Love Actually
Date: 2003
Director: Richard Curtis
Production Company: Universal Pictures, Studio Canal, Working Title Films
Stars: Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Laura Linney, Keira Knightley, Martine McCutcheon, Bill Nighy, Gregor Fisher, Kris Marshall, Heike Makatsch, Andrew Lincoln, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Martin Freeman, Joanna Page, Thomas Sangster, Lucia Monez, Meg Wynn Owen, Rowan Atkinson, Billy Bob Thornton
Location(s): London, Surrey, Marseille
Region(s): France, London H-L, South East E-L
Storyline:
Love is actually all around as this all-star cast proves to various degrees. SJ
Additional Information:
“The wedding reception scene was filmed at the boating base, 136 Grosvenor Rd, London SW1V 3JY. I was in it” Matthew Douglas. Yet to be grabbed …
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- Capture 1
- 19 Apr 2021
An establishing shot of Rickman and Thompson's place. After weeks of searching, Annie Green found Albert Square in Stockwell SW8 with properties on Aldebert Terrace to the left.

Shot, looking west, in the morning in contrast to the original's afternoon. 15 & 16 Albert Square. Roger Moore spent his early years both in Aldebert Terrace and Albert Square. SJ
- Capture 2
- 06 Jul 2015
Rickman and Makatsch's workplace where Marshall delivers sandwiches. Clerkenwell? That sign seems to say "Dowe Place."
Robin Holland identifies this as E M A House at 62-72 Tabernacle Street EC2 with "Dowe Place" actually Clere Street. Peter provides this image noting that the small sign above Clere Street reads formally Paradise Street.
- Capture 3
- 'Now' required
Studio where Freeman and Page are stand-ins for characters in a porn film. Is it a real studio: quite individual architecture outside.
- Capture 4
- 20 Jun 2018
Grant arrives at no 10 Downing Street, apparently a studio set.

The real McCoy taken by Glenn Horridge: the main differences are the the tree and no wall in front of the brown-bricked building. (SJ)
- Capture 5
- 24 Mar 2013
Knightley's wedding in The Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, London W1.
The spectacular gallery and organ of the chapel. SJ
- Capture 6
- 07 Mar 2015
Firth arrives home at 2a, The Studio, Blenheim Road, Turnham Green, London W4. Thanks to Tony Reeves for this one.
Very close to Nuns on the Run. SJ
- Capture 7
- 'Now' required
Neeson reads an eulogy for his dead wife. St Paul's Church, Rectory Grove, SW4, with thanks to Tony Reeves.
- Capture 8
- 23 Feb 2015
Marshall drives away. Golborne Road looking south, London W10.
Unchanged. SJ
- Capture 9
- 28 Feb 2013
Neeson and Sangster share thoughts on the South Bank, SE1.
That's the bench. SJ
- Capture 10
- 'Now' required
Closer shot. Gabriel's Wharf.
- Capture 11
- 'Now' required
Firth's "Portuguese" retreat for writing. Actually to the west of Frejus in Vidauban, Var, South of France. Robin Holland advises that this burnt down and no longer exists. (RL)
- Capture 12
- 11 Apr 2013
Lincoln storms out of his pad after giving away his infatuation of and to Knightley. Barge House Street, SE1. Now big in the states in Fox's The Walking Dead.
The same place today by David Ahern.
- Capture 13
- 11 Apr 2013
Turning left and heading for the River Thames, SE1.
A bit bleaker now but with a population of bikes appearing! Picture by David Ahern.
- Capture 14
- 11 Apr 2013
The Oxo Tower Wharf, SE1, just east of Gabriel's Wharf (qv.)
David Ahern found the same spot now.
- Capture 15
- 'Now' required
Firth and Moniz at a "Portuguese airport." Marseille, France.
- Capture 16
- 'Now' required
And off she goes.
- Capture 17
- 'Now' required
Firth looks wistful.
- Capture 18
- 18 Apr 2013
Thompson greets Rickman (off camera) outside Carluccio's. There is one near Selfridge's, the next scene, in St Christopher's Place, W1.
Steps altered a little. SJ
- Capture 19
- 18 Apr 2013
Selfridge's, 400 Oxford Street, W1
Now. SJ
- Capture 20
- 23 Feb 2015
Marshall at 54 Golborne Road, London W10.
Driving cold rain and white vans! It's not all glamorous, this location work, you know. SJ
- Capture 21
- 11 Apr 2013
Firth descending into Canary Wharf underground, E14.
Going underground by David Ahern.
- Capture 22
- 09 Jun 2023
"Milwaukee Airport" actually Sandown Park Racecourse from the car park, Esher, Surrey. Thanks to Tony Reeves for this.

John Harwood captured the "airport" racecourse and wondered who thought this one up. I expect the budget did! (SJ)
- Capture 23
- 19 Feb 2021
Freeman and Page at an unidentified location for nearly 10 years but it has been found by the resilience of Annie Green who names Gaywood Street, London SE1.

21 Gaywood Street minus Christmas decorations. SJ
- Capture 24
- 06 Aug 2020
Firth thinks about Christmas in London, before deciding he wants Portugal. The address is 1 Rupert Street even though this is on the north side of Bath Road, W4.

Robin Holland, wondering whether the new fence and greenery was paid for out of the location fee, provided a google shot in July 2015, now replaced by SJ
- Capture 25
- 06 Aug 2020
Looking keen (at first) and greeted by Linney. Grab taken for those arched windows in the house opposite... identified by Robin Holland as the Arts Educational School, 14 Bath Road, W4.

Oh dear: under hoarding but preferable to the Google shot which this replaces. SJ
- Capture 26
- 13 Aug 2013
Lincoln in St Luke's Mews, London W11, after saying Happy Christmas to Knightley.
A much loved cinematic mews. See London Movie Guide for others. SJ
- Capture 27
- 04 Jun 2020
Poplar Road, SE24. I watched the filming of this on two occasions in separate months: Grant is in the car in front of the police car.

David Buckley's photo from June 2008. (SJ)
- Capture 28
- 21 Feb 2013
102 and 100 Poplar Road, SE24, McCutcheon and Maktsch's doors respectively.
Taken soon after the release. Same doors, same brickwork scarrings. SJ
- Capture 29
- 06 Aug 2020
McCutcheon and Grant arrive at Elliott School, Pullman Gardens, SW15

The Elliott School became the Ark Putney Academy in 2012. Looks like an added building right to the left. This is the gate further south on Pullman Gardens looking east. SJ
- Capture 30
- 'Now' required
Firth in search of Moniz in Marseille. The city is also seen in 'Seven Thunders' and 'House of Secrets'... Flushed with the success of the cap23 identification Annie finds 9 Montee des Accoules. (SJ)
- Capture 31
- 'Now' required
... And finds her in Le Bar de la Marine, 15 Quai de Rive Neuve, the Old Port in Marseille. Thanks once again to Tony Reeves for this.

