Keanu Reeves and girlfriend Alexandra Grant enjoyed a rare red carpet date night on Saturday, April 13.
The couple attended the 2024 Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Gala at The Geffen Contemporary in Los Angeles. John Wick The 59-year-old star wore a dark suit with a scarf and tan boots, while Grant, 51, looked stunning in a blue dress with a deep V-neckline and small side cutouts and carried a light pink clutch.
The couple was even seen kissing before the event.
Reeves and Grant, an artist, met at a dinner party in 2009 and quickly became friends. The relationship eventually became romantic and the private couple have been together since at least 2017. In 2019, they made their romance public.
Reeves and Grant are “typically homebodies who prefer quiet nights alone or small get-togethers with friends,” an insider said Us weekly in November 2023. If they decide to appear in front of the camera, there is usually a good reason behind it. Saturday’s gala supported the Museum of Contemporary Art, which houses several of Grant’s works.
“Things are great between them. They are very happy together,” the insider added in November, weeks after they attended the LACMA Art + Film Gala.
Although they dress smartly for formal occasions, the two are generally quite reserved. “[They are] Both are very relaxed and easygoing by nature,” said a second source Us last fall, he called the pair an “amazing match.”
The first collaboration happened by chance in 2011. Her book, Ode to happiness, adds his poetic text to her drawings, but Grant only made the illustrations as a gift to Reeves. “The book was made by me as a surprise for Keanu, as a private gift,” Grant said British Vogue in 2020. “All of our friends sitting in the room giggled when I gave it to him – they said, ‘Please publish it!’ That’s how we got into publishing.”
Grant noted that they are both artists and “storytelling is at the heart of our work,” she said People in September 2023.
“My work is much more of a private performance, but I have a text that I interpret in the studio into a painting, into an object,” Grant explained. “He records the text privately and then turns it into a public performance. … There is a relationship. We are both readers and researchers at heart. We both care about people and we care about characters.”