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Keanu Reeves in December in San Francisco
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The Canadian actor Keanu Reeves donated 70 percent of his income from the first three "Matrix" films to cancer research, as reported by several media outlets, including the New York Post and the Los Angeles Times.
Why Reeves, 57, spends so much money researching leukemia lies in his own family.
In 1991 his younger sister Kim fell ill with leukemia and for many years she fought the cancer, which she survived.
Reeves set up his own foundation to support children's hospitals and cancer research.
In 2009 he spoke about it for the first time and mentioned that he had deliberately not named the foundation after himself.
"I don't like to associate my name with it, I just let the foundation do what it does."
Reeves raised money for children during the corona pandemic.
In 2020, the actor auctioned a 15-minute zoom date on himself. A woman paid $ 19,000 for it, and Reeves donated it to a summer program for children with cancer.
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