Love Really star Mia seems to be fully totally different and had fascinating 20 yr profession after film

Since her devilish position as Mia in Love Really, Heike Makatsch has gone on to construct a diverse profession in movie and TV and as you’d anticipate, seems to be fully totally different after 22 years.

The German actor, 54, performs a trendy and flirtatious worker at a London design company alongside Harry, performed by the late Alan Rickman.

Regardless of loyalties to his spouse Karen (Emma Thompson), Mia pursues Harry by delicate gestures and crossing skilled boundaries.

All through the movie, Harry does not reject Mia and, as a substitute, permits for the affair to unfold.

The turning level comes when it seems that Harry buys an costly gold necklace for Karen, who later learns that it was a Christmas present for an additional girl – Mia.

Whereas we by no means see the precise affair happen, Love Really followers know precisely what is going on.

After receiving a Joni Mitchell CD, Karen finally confronts her husband who admits what he’d been doing.

Surprisingly, the couple keep collectively regardless of their marriage not showing to be a contented one.

“Exterior of Germany, folks solely know me by Love Really or at the very least primarily by that movie,” Makatsch told the Metro final yr.

“That’s the place folks see me because the secretary who destroys a wedding, and many ladies really feel a form of anger in direction of me due to that.

“It’s fast that you just’re typecast and I hope that now internationally Carlotta will assist me so that folks can see I’m not simply the marriage-destroying evil Mia.”

Since enjoying the just about home-wrecker (since they stayed collectively), Makatsch has appeared in a succession of massive motion pictures, together with sci-fi/horror franchise Resident Evil in 2002, portraying Dr Lisa Addison, a scientist caught up within the zombie outbreak.

She additionally delivered a putting efficiency as Liesel’s mom within the adaptation of the bestselling novel The E book Thief in 2013, enjoying the position of a mom in war-time Germany. That very same yr, she was in Again on Observe, a German tragicomedy.

In recent times, she starred as Carlotta Klatt in The place’s Wanda? in 2024, an Apple TV+ crime-comedy sequence about determined mother and father investigating their daughter’s disappearance.

In 2025, she can be credited within the German adaptation Name My Agent Berlin (2025).

Away from performing, Makatsch was in a seven yr relationship with James Bond star Daniel Craig, which resulted in 2004.

She has been in a relationship with actor Trystan Pütter since round 2017, and had her third little one with him. Her first two kids had been with musician Max Martin Schröder.