Peaky Blinders was a British phenomenon long before Netflix acquired the rights to broadcast the show around the world.
Starring Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby, the six-season series, which ran from 2013 to 2022, was famously set in Birmingham, England and took place following the events in World War I. The first season followed Tommy and his brothers — Arthur (Paul Anderson), John (Joe Cole) and Finn (Harry Kirton) — in 1919 as they grow the Shelby Company Limited, which was set up as a way to keep track of all legal business dealings done by the Peaky Blinders gang.
“There was slight hesitation because I’d never really played that physically imposing sort of hyper-masculine-type character,” Murphy told Entertainment Weekly in June 2022, when reflecting on his character. “In fact, I’d probably played the opposite up to that point. But I knew that it was such amazing material, and I knew that it was a gift of a role and I just needed to convince them that I could do it and I could work to become that physically imposing character.”
Murphy, obviously, wowed Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight because he nabbed the role and became Tommy F***ing Shelby to the world. The Oscar winner is set to reprise his role in Netflix’s Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man movie, due to premiere in March 2026. Keep scrolling to see what the cast of Peaky Blinders is doing now:
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