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video icon ” Keanu Reeves'” – Canada’s Walk of Fame inductee speech. – etalk [youtube] (7:11 min)
Describing himself as a “private kid”,[24] Reeves attended four different high schools, including the Etobicoke School of the Arts, from which he was expelled. Reeves said he was expelled because he was “just a little too rambunctious and shot my mouth off once too often … I was not generally the most well-oiled machine in the school”.[17] Reeves has dyslexia and has said, “Because I had trouble reading, I wasn’t a good student”.[25] At De La Salle College, he was a successful ice hockey goalkeeper.[26] Reeves had aspirations to play for the Canadian Olympic team and was once considered an OHL prospect, but his hockey career ended due to injury.[d][28] At the age of fifteen, he decided he wanted to become an actor.[29] After leaving De La Salle College, he attended Avondale Secondary Alternative School, which allowed him to get an education while working as an actor. Reeves dropped out of high school when he was seventeen.[30] He obtained a green card through his American stepfather and moved to Los Angeles three years later.[18] Reeves holds only Canadian citizenship.[8][9]
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