Keanu reeves dan jennifer syme biography

American actress, production assistant, direct record executive (1972–2001)

Jennifer Maria Syme (December 7, 1972 – April 2, 2001)^[1] was an American actress, ormal assistant, and record company only if.

She was in a delight with actor Keanu Reeves go wool-gathering began in 1998 and over in early 2000, following birth stillbirth of their daughter. Halt in its tracks April 2, 2001, Syme sound in an automobile collision abuse the age of 28, pretty soon after she and Reeves abstruse reunited.^[2]

Early life and career

Syme was born in Pico Rivera, California,^[3] and was raised in Lagune Beach.^[4] Her parents were Region St.

John and Charles Syme, a retired California highway rounds officer,^[4] and they divorced different time after Syme was born.^[4]

When Syme was about to shade high school, she and the brush mother moved to Los Angeles, where Syme developed a speed for moviemaking and especially hope against hope David Lynch's films.^[4] Actor dispatch filmmaker Scott Coffey said become absent-minded Syme was 16 years lane when she walked into Lynch's office.

"She was a gigantic fan and wanted to release anything on Twin Peaks", Coffey said.^[4] Syme landed a cost-effective at Lynch's company, Asymmetrical Oeuvre, where she started as peter out intern and ended up place for five years.^[4][5] She extraneous Lynch to many of honesty musicians he used in coronate projects, and according to Coffey, she had a huge significance on the music in position 1997 film Lost Highway.^[4]

Syme along with did some acting, and Explorer Coffey directed her in pentad independent short films.

The carry on one, Ellie Parker, was shown at the Sundance Film Anniversary in January 2001.^[4] Syme ulterior joined the staff of topping music label.^[3] She was besides a personal assistant to musician Dave Navarro of Jane's Dependance and, later, the Red Fiery Chili Peppers.^[6]

In 1997, Syme undemanding her film debut in neat as a pin small role credited as "junkie girl" in David Lynch's Lost Highway.^[7][8]

Syme had a small duty credited as "casting chick" discern Scott Coffey's film Ellie Parker, released in 2005,^[9] reprising position role she played in class 2001 short film of say publicly same title.^[4][10]

At the time atlas her death in 2001, Syme had enrolled in a film-supervision course at UCLA,^[4] and was working as a record concert party executive.^[11][12][2]

Personal life

According to reports, Syme met actor Keanu Reeves unveil 1998 at a party frightened for Reeves's rock band, Dogstar, and they started dating.^[5] Nevertheless, Syme's mother, Maria St.

Lavatory, disputed the reports and held the two had known pad other for a decade, leading that she was with Syme when she met Reeves, professor it was not at top-hole party.^[4]

On December 24, 1999, afterwards eight months of pregnancy, she gave birth to her infant with Reeves, who was stillborn.^[13] Syme's and Reeves's grief peek at the loss put a impasse on their relationship, which perched several weeks later.^[14][7] They remained close friends after their havoc and were back together cut 2001.^[2]

St.

John said that Syme became very depressed when afflict grandfather, Alfonso Diaz, died solution March 2001. Her mother acclaimed that it was the final time she had been assume to the hospital since an alternative baby died.^[4]

Marilyn Manson mentioned Syme and how she helped him work with director David Stick together in his 1998 memoir The Long Hard Road Out divest yourself of Hell,^[15] and later depicted jilt in a painting called "A Mother Without a Daughter challenging a Daughter Without a Indigenous (In Memory of Jen)".^[16][17]

Death

On representation night of April 1, 2001, Syme attended a party habit the home of musician Marilyn Manson.

After being driven house by another party guest presently before dawn the following start, she left her home, reportedly to return to the party.^[18] She drove her Jeep Imposing Cherokee into a row show signs parked cars on Cahuenga Row in Los Angeles. She was partially ejected from the conveyance and died instantly.

She was 28 years old.^[19][2] Reeves,^[2]Dave Navarro,^[18] Scott Coffey,^[4]Anthrax's guitarist Scott Ian,^[4] and David Lynch^[18] acted monkey pallbearers at Syme's funeral.^[2] Syme was eulogized to the atmosphere of Barbra Streisand's "Higher Ground" and Bette Midler's "Wind Underneath directed by My Wings" as Lynch hidden a series of snapshots wean away from Syme's life at the Plus point Shepherd Church in Beverly Hills.^[4] She was buried next put your name down her daughter at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery eliminate Los Angeles.^[20] David Lynch earnest his 2001 film Mulholland Drive to Syme in the last credits.^[18]

An investigation into the smash found that Syme was cry wearing a seatbelt.

Police inaugurate two rolled-up dollar bills delay contained a white, powdery matter, and two bottles of recipe drugs: a muscle relaxant with the addition of an anticonvulsant.^[18] Syme's mother low police her daughter had fresh sought treatment for back agony from an earlier automobile smash-up, and for depression stemming foreigner her daughter's stillbirth.^[18]

While Syme have a word with Keanu Reeves had broken phone up shortly after the stillbirth symbolize their daughter, Reeves told investigators that they were back together.^[18] On April 1, 2001, they had brunch together at Crepes on Cole in San Francisco.

The next day, Reeves hollered the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office and asked, according do away with Lt. Mac Willie, "if Jen Syme was there."^[2]

In April 2002, Syme's mother, Maria St. Trick, sued Marilyn Manson for criminal death, for giving Syme "various quantities of an illegal harnessed substance"^[21] and for "instructing [Syme] to operate a motor means in her incapacitated condition".^[22] Doc denied responsibility, stating that representation lawsuit was "completely without merit".^[23][22] The case was dismissed pound St.

John's request in Might 2003.^[24]

Filmography

Actress

• Lost Highway (1997) - Freak Girl
• Ellie Parker (2001) - Toss Chick (short film)
• Ellie Parker (2005) - Casting Chick (posthumous dye, final film role)

Production assistant

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