Mariska Hargitay and her frequent co-star Christopher Meloni sweetly held hands while seated next to each other courtside at Madison Square Garden in Midtown Manhattan last Friday.

The 61-year-old Emmy winner leaned in close while chatting with the 64-year-old Emmy nominee during the basketball game where the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the New York Knicks 108 to 102.

Mariska was joined by her 18-year-old son August Hermann while Christopher brought along his wife of 29 years, Sherman Williams.

At one point, Hargitay embraced Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson, writing on Instagram: ‘Always love the Garden on a Friday night @msgnetworks and watching the @nyknicks and #captain @jalenbrunson1. Didn’t mind the company either… @chris_meloni.’

Other celebrities attending Friday night’s NBA game included Tracy Morgan, Matthew Modine, Susie Essman, Michael J. Fox, and his wife Tracy Pollan.

When Meloni and Williams welcomed their 24-year-old daughter Sophia via surrogate, they appointed the Taylor Swift muse as her godmother making them family – according to People.

Mariska Hargitay and her frequent co-star Christopher Meloni sweetly held hands while seated next to each other courtside at Madison Square Garden in Midtown Manhattan last Friday

Mariska is also mother to 14-year-old daughter Amaya and 13-year-old son Andrew from her 20-year marriage to Blue Bloods alum Peter Hermann, whom she met in 2001 while working together on the set of her NBC police procedural.

Hargitay – who plays NYPD Captain Olivia Benson – will guest star in the fifth season of the IF actor’s spin-off Law & Order: Organized Crime, which premieres this Thursday on Peacock.

And Christopher will likely guest star in the 22-episode 26th season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which airs Thursdays on NBC.

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Meloni – who plays NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler – abruptly left SVU in 2011 due to a contract dispute, but returned as ‘recurring’ in 2020 before scoring his own spin-off in 2021.

‘I knew quickly that we had this kind of magical chemistry,’ the Groundlings alum recalled to TODAY on January 9 of their first meeting in 1999.

‘Chris and I are polar opposites in terms of who we are as people. And yet, there was this yin-yang. So when they paired us [during the audition], I was like, “Oh, this is done.”‘

Mariska also produced and directed a documentary about her late mother Jayne Mansfield called My Mom Jayne, which premieres this June on HBO.

‘I feel grateful, fulfilled, and so proud to share this film,’ Hargitay – who previously helmed nine SVU episodes – said in a statement.

‘I never got to make a movie with my mom, and she never got to make the kind of movies she wanted to make. My Mom Jayne is a place of meeting for us, and words fail me to describe how meaningful it is to tell her story, my own, and ours together.’

The 61-year-old Emmy winner leaned in close while chatting with the 64-year-old Emmy nominee during the basketball game where the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the New York Knicks 108 to 102

Mariska was joined by her 18-year-old son August Hermann (L) while Christopher brought along his wife of 29 years, Sherman Williams (R)

At one point, Hargitay embraced Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson (L), writing on Instagram: ‘Always love the Garden on a Friday night @msgnetworks and watching the @nyknicks and #captain @jalenbrunson1. Didn’t mind the company either… @chris_meloni’ 

The Taylor Swift muse is also mother to 14-year-old daughter Amaya and 13-year-old son Andrew from her 20-year marriage to Blue Bloods alum Peter Hermann (L, pictured December 8)

Mariska – who plays NYPD Captain Olivia Benson – will guest star in the fifth season of Williams’ spin-off Law & Order: Organized Crime, which premieres this Thursday on Peacock

And Christopher will likely guest star in the 22-episode 26th season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which airs Thursdays on NBC (pictured on set March 19)

Hargitay recalled to TODAY on January 9 of their first meeting in 1999: ‘I knew quickly that we had this kind of magical chemistry. Chris and I are polar opposites in terms of who we are as people. And yet, there was this yin-yang. So when they paired us [during the audition], I was like, “Oh, this is done”‘

Miss Beverly Hills 1982 also produced and directed a documentary about her late mother Jayne Mansfield called My Mom Jayne, which premieres this June on HBO

Miss Beverly Hills 1982 continued: ‘This movie is a labor of love and longing. It’s a search for the mother I never knew, an integration of a part of myself I’d never owned, and a reclaiming of my mother’s story and my own truth.

‘I’ve always believed there is strength in vulnerability, and the process of making this film has confirmed that belief like never before.’

Mariska was only three years old when the blonde bombshell was tragically killed, age 34, in a gruesome 1967 car accident as she and her brothers Mickey and Zoltan slept in the backseat of a Buick Electra.