On November 2, 2019, to everyone's surprise, Keanu Reeves appeared on the red carpet of the LACMA ceremony, an art gala in Los Angeles, with a woman. Her name is Alexandra Grant, she is a visual artist, and we quickly learn that they have known each other for at least nine years, since he had chosen her to be the illustrator of his book on happiness,
Ode to Happiness
in 2011 .
A formalization that surprises Hollywood
But what everyone remembers the day after their appearance is that she doesn't look like the women we're used to seeing on the arms of Hollywood actors... She has white hair. At that moment, it was a bit like the consecration of the “fiance of the Internet”. Everyone thinks Keanu Reeves is really great because he's dating a woman his age. When in fact, she is 47 years old, or 8 years younger than him… Alexandra Grant then confided to
Vogue
magazine that her entire telephone directory called her the next day, saying: “Wait, you're going out really with Keanu Reeves?!?”
A love story that endures
After their first public appearance, the couple appeared hand in hand on 5th Avenue in New York, bursting out laughing on the red carpet of a gala in Los Angeles in 2022, and even talking to each other. kiss in front of photographers at the same gala a year later. In a rare interview given to People magazine in early 2023, and when the journalist asks him to talk about his last moment of happiness, the actor responds: “It was a few days ago with my darling, we were in bed, we were connected. We smiled, we laughed, we giggled. We felt wonderful.” Ultimately, it's a bit like Keanu Reeves as we've never seen him. And the question we can ask ourselves is: the man we have always imagined alone, introverted, kind but a little sad, is he not really happy for the first time with his life ?