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Olivia Wilde arrives with ‘Predator’ actor Dan DeLiGro at a Lakers game

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Olivia Wilde watched the Lakers beat the Celtics alongside actor and former basketball player Dane DeLiGro, best known for playing “Fris.”

Dane Diliegro and Olivia Wilde watched the Celtics-Lakers game together Thursday night. Monica Sheber/Getty; Jordan Strauss/AP

Actress Olivia Wilde (“House”) was front and center at the Celtics-Lakers game Thursday night, attending the game alongside the former basketball player turned actor originally from Lexington.

Wilde and actor Dane Diliegro, best known for playing the Predators in the 2022 film “Prey,” sat courtside at Arena Crypto.com on Thursday as the Celtics fell to the Lakers, 117-96.

Pictures from the game show the pair Share some smiles, conversation and diliegro, 36, With his arm around Wilde, 40.

Wilde and DeLiGro were in good company at the game, sitting in a section with comedian (and Arlington native) Dan Cook and his wife, Kelsey Taylor; Lakers President/Owner Jeanie Buss and her husband, comedian Jay Mohr; And former Lakers forward Danny Green, who officially He announced his retirement from the NBA In October.

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Wilde is no stranger to examining her love life. She married a Philips Academy graduate Italian Prince Tao Ruspoli From 2003 to 2011, before she started a relationship with “Ted Lasso” actor Jason Sudeikis.

Wilde and Sudeikis, who welcomed two children together, had A sharp breakup in 2020. Not long after that, Wilde began dating singer Harry Styles, who was starring in the Wilde-directed film Don’t Worry Darling.

After graduating from Lexington High School, DeliGro was a four-year starter for the University of New Hampshire basketball team and later played abroad, mostly in Italy.

DeLiGro’s most notable work to date has come in creature actor roles in films like “Prey” and “Fantasy,” but his next project will tap into his hoops acumen, playing Eastern European basketball player Darragh Knaus in the Mindy Kaling-produced Netflix series “Running Point”.

The comedy series, debuting February 27, stars Kate Hudson A character similar to Jenny Buss She was appointed president of the Los Angeles surfing club after her brother resigned in disgrace. Besides DeliGro and Hudson, “Running Point” also features Brenda Song, Drew Tarver, Scott MacArthur, Fabrizio Guido, Toby Sandeman, Chet Hanks, Jay Ellis and Max Greenfield.

In a 2022 interview with Boston.com, DeLiGro said his goal was to forge a career that didn’t depend solely on playing monsters buried under layers of prosthetics and makeup.

“The dream is to do a project where you can see my face,” DeLiGro said. “I want people to get to know the man under the rubber.”

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