score9.5

The performance the rest of the career is read through. Neo gives Keanu Reeves a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.

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Official poster for The Matrix (1999)

#2

Neo

The Matrix (1999)

Performance score8.9

The Matrix asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Neo is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.

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Official poster for John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

#3

John Wick

John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

Performance score8.2

John Wick: Chapter 4 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. John Wick is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.

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Official poster for John Wick (2014)

#4

John Wick

John Wick (2014)

Performance score8.1

John Wick asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. John Wick is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.

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Start here

The movie journey

A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.

Official poster for The Matrix (1999)

Best entry point

The Matrix

as Neo

Start here. The Matrix is the clearest statement of what Keanu Reeves does — accessible, 136 minutes, and rated 9.2 by our editors. No context required.

Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Keanu at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.

  1. Official poster for The Devil's Advocate (1997)

    The Devil's Advocate (1997)

    A deliberate change of key after The Matrix — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.

  2. Official poster for The Matrix (1999)

    The Matrix (1999)

    A deliberate change of key after The Devil's Advocate — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.

  3. Official poster for John Wick (2014)

    John Wick (2014)

    Keeps the action register of The Matrix but asks for a colder reading of it.

  4. Official poster for John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

    John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

    Same director as John Wick, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.

Company kept

Frequent collaborators

The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.

Behind the camera

Director network

Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.

Six degrees

Connected through cinema

Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.

Recognition

Awards

6 wins

Academy Awards

1 win · latest 2000

  • Winner4 wins for the film2000

    The Matrix

MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance

1 win · latest 2000

  • WinnerMTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance2000

    as Actor

MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo

1 win · latest 1995

  • WinnerMTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo1995

    as Actor

MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Male

1 win · latest 1992

  • WinnerMTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Male1992

    as Actor

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

1 win

  • Winnerstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame

    as Actor

Time 100

1 win · latest 2022

  • WinnerTime 1002022

    as Actor

Categories of our own

Most rewatchable, most emotional, most influential

Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.

Most rewatchable

Official poster for The Matrix (1999)

The Matrix

as Neo

The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.

Most emotional performance

Official poster for A Walk in the Clouds (1995)

A Walk in the Clouds

as Paul Sutton

Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.

Most influential performance

Official poster for The Matrix (1999)

The Matrix

as Neo

You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.

Best ensemble performance

Official poster for Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks (2019)

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

as Self (archive footage)

Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.

Career defining performance

Official poster for The Matrix (1999)

The Matrix

as Neo

If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.

In their films' words

Lines that stay

You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Keanu Reeves has known it for a long time.

Nutevio Editors · On The Matrix

There is no spoon.

Spoon Boy · The Matrix (1999)

I know kung fu.

Neo · The Matrix (1999)

Head to head

Compare performers

Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.

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Nutevio Performer Score8.28.6
Career ranking#187 of 681#9 of 681
Awards on fileUnknown3 recorded
Oscar winsUnknown2
Oscar nominationsUnknown6
Average Nutevio score9.28.6
GenresSci-Fi, ActionAnimation, Family, Comedy, Drama
DirectorsThe WachowskisAndrew Stanton, Frank Darabont
Performance DNAScreen presence, Action, CharismaEmotional range, Quiet performance, Screen presence
Career timeline1999–19991999–2026
Most iconic roleNeo — The MatrixPaul Edgecomb — The Green Mile
Most rewatchable filmThe MatrixThe Green Mile
Filmography1 catalogue film2 catalogue films

Films together

Nothing in common in the library yet.

Shared directors

Nothing in common in the library yet.

Shared collections

Nothing in common in the library yet.

Tom Hanks edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.

Ours alone

Nutevio Honors

Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.

Career Achievement

Awarded

39 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.

Modern Classic Performer

Awarded

Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.

Drama Legend

Awarded

24 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.

Our desk

Editor's picks

Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.

Best ending

Official poster for The Matrix (1999)

The Matrix

as Neo

The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.

Best opening

Official poster for The Matrix (1999)

The Matrix

as Neo

A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.

Most emotional

Official poster for SPF-18 (2017)

SPF-18

as Keanu Reeves

The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.

Best twist

Official poster for Exposed (2016)

Exposed

as Detective Scott Galban

A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.

Best visual achievement

Official poster for The Matrix (1999)

The Matrix

as Neo

Images that would survive with the sound switched off.

Best action sequence

Official poster for The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

The Matrix Resurrections

as Neo / Thomas Anderson

Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.

Best dialogue

Official poster for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020)

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run

as Sage

Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.

Most underrated film

Official poster for The Matrix (1999)

The Matrix

as Neo

The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.

Across the library

Collection appearances

Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.

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Quick facts

Born
2 September 1964
Beirut, Lebanon
Age
61
Nationality
Lebanese
Years active
1988–present
Known for
Shiver
Genres
Science Fiction, Thriller, Action
IMDb
nm0000206
Nutevio rank
#29
of 909177 performers tracked

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