Love Actually cast: Then and now - 9Honey Celebrity

It's arguably the most iconic rom-com of all time, and even though other films have had a solid 19 years to dethrone it, Love Actually has reigned supreme.

Actress Meg Wynn Owen's role was relatively minor in the film – she was one of the Prime Minister's staffers at 10 Downing Street – but it was no less impactful.

After a decades-long career in film and television, Owen died in June 2022.

Costume designer Brian Malam, 60, had been put in charge of her finances as power of attorney in 2014 as her health declined – and it was recently revealed that Malam, who had been Owen's friend, had pleaded guilty to fraud while occupying a position of trust and sentenced to 32 months by a judge at Cardiff Crown Court.

Hugh Grant had, by the time Love Actually was released, already worked up quite the résumé – he was already known for Bridget Jones's Diary, Sense and Sensibility and Notting Hill.

Grant, now 62, married in 2018 for the first time, and is now a husband to Swedish television producer Anna Elisabet Eberstein.

Martine McCutcheon's most well-known role, aside from her three-year stint as Tiffany Mitchell on EastEnders, is that of Natalie, the Prime Minister's love interest, in the 2003 Christmas film.

In 2017, McCutcheon recreated her special scene from Love Actually – where she jumps into the Prime Minister's arms at the arrivals gate – with complete strangers at London's Heathrow Airport.

Thornton's award-winning career started 17 years before his Love Actually role, and it continued after.

Keira Knightley was only 17 when she starred as newlywed Juliet, and the same year Love Actually was released, she debuted as Elizabeth Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean.

Knightley is a prolific actress, having starred in either a television series, film or short every year since her role in Star Wars: Episode I in 1999.

In the years following Love Actually, Ejiofor scored a series of small roles in huge projects like Inside Man and Children of Men, and he also nabbed big roles in independent flicks like Dirty Pretty Things and Kinky Boots.

Andrew Lincoln's role as a would-be affair partner, despite being the character behind arguably one of the most iconic scenes in the film and the history of rom-coms, is actually not the role he's best known for.