--- title: Love Actually Sequel: Sarah Gets a Happy Ending description: The ten-minute sequel Red Nose Day Actually aired for American audiences on Thursday, and it tied up several loose ends, including Sarah's plot. canonical: https://time.com/4795734/love-actually-sequel-sarah/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-26T15:32:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:58.798Z og:title: The Love Actually Sequel Gave Sarah a Blissfully Happy Ending og:description: One of the most sympathetic is living her best life in the 2017 sequel og:url: https://time.com/4795734/love-actually-sequel-sarah/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cf26e5bdf53a7c9/6988cf1e8e0601b2f846a8b9/gettyimages-688326538.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Laura Linney Lights The Empire State Building In Honor Of Red Nose Day og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Love Actually Sequel Gave Sarah a Blissfully Happy Ending twitter:description: One of the most sympathetic is living her best life in the 2017 sequel twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cf26e5bdf53a7c9/6988cf1e8e0601b2f846a8b9/gettyimages-688326538.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Laura Linney Finally Get Her Happy Ending in the _Love Actually_ Sequel by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 26, 2017 3:32 PM UTC  NEW YORK, NY - MAY 25: Actress Laura Linney speaks at the lighting of The Empire State Building in honor of Red Nose Day at The Empire State Building on May 25, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Monica Schipper/WireImage) NEW YORK, NY - MAY 25: Actress Laura Linney speaks at the lighting of The Empire State Building in honor of Red Nose Day at The Empire State Building on May 25, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Monica Schipper/WireImage)Monica Schipper—WireImage by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 26, 2017 3:32 PM UTC The mini sequel to [_Love Actually_](http://time.com/4703395/love-actually-reunion-sequel/) gave one of the most sympathetic characters a blessedly happy ending — with a nostalgic twist. In March, [_Red Nose Day Actually_](http://www.rednoseday.com/fundraise/red-nose-day-actually) aired in the U.K, and tied up several loose ends. But fans didn’t find out what happened to Laura Linney’s Sarah until Thursday night, when the full cast reunion aired on NBC. In Richard Curtis’ 2003 holiday rom-com, the selfless Sarah devotes herself tirelessly to two things. One is her job and the other is her role as caretaker for her brother Michael (Michael Fitzgerald), who suffers from a mental illness. Sarah has dreams. She yearns to be with her dreamboat colleague, designer Karl (Rodrigo Santoro), and she finally gets her chance to be with him. But her phone rings as it does incessantly throughout the movie because her brother needs her, and the dutiful sister makes a quick exit to soothe him. She and Karl never try again. In 2015, the film’s script editor dropped some more bleak news about Sarah’s relationships prospects. > [](https://twitter.com/emmafreud/status/676056137364578304) But that was then and this is 14 years later, and Sarah’s phone is still blowing up. “Hello darling,” she answers, and the audience assumes it’s her brother. Except it’s her doting husband, played by universally recognized heartthrob Patrick Dempsey. This guy just can’t stop calling his “very nice wife,” and they’re quite cute together. Online, fans are rejoicing about it. > [](https://twitter.com/AwesomeAMT/status/867932659514736641) > [](https://twitter.com/nadinettan/status/867957348693716993) > [](https://twitter.com/nadinettan/status/867943809472180224) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4795734/love-actually-sequel-sarah/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4795734/love-actually-sequel-sarah/"},"headline":"Watch Laura Linney Finally Get Her Happy Ending in the Love Actually Sequel","datePublished":"2017-05-26T15:32:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:58.798Z","description":"The ten-minute sequel Red Nose Day Actually aired for American audiences on Thursday, and it tied up several loose ends, including Sarah's plot.","url":"https://time.com/4795734/love-actually-sequel-sarah/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cf26e5bdf53a7c9/6988cf1e8e0601b2f846a8b9/gettyimages-688326538.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cf26e5bdf53a7c9/6988cf1e8e0601b2f846a8b9/gettyimages-688326538.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Laura Linney Lights The Empire State Building In Honor Of Red Nose Day","caption":"Laura Linney Lights The Empire State Building In Honor Of Red Nose Day","creditText":"Monica Schipper—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4795734/love-actually-sequel-sarah/","name":"Watch Laura Linney Finally Get Her Happy Ending in the Love Actually Sequel"}}]}] ```