Not a lot of information is available about Keanu Reeves’s homes—likely because for a long time, the actor was a bit of a drifter. He resided in hotels and rentals before eventually settling down into home ownership at the tender age of 40 (he reportedly bought his mother a Los Angeles property first). The actor’s transient lifestyle reflects his upbringing—born in Beirut in 1964 to a British mother and a Chinese Hawaiian father, Reeves reportedly lived in Lebanon, Australia, and America before his family landed in Toronto when he was seven. The Canadian actor is technically not a US citizen, though he has mostly stayed in the Los Angeles area since moving there as a teenager to pursue acting.
“When we started this movie, I asked [Reeves] if he was still living in a hotel, and he said, ‘No, I’m ready to put some roots down somewhere,’” the actor’s Sweet November costar Charlize Theron said in a 2000 interview. “Before I think he liked the idea of living out of a suitcase…. I think he’s now learned you can be a free spirit and have the other things as well,” she observed. At the time, Reeves primarily resided in a room at his sister’s home in Los Angeles while house-shopping for a place in Malibu. Three years later, the Bill & Ted star finally found his forever home, though he ultimately opted for a property in the Hollywood Hills instead of the beachy enclave. Read on for a rundown on Reeves’s Tinseltown pad and the iconic hotel where he lived for years prior.
The Chateau Marmont
For years in the ’90s and early aughts, Reeves resided at a suite in the Chateau Marmont, one of the Matrix star’s longtime haunts. “He’d often wander around the hotel’s grounds, rather ghostlike,” a source from the famed establishment told Page Six in 2022.
In a 2019 Alta Journal article, journalist and entrepreneur Tom Zito recounted his six-month stint living next door to the enigmatic actor in the Chateau in 1995: “Typically, Keanu Reeves was coming home early in the morning when I was heading out, parking his motorcycle in the garage while I was climbing into my jeep. We’d salute each other, and he’d say, ‘I’ve got the place covered while you’re away.’”
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Back then, the Chateau was “a little run-down,” as the actor described in the 2012 documentary Sunset Strip: “In room 21 there was Astroturf. You know, you didn’t really want to take your shoes off. But that was part of its charm,” he explained. “The Chateau Marmont became a kind of home. Thanksgivings, and having Christmas, and then having friends stay. It felt like my unsafe safe harbor. I had some really great, crazy, wild times there.” Reeves elaborated on the hotel’s atmosphere during that era more explicitly in a 2019 GQ feature: “You could have a conversation. You could have a tryst. You could fucking do drugs. You could hang out. For me, there’s still that pulse here.” The beloved landmark continues to serve as Reeves’s setting of choice for many of his interviews.
Hollywood Hills home
