Keanu Reeves is a spectacular actor and producer for movies. He is in movies like John wick, The Matrix, Dracula, Constantine. He is surprisingly older than I thought. He is 53 years old with a birth date of September 2nd, 1964. Keanu Reeves is a influential advocate of cancer through is action including his sisters fight of cancer, foundation, and not attaching his name. Keanu started his cancer foundation after his sister was fought cancer. “Sometime in the 90’s one of Reeve’s sisters was diagnosed with leukemia a type of cancer,” wrote the list. (O’Brien) One of Reeve’s sisters was diagnosed with a type of cancer. She has gone through remission later in the 90’s. This must have been hard to go through . Certainly, one of the big …show more content…
“I have a private foundation that’s been running for five or six years, and it helps aid a couple of children’s hospitals and cancer research,” Said Reeves. (Lippo) Reeves has been running a private foundation that helps those with cancer and children in hospitals. This has been going on for 6 years or so. Raising money for the cancer patients and the children hospitals. This impacted society by having more research be done for cancer. Reeves also decided not to attach his name to the foundation. “I don’t like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does,” Said Keanu. (Teal) With him not attaching his name there is more attention to the foundation. Not attention towards him. He wants the foundation to do his work and not have people talking to him about it. He cares more for the research and the children. That’s why he doesn’t want his name attached to it so the foundation can do its work. This is important because then more people pay attention to the children hospitals and the research Reeves is a great advocate of cancer research because of his foundation and the way he started it. Keanu will always be in those eyes of who he has