Actress Eva Longoria, left, and her boyfriend, NBA basketball player Tony Parker

Actress Eva Longoria, who plays a divorcee on the prowl on the hit television drama "Desperate Housewives," is engaged to marry her basketball star boyfriend Tony Parker, her spokeswoman said on Thursday.

"I am thrilled to announce that Eva Longoria and Tony Parker, who have been dating steadily for two years, are officially engaged," Longoria's representative Liza Anderson said in a written release.

Anderson said Parker, 24, an all-star point guard for professional basketball's San Antonio Spurs, flew to Los Angeles after a game on Wednesday and proposed to Longoria, 31, when she got home from work.

The couple will wed next year in Parker's native France and are planning a "big, happy ceremony with lots of family and friends," Anderson said.

The Texas-born Longoria, who met Parker in 2004 at a Spurs game, was previously married to soap opera star Tyler Christopher.