Keanu Reeves is an actor.
Keanu Reeves . However , Reeves has spent much of his later career being typecast . My Own Private Idaho is a 1991 American independent adventure drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant , loosely based on Shakespeare 's Henry IV , Part 1 , Henry IV , Part 2 , and Henry V , and starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves . In television , film , and theatre , typecasting is the process by which a particular actor becomes strongly identified with a specific character ; one or more particular roles ; or , characters having the same traits or coming from the same social or ethnic groups .