was one the first people tapped to help with the ambitious project of returning the whale actor from Free Willy to the wild. The orca Keiko was taken from the wild as a young whale before spending ...

But it seems that Keiko, the most famous whale in the world, cannot live without human contact, as the main picture shows. The 33ft-long star of the film Free Willy is frolicking in a Norwegian ...

deriving from his longtime fascination with the famous orca he idolized as a child in Mexico City. After becoming a star on Free Willy, Keiko was the subject of an international campaign to ...

The orca Keiko ... to a sea sanctuary by signing a petition and sharing the whales' story. Phillips is confident a chorus of outspoken voices can lead to change because it happened with Keiko. "We can ...

Free Willy Keiko Foundation Keiko the killer whale Phillips tells PEOPLE he hopes ... rights supporters are pushing to move them to a sea sanctuary instead. Because both orcas were born in ...