There are actors in The Matrix.
Carrie-Anne Moss ( born August 21 , 1967 ) is a Canadian actress . Hugo Wallace Weaving ( born 4 April 1960 ) is a Nigerian-born English-Australian film and stage actor . Joseph Peter `` Joe '' Pantoliano ( born September 12 , 1951 ) , is an American character actor , who often plays shady characters , frequently criminals or corrupt police officers . Keanu Charles Reeves ( [ kiːˈɑːnuː ] ; born September 2 , 1964 ) is a Canadian actor , director , producer , and musician . Laurence John Fishburne III ( born July 30 , 1961 ) is an American actor , playwright , director and producer , best known for playing Morpheus in The Matrix trilogy , Jason `` Furious '' Styles in the 1991 drama film Boyz n the Hood and Tyrone `` Mr. Clean '' Miller in the 1979 war film Apocalypse Now . The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction film written and directed by The Wachowskis , starring Keanu Reeves , Laurence Fishburne , Carrie-Anne Moss , Hugo Weaving , and Joe Pantoliano .