Keanu Reeves and new girlfriend Alexandra Grant started dating earlier this year but 'wanted to keep it quiet'

New details have emerged surrounding the relationship between Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant.

Ever since they walked the red carpet holding hands at the LACMA Art + Film Gala on the weekend, fans have wanted more details on the new couple. And now, thanks to People magazine, their questions have been answered.

"[They] started dating earlier this year, but have wanted to keep it quiet," a source told the publication. "Keanu wants to openly share his life with her. He is extremely happy and grateful to have Alex in his life."

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Turns out, before they officially became a couple, the John Wick star collaborated with Grant, who is an artist, on a few projects over the years. 

Their first known collaboration stemmed back to 2011 when Grant illustrated Reeves' first book, Ode to Happiness, a picture book that encourages adults not to take life too seriously. The pair reunited again in 2016 for Reeves' next offering Shadows, in which Grant snapped the star's silhouette in various rays of light while he provided poetic commentary. 

"It seemed to me that the shadow was the perfect sort of physical manifestation of moving through darkness into light," Grant told W Magazine at the time. "I liked that idea of the meeting place between light and dark and two different people."

Then in 2017, they teamed up to become co-founders of X Artists' Books, a publishing house with a strong focus on publishing books that "don't really have a place because they're between genres," explained Grant, who met Reeves at a dinner party in LA in 2009.

"Some people are the kind of dreamers who have a lot of ideas but don't like to get things done. I think we both like to have the idea and get it into the world," she once told Los Angeles Magazine on their various collaborations.