The Matrix
1999 film by the Wachowskis · Released March 31, 1999
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction–action film written and directed by the Wachowskis. The first installment in the Matrix film series, it stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. The film follows a disillusioned computer hacker Neo (Reeves) who discovers that the life he knows is an elaborate deception created by intelligent machines. He is recruited by underground insurgents Morpheus (Fishburne) and Trinity (Moss), to join the rebellion against the machines.
Cast ages when filming began (March 1998)
- Laurence Fishburne, as Morpheus: 36
- Carrie-Anne Moss, as Trinity: 30
- Joe Pantoliano, as Cypher: 46
- Keanu Reeves, as Neo: 33
- Gloria Foster, as The Oracle: 64
- Julian Arahanga, as Apoc: 25
- Anthony Ray Parker, as Dozer: 39
- Marcus Chong, as Tank: 30
- Matt Doran, as Mouse: 21–22
- Belinda McClory, as Switch: 29
- Paul Goddard, as Agent Brown: 34
- Robert Taylor, as Agent Jones: 34
- Ada Nicodemou, as DuJour: 20
- Rowan Witt, as The Spoon Boy: 9