Keanu Reeves and his longtime love Alexandra Grant looked festive as they stepped out in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve.
Alexandra, 51, and Keanu, 60, first met at a dinner in 2009 and collaborated on two art books together before officially appearing on the red carpet in 2019.
However, in the intervening years they have tended to protect their privacy and rarely discuss the details of their relationship in public.
When they were seen this Tuesday, both seemed blissfully happy in each other’s company, both wearing wide smiles.
Her gray baseball cap featured salmon-colored accents that elegantly complemented the hot pink background of the sweater she was wearing.
To add an extra touch of seasonal cheer to his ensemble, Keanu wrapped himself in a bright red scarf that brought back memories of last week’s Christmas.
Keanu Reeves and his longtime love Alexandra Grant looked festive as they stepped out in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve.
She layered a thick gray jacket over her look, while Alexandra wore a lighter gray sleeveless top over a matching sweater.
Earlier this month, the couple was dressed to the nines as they hit the red carpet for the Los Angeles premiere of their new movie Sonic The Hedgehog 3.
Keanu voices the villain Shadow The Hedgehog, among a cast that includes Ben Schwartz, Jim Carrey, Idris Elba, James Marsden and Krysten Ritter.
During the premiere, Keanu was asked if he considered the event an example of a “date night” for him and Alexandra.
‘I guess it is! “Yeah, we got ready and it’s been really exciting and a little stressful in the car, but coming out it was like, I don’t know, it’s really special to be next to each other,” he said. Entertainment tonight.
Alexandra found herself on the business end of an internet frenzy when she officially appeared on the red carpet with Keanu at the LACMA Art + Film Gala in early November 2019.
“I think everyone I met called me in the first week of November, and that’s fascinating,” he said. British Vogue a few months later.
When asked in 2020 about the prospect of marriage, he said: ‘Love on all levels is deeply important to my identity. What do you think of avoiding the question?
Alexandra and Keanu first met at a dinner in 2009 and collaborated on two art books together before hitting the official red carpet in 2019.
And he added: ‘I don’t think isolation is the way. There is a period of isolation that I do as a painter, but I deeply value the experience of being in relationships.’
When they went official on the red carpet, they had been friends for about a decade and it was reported that Keanu wanted the romance to come to light.
They first collaborated in 2011 on Keanu’s book Ode to Happiness, which she illustrated. The project marked her first book as an artist and his first as a writer.
They worked together again on the actor’s 2016 book Shadows, to which Alexandra once again contributed artwork.
She is his first known girlfriend since Jennifer Syme, who died in a car accident in 2001, less than four months after giving birth to her and Keanu’s stillborn baby.
Earlier this month, the couple was dressed to the nines as they hit the red carpet for the Los Angeles premiere of their new movie Sonic The Hedgehog 3.
In 2010, a photograph surfaced of the Matrix star sitting sadly on a park bench, giving rise to the wildly viral ‘Sad Keanu’ meme.
When the meme took off, there was much speculation that its expression was related to the devastating losses it had suffered over the past decade.
However, in a 2021 interview in The last show with Stephen Colbert Keanu said he actually looked helpless in the picture because he was hungry.
‘Man, I’m eating a sandwich!’ the movie star said of the image. ‘I was thinking. I had some things to do. I was hungry.’