Allison Williams of ‘Girls’ engaged to Ricky Van Veen

Allison Williams, a star of HBO’s “Girls� and the daughter of NBC newsman Brian Williams, is reportedly engaged to Ricky Van Veen, her boyfriend of three years.

The actress met the co-founder of the CollegeHumor website through mutual friends, according to People magazine, which first announced the news. And her dad “likes him a lot,� she told Larry King in January.

Williams, 25 and a Yale graduate in English, plays Marnie on Lena Dunham’s cable comedy about four single twentysomething women in New York City.

Speaking with King on his Ora-TV show but not naming names, she described Van Veen as an “entrepreneurial kind of guy.� She told King that their relationship was “serious,� while playing it cagey about any details. “I just can’t believe you’re getting me to talk about this,� she said, laughing and then describing her personal life as “a part of life that is more private than the rest of it.�

Williams appeared Wednesday on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show� (see above), talking a lot about how she got into acting -- which her parents made sure happened after she graduated from college.

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