In "Love Actually", Colin Firth plays the character Jamie.
Jamie is a novelist whose romantic storyline begins with betrayal: he discovers that his girlfriend is having an affair with his younger brother. Heartbroken, he retreats to a cottage in France, where he meets Aurélia, his Portuguese housekeeper. Their attraction grows despite neither initially speaking the other’s language.
After returning to England, Jamie realizes he is in love with Aurélia and begins learning Portuguese. He eventually travels back to France to propose, delivering his feelings in halting Portuguese. Aurélia accepts in broken English, revealing that she has also been studying his language.
Jamie is sometimes confused with other men in the film’s interconnected ensemble. Harry is played by Alan Rickman, David by Hugh Grant, and Mark by Andrew Lincoln. Colin Firth’s Jamie is the writer in the French-cottage storyline, while the film’s title refers broadly to its many overlapping stories about love.