Keanu Reeves was a successful ice hockey goalkeeper and he was considering becoming a professional ice hockey player, but he made up his mind to become an actor when he was 15. He made his acting debut in 1984 in an episode of the television series called Hangin' In. In the late 1980s, Reeves got some roles in dramas aimed at teen audiences. Reeves also wanted to give music a try and in 1991, he formed an alternative rock band called Dogstar, which was moderately successful and was active until the early 2000s. In 1991, he got a leading role in Point Break and in 1994 he starred in Speed, which established him as an action movie hero and he rose to stardom for playing Neo in the science fiction series The Matrix in the late 1990s and early 2000s.