After the film became a hit, fans decided to track down the real life Willy, an orca named Keiko. They found the poor killer ...

The orca Keiko was taken from the wild as a young whale before spending most of his life in captivity. Once fans, especially children, of the 1993 film learned that the animal star didn't enjoy ...

The adult female, seeking a new home with her calf after the closure of Marineland in France, faces the grim reality of ...

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 ...

Free Willy star Keiko’s real-life rescue story is as dramatic as the film’s The Free Willy movies, which told the story of a troubled boy’s unusual friendship with a killer whale ...