We’re still not sure if those were squeals of delight or howls of mourning when it became clear that Keanu Reeves was off the market.

But whichever reaction you identify with, finding out that the super-private actor had been love-pilled courtesy of visual artist Alexandra Grant was invariably good news.

“It’s been really wonderful to be with Alexandra,” Reeves, who’s turning an ageless 60 on Sept. 2, told Parade in August 2020, confirming he and his girlfriend of an undisclosed span of time had been riding out the pandemic together. “We enjoy each other’s company, you know, whatever that may be. Once the beaches opened up, we went for a motorcycle ride, and we have a couple of projects.”

While he and Grant didn’t appear on a red carpet together until November 2019, alerting the world to their coupling in the process—”I think every single person I knew called me in the first week of November,” Grant told British Vogue, “and that’s fascinating”—they met at a dinner party back in 2009.