Alexandra Grant: what is known about her beloved Keanu Reeves and why she is confused with Helen Mirren
'08.11.2019'
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Perhaps most of all the attention at the Art + Film gala evening, which took place a week ago at the LACMA Museum in Los Angeles, attracted the 55-year-old Keanu Reeves. However, they discussed not so much the actor himself as his lover - 46-year-old artist Alexandra Grant. By the way, some fans decided that the artist appeared in public with the 74-year-old actress Helen Mirren - and she even commented on her similarity with Alexandra.
Lovers held hands and posed for photographers with pleasure, writes Gossip. Keanu, whose personal life was full of tragedies (20 years ago, his girlfriend Jennifer Syme, in the eighth month of pregnancy gave birth to a dead daughter, and then two years later she died in a car accident), looked very happy.
According to insiders, at the evening, Keanu and Alexander had fun in the company of friends and took joint pictures on their phones. The actor introduced his chosen one to star colleagues, including Will Ferrell, who came to the event with his wife.
Fate several times pushed the actor with an eccentric artist. And then the last meeting last year turned out to be fatal for both of them, says Teleprogramma.pro.
Keanu Reeves is an atypical Hollywood handsome actor.
He does not twist high-profile novels with fashion models. But for many years he is the founder of the fund for helping cancer patients, donates money to the organization for the protection of animals. Anyway, the actor lives modestly, rides the subway and never refuses to take pictures with his fans.
Alexandra Grant is an art critic with a special view of the world.
Their love story is another proof that you can’t escape fate: for ten years, life has pushed them together so often until both of them could see their soul mates in each other.
They first saw each other in 2009. Reeves immediately attracted this unusual woman. Grant was born into a Jewish family in Ohio, but did not stay long in the States. And with his parents all childhood traveled around the world - Spain, Mexico, France ...
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When traveling for the first time, a blond girl showed an interest in art. She painted for hours, sculpted, wrote poetry. By the time she entered college, Alexander returned to the States and studied art criticism in Philadelphia.
Grant did not dig into the piles of books, but immediately began to create. Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles and New York.
In 2011, Alexandra teamed up with Reeves to publish his book, Ode to Happiness and Shadows (Ode to Happiness and Shadow). The star of the Matrix, having heard about the talent of the artist, invited her to draw funny black and white illustrations.
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Working relations have grown into friendships, and those with time - into friendships. Grant enthusiastically photographed Reeves in 2016 on the set of John Wick.
At the same time, according to eyewitnesses, Alexandra never lost her speech at the sight of one of the most famous men on the planet. On the contrary, she could argue with him for hours, proving her innocence.
Once, in an interview with LA Times, she said why it was her photographs of a star that attracted so much attention. The girl noticed that throughout the filming she tried to imagine that she was dancing with Reeves.
“I knew that if I moved the camera as if we were dancing together, we would be able to create these amazing optical illusions,” she said.
And a year ago, Reeves and Grant again joined forces to establish a small publishing house X Artists Books. At the same time, the screen star helped her friend release two books: MOCA Focus and The Artists Prison. Both are somehow related to art.
It is curious that the press did not try to convict the couple in the novel, as the journalists were sure that Reeves was hiding the long-legged beauty model somewhere. But this is exactly what played into the hands of the stars. While everyone around them saw friends in them, they calmly continued to open each other.
And finally, on the red carpet of the Art + Film charity evening at the LACMA Museum in Los Angeles, they posed for photographers, holding hands tightly.
Confused with Helen Mirren
Some, as it turned out, confused Alexandra Grant with the famous British actress and Oscar winner Helen Mirren. Which is not surprising, because in her 74 years she looks simply stunning and really very similar to Reeves companion, writes Medialeaks.
As it turned out, these conversations reached Mirren herself, as she told Entertainment Tonight. But they didn’t offend her at all.
“It flattered me a lot. You know, it's obvious that she's beautiful, ”the actress admitted.
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Although Mirren does not meet with Keanu, he has known him for many years. In 1997, actress Taylor Hackford's husband starred with him in Devil's Advocate, and Helen describes him as "the most charming and sweetest person."
“So she's a happy girl and he is, I hope, a happy guy,” Mirren said.
Interesting facts about Alexander Grant
- Alexandra Grant was born in Ohio in the 1973 year.
- She spent part of her childhood in Mexico, Spain and France.
- She graduated from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where she received a master's degree in painting, and Sworthmore College in Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in history and studio art.
- In 2008, Alexandra founded the grantLOVE project, designed to help non-profit organizations related to the arts.
- Grant's works have been exhibited at many world famous museums, including the Los Angeles Museum of Art, the Gradiva Gallery in Paris and The Harris Lieberman Gallery in New York.
- In 2015, Alexandra directed the documentary Taking Lena Home about the return of a stolen tombstone to Nebraska.
- In 2017, together with Reeves, they founded the publishing company X Artists' Books.
- Nothing is known about her personal life. Apparently, she was not married, like Keanu.
