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Love Actually. Image shows from L to R: David, The Prime Minister (Hugh Grant), Natalie (Martine McCutcheon). Copyright: Working Title Films
Love Actually

Love Actually

  • 2003 film

Romantic comedy by Richard Curtis, charting a multitude of relationships across a Christmas period. Also features Alan Rickman, Olivia Olson, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson and more.

  • JustWatch Streaming rank this week: 35

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Joanna Page on Love Actually

"It's a flipping film - sometimes we take things too seriously."

Francesca Steele, i Newspaper, 23rd December 2022

Being in Love Actually made me feel like outcast

She dazzled as the all-American schoolgirl who stole a young boy's heart in hit romantic comedy Love Actually, but actress Olivia Olson says that in real life she felt like an outcast and feared having a breakdown as the pressure of being a child star became too much.

Graeme Culliford, The Sun, 23rd December 2022

Love Actually director Richard Curtis uncomfortable with movie's lack of diversity

Love Actually director Richard Curtis has said he feels "a bit stupid" about parts of his 2003 Christmas rom-com, including its lack of diversity.

Paul Glynn, BBC, 30th November 2022

Jenny Eclair: I'm in uncharacteristic floods of tears over Love Actually

What sort of joyless person could possibly sneer at romcoms? Well, me - until 10 days ago.

Jenny Eclair, The Independent, 29th December 2021

What happened to Love Actually cast?

With a love triangle, an affair and doomed romances - who could have predicted Love Actually would become such an iconic Christmas film? Here, we look at the fates of those behind one of Britain's all-time favourite Christmas flicks.

Josh Saunders & Oscar Butler, The Sun, 26th November 2021

Olivia Olson reveals on-screen kiss was her FIRST ever

The little girl from Love Actually, who stunned viewers with her incredible singing voice, has revealed that the Christmas movie was her FIRST kiss.

LA-based Olivia Olson, now 28, was just 10 years old when she bagged the part of Joanna Anderson, and has lifted the lid on secrets behind the 2003 Christmas classic.

Becky Pemberton, The Sun, 25th December 2020

Our love-hate relationship with Xmas movie schmaltz

Cheesy, sentimental and ridiculous: festive films' creators and stars including Joanna Page and Kristin Davis explain their enduring appeal.

Jessica Barrett, i Newspaper, 13th November 2019

Four times Richard Curtis sanitised Britain

The Love Actually director is worried that Netflix is presenting a distorted vision of the UK. He knows a thing or two about that, as these examples show.

Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 14th October 2019

Rodrigo Santoro was almost in Love Actually reunion

Westworld's Rodrigo Santoro has revealed that he was asked to reprise his role as Karl alongside Laura Linney - and he says he doesn't agree with criticism of his character.

Radio Times, 21st April 2018

Love Actually stars' huge secret exposed

Love Actually may have been released almost 15 years ago, but this lesser-known fact about Keira Knightley and her co-star Thomas Brodie-Sangster has stunned fans.

Jess Sheldon, The Daily Express, 13th February 2018

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