Neeson joins Love Actually cast

Liam Neeson is to star alongside Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in Richard Curtis's directorial debut Love Actually.

Laura Linney will also appear in the film which is billed as "10 new romantic comedies in one."

Curtis, who wrote Notting Hill and the Blackadder series, is to start shooting the movie in September, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Grant is cast as a British prime minister who falls in love with his Cockney cleaning lady, played by McCutcheon.

Neeson and Linney previously starred together in the Broadway production of the Crucible.