What Alexandra Grant Loves About Longtime Partner Keanu Reeves

Following “Ode to Happiness,” author Keanu Reeves and illustrator Alexandra Grant were frequently spotted together and continued to collaborate artistically. But as it turns out, Reeves and Grant’s romance began much earlier than anyone suspected. In 2020, Jennifer Tilly, a friend of the couple’s, told Page Six she was surprised at how long it took the public to catch on to the relationship. “It’s astonishing to me how in the last five months, all of a sudden, she goes to an event with him, and everybody goes insane, like, ‘It’s his new girlfriend,’ because she had gone to a lot of events with him. It’s just suddenly surfaced that he’s been dating her for several years.” 

Reeves and Grant’s steadfast dedication to their professional pursuits likely helped keep their romance private. In 2016, they worked together on Reeves’ second book, “Shadows,” and launched X Artists’ Books, a boutique publishing company, in 2017. Grant touched on this juxtaposition of private and public art, telling People, “My work is much more of a private performance, but I have a text that I interpret in the studio into a painting. He takes the text in private and then turns it into a performance in public. There’s a relationship.”