Jennifer Tilly Confirms Her Friend Alexandra Grant Has Been Dating Keanu Reeves “for Several Years”

From Cosmopolitan

• Actor Keanu Reeves and artist Alexandra Grant held hands while walking the LACMA Art + Film Gala red carpet together.

• Now, everyone is asking who Keanu’s new girlfriend is and when they started dating, because the public is nosy AF.

• Alexandra’s friend Jennifer Tilly clarified that Alexandra and Keanu have actually been dating for years.

Raise your hand if you’ve been swooning over Keanu Reeves since he and Sandra Bullock escaped a rigged bus in Speed?

Cool, now that we’ve settled that, I have some bittersweet news: Keanu recently hit the red carpet holding hands with someone who isn’t you. Before you flip a table, know that it’s been more than a decade since he’s walked a red carpet with a date and Keanu deserves this, okay?

Keanu held hands with an artist named Alexandra Grant at the LACMA Art + Film Gala in Los Angeles, looking all kinds of cute.

Sooo, does this mean he and Alexandra are dating? Up until now, it was unclear, but her friend and actress Jennifer Tilly just confirmed they’ve been dating for a looong time. And this is an even bigger deal because Keanu hasn’t been in a public relationship since he dated Jennifer Syme in the ’90s.

If you haven’t heard of Alexandra before, though, allow me to catch you up to speed.

Alexandra Grant is an artist.

Alexandra is a talented artist whose work involves painting, drawing, photography, and books. The Museum of Contemporary Art in L.A. features some of her work, and Alexandra seems to especially like mixing text and neon prints in unique ways.

Check out some of her art for yourself:

She and Keanu have actually collaborated before.

Remember when Keanu wrote a book in 2011 called Ode to Happiness? Okay, I also missed that milestone, but it turns out Alexandra didn’t! She provided the illustrations for the debut book. They continued collaborating and being cute about it. Later on, People reports, they cofounded X Artists’ Books, a publishing house, together.

“Some people are kind of dreamers who have a lot of ideas but don’t like to get things done,” Alexandra told Los Angeles Magazine about the project. “I think we both like to have the idea and get it into the world.”

Check out this video from 2016 that shows them sitting at a book presentation:

This is not Alexandra’s “red-carpet debut” with Keanu, technically.

While the collective internet at large is losing its mind over how sweet Alexandra and Keanu looked at the LACMA Art + Film Gala on Sunday, this is not their first rodeo. The two quietly attended Saint Laurent’s Malibu runway show in June, where they also held hands.

And they did the same thing at a MOCA Benefit back in May, which somehow flew under the radar.

And they hung out three years ago at the UNAIDS Galaat Design Miami/Basel in Switzerland.

Fun fact: Alexandra and Keanu have actually been dating for years.

Talking to Page Six, Jennifer Tilly recounted how Alexandra broke the news that she was dating Keanu. She told the outlet, “I remember a couple years ago, about a year and a half ago, [Alexandra] said, ‘Keanu Reeves is my boyfriend,’ and I’m like, ‘Wait. What? What? What?’”

Jennifer went on to say all the recent attention on Alexandra is weird because this is far from a new relationship. “She had gone to a lot of events with him,” Jennifer added. “It’s just suddenly surfaced that he’s been dating her for several years....He’s not, like, wanting the spotlight because he’s a really low-key guy too, and I think why everybody went crazy is that they’re sort of the perfect couple.”

It sure looks like Alexandra has an Instagram.

She mostly posts about art, of course, but her Insta also reveals she became an ordained minister to officiate her friends’ wedding.

She’s also used her Instagram to sound off on beauty standards, like she did when she posted a Newsweek article and discussed her own hair color.

She also posts cute throwbacks.

Now if only she could get Keanu to join Insta....

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