Neo is the protagonist of The Matrix franchise, a fictional character created by the Wachowskis and played by Keanu Reeves in the films. By day he is Thomas A. Anderson, a respectable software programmer. At night he is a renegade hacker who sells illegal software to criminals, until Morpheus offers him the red pill and frees him from the Matrix, a simulated reality built by sentient machines.

He is revealed to be The One, the anomaly who can free humanity, and he learns to f