Keanu Reeves and his girlfriend Alexandra Grant, a secret but consolidated relationship
The couple were seen in public for the first time in November but have been together for two years and have known each other for more than a decade.
Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant have been dating for a long time and theirs is a consolidated relationship, although it was not heard from until last November. Grant's friend, actress Jennifer Tilly, spoke about the couple as she supported the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women Red Dress Collection on Wednesday night. "I remember a couple of years ago, she said to me: Keanu Reeves is my boyfriend." Reeves and Grant made their public debut as a couple in November at the LACMA Art + Film gala hosted by fashion house Gucci in Los Angeles, California.
And Jennifer Tilly adds: "It's really amazing to me how in the last five months, all of a sudden, she goes to an event with him and everyone goes crazy and calls her her new girlfriend." Reeves, 55, is one of the most discreet and introverted actors in the film industry and little is known about his private life. "I saw him at his last art opening, and he doesn't want to be the center of attention because he's also a very low-key guy, and I think the reason they all freaked out is that they are the perfect match. I think everyone wishes have something like that. " She describes Grant as a "cool and elegant woman" who is "very quiet, very low-key." "Keanu is also a great guy. He wants to openly share her life with her," adds Tilly.
The actor's life is full of shadows since the death of his good friend River Phoenix when he was very young, the tragedy that devastated his life. In the late 1990s, he and his then-girlfriend Jennifer Syme were expecting their first child together. The little girl was born still and, a year and a half later, Syme, sunk in a deep depression, died in a traffic accident.
In addition to being an artist and entrepreneur, Grant is also a philanthropist and has created the GrantLOVE project. Through it, she has obtained funds for different solidarity associations in the city of Los Angeles, thanks to the sale of works of art that she creates.
The actor's childhood was marked by the alcoholism of his father who ended up abandoning the family that he formed with his mother and his sister, Kim, two years younger than him. Although she was born in Beirut, she has Canadian nationality, which is the country that welcomed them when her mother decided to move with her children to another place where she could look for a new future after having to work as a stripper to raise her two children.
The loss of loved ones and cancer are two concepts that appear repeatedly in his biography and that have marked him. After the disappearance of his father, Reeves experienced the illness of his little sister, who suffered from leukemia that she managed to overcome after months of treatment. When he started in the film industry, after giving up his passion for hockey due to a serious injury, he met River Phoenix, a filming partner on My Private Idaho and since that time one of his closest friends. An overdose of speedball - a mixture of cocaine and heroin - killed Phoenix on a sidewalk near a bar owned by Johnny Deep, an event that devastated Reeves and has haunted him for years.
