The 'Love Actually' Cast Has Been *Very* Busy Since 2003 (2024)

Emma Thompson, 63, is perhaps best known as Professor Trelawney in the Harry Potter movies, but she's also had quite the career outside of the wizarding world, per IMDb. She plays the Alan Rickman's wife in the beloved 2003 Christmas film, but IRL, is married to Greg Wise and has two children, per People.

In addition to being in Love Actually, she also starred as the titular character in Nanny McPhee, Beauty and the Beast in 2017, Brave, Dolittle, Men in Black, and more.

Love Actually was the biggest movie of Chiwetel Ejiofor’s career in 2003, and afterward, he went on to book a number of huge films. I’m talking about 12 Years a Slave, Doctor Strange, 2019’s The Lion King, and 2012, IMDb reports.

Today, he’s 45 and has won a number of awards over the course of his career, including a 2014 BAFTA for 12 Years a Slave.

Talk about a versatile actress. Laura Linney, 58, has acting credits on a variety of films and television shows, from Ozark, to The Truman Show, to The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and The Nanny Diaries, per IMDb.

She’s married to Marc Schauer and they have a child.

Colin Firth is arguably one of the most successful actors to come out of the Love Actually universe. (It’s me, I’m the one arguing.) I mean, Mamma Mia!, the Kingsman movies, The Staircase, Nanny McPhee, and What a Girl Wants? What can’t this man do? Of course, he was already killing it before, being the OG Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice in 1995 and also starring in Bridget Jones’s Diary, IMDB says.

Today, the English actor is 62 and has three kids, Yahoo! reports.

While she has a quick cameo in Love Actually, this award-winning actress has a long list of credits in movies and television shows. Here’s just a few of them: Mad Men, Anger Management, The Politician, Spinning Out, and some X-Men movies, IMDb says.

The 44-year-old has one son.

Before playing Mia in Love Actually, this German actress was in films such as Resident Evil and Obsession. Since this movie, Heike, now 51, has been in The Book Thief, I’ve Never Been to New York, and other films, per IMDb.

Trystan Pütter is her new partner, and she has three daughters with her ex.

Hugh Grant’s movie career was already pretty established once he starred in Love Actually (read: Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary, and Four Weddings and a Funeral). And since then, the 62-year-old has accomplished even more, like acting in The Gentlemen and The Undoing in 2019 and 2020, respectively, per IMDb. His most recent film to come out? Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. And he’s got even more in the works in the upcoming years.

He got married in 2018 to Anna Eberstein and has five children, per Hello! Magazine.

Alan Rickman had an incredible career, not only starring in Love Actually, but also in the Harry Potter films as Severus Snape, as well as Die Hard, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Alice in Wonderland in 2010, IMDb says.

Alan sadly passed away in 2016 at the age of 69 from cancer, per The Guardian.

Keira Knightley knew her way around the acting world by the time she got to the set of Love Actually. After all, she’d already starred in the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and Bend It Like Beckham, per IMDb. Still, her career continued to blow up after starring in the 2003 Christmas film as Juliet. Keira went on on to star in Pride and Prejudice, The Imitation Game, and more Pirates movies.

Now 37, she has two children with musician James Righton, whom she married in 2013, per the outlet.

Joanna Page, 45, has been in a lot, acting-wise—but Love Actually might be her best-known film. Other than that, she's ben in Gavin & Stacey, Dream Horse, The Pet Show, and Gates since, per IMDb.

She’s been married to James Thornton since 2003 and has four children.

Billy Bob Thorton’s movie and television experience is pretty vast. Before he was in Love Actually, he was in Monster’s Ball, A Simple Plan, and Armageddon, per IMDb. Afterward, he was in Friday Night Lights, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Puss in Boots, and The Gray Man.

Now 67, he has four children and is married to Connie Angland.

This Brazilian actor has a vast acting resume. Today, Rodrigo Santoro has been in a wide variety of movies and television shows, such as Westworld, Boundless, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Focus, and Ben-Hur, IMDb says. He also has a new television series called Wolf Pack that will be out in 2023.

The 47-year old married Mel Fronckowiak in 2016 and they share a daughter.

Martine McCutcheon, 46, has done some acting since her days playing Hugh’s love interest in the film, like starring in Jump!, as well as Elf: The Christmas Spectacular, which was a musical based on the 2003 film Christmas film, per IMDb.

She got married in 2012 to Jack McManus and they share one son together.