Ellen Pompeo, who plays Meredith Grey, on the ABC hit TV show Grey’s Anatomy is engaged to record producer Chris Ivery.

Pompeo added, “We were six degrees our whole lives, so I feel like we were sort of meant to be. We’ll get married eventually, secretly.”

The two Boston natives dated for two and a half years before Ivery popped the question after lunch this past Friday morning on Pompeo’s 37th birthday.

The rock is 3.5 carat emerald cut diamond in a platinum setting.

No wedding date has been set and they plan to wed in secret.