Love Actually icon unrecognisable 21 years since huge hit movie

Heike Makatsch, who famously played mistress Mia successful the 2003 deed festive movie Love Actually, is present starring successful Apple's archetypal German-language bid Where's Wanda? - and she looks wholly different

Heike Makatsch is hardly recognisable, 2 decades since starring successful Love Actually. The histrion is taking connected a caller relation successful Apple's debut German-language show. Known for her breakout relation successful 2003 arsenic Mia the tempting caput of Alan Rickman's quality successful Love Actually, she present finds herself plunging into the darkly humorous thriller bid Where's Wanda?

Having premiered connected Wednesday, October 2 connected Apple TV+, the bid spins the communicative of Dedo and Carlotta Klatt, a mates played by Axel Stein and Heike respectively, who are frantically searching for their missing girl Wanda, portrayed by Lea Drinda. The household decides to instrumentality the probe into their disappearance of their 17 twelvemonth aged into their ain hands erstwhile authorities travel up short. They embark connected an aggravated journey, looking heavy into their assemblage portion employing surveillance tech to show imaginable suspects crossed the ten-part series, reports OK!.

Time has seen Heike germinate from her relation successful Love Actually arsenic the "office tart" who infamously flirted with her brag Harry, starring to the heartbreak of his woman Karen, each whilst she sported acheronian hair. Now, stepping into the world of gritty drama, she presents a caller quality that leaves her Love Actually representation acold behind.

In the iconic film, the temptress rocked a short, choppy achromatic bob, but these days, astatine 53, she's unrecognisable with her flowing blonde locks, leaving galore to not adjacent link her with the Love Actually star. Heike played what immoderate mightiness telephone the astir loathed quality successful the 2003 classic, yet the movie ne'er explicitly confirms whether Harry, played by Alan Rickman, was unfaithful to his woman Karen with the alluring bureau vixen. Nonetheless, the storyline near viewers feeling some enraged and heartbroken.

Towards the film's climax, Karen, portrayed by Emma Thompson, discovers a necklace successful Harry's overgarment and mistakenly thinks it's a acquisition for her. The imaginable infidelity comes to airy when, alternatively of the jewellery, she unwraps a Joni Mitchell CD arsenic her present. Later, audiences spot Mia scantily dressed, smugly donning the necklace that Karen had earlier stumbled upon. Despite hopes that an existent matter hadn't occurred, publication exertion Emma Freud yet confirmed that it so did.

One unforgettable infinitesimal shows Mia, played by Makatsch, alongside Rickman's Harry astatine a festive enactment wherever she dons a revealing formal and devil horns, aiming to lure him in. After Henry gifts Mia a locket, she provocatively tells him: "I don't privation thing I need. I privation thing I privation thing pretty."

In summation to her relation arsenic Mia successful Love Actually, Heike has besides starred successful notable films specified arsenic Resident Evil (2002) and The Book Thief (2013). Following her iconic role, she continued her acting vocation successful assorted German films and TV shows.

She was famously successful a narration with James Bond histrion Daniel Craig for 7 years aft gathering connected the acceptable of the romanticist play Obsession. Post their divided successful 2004, Heike began dating Max Martin Schroder, a instrumentalist from a German indie band, with whom she has 2 children.