She may be best known for playing the rom-com villain, but she s done a lot since.
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11 12 2020
Few characters in romantic comedies are as loathed as Mia. She has little more than a few minutes of screen time in seminal Christmas weepy Love Actually, but boy does she make an impression. After flirting with her boss, Harry, played by Alan Rickman, the pair embark on an off-screen dalliance that leads him to devastate his loyal wife. Few scenes are more certain to make you blub than the one in which Emma Thompson weeps to the refrains of Joni Mitchell s Both Sides Now. But it s not Joni s fault Emma Thompson is sad. It s Harry s. And Mia s.