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Peaky Blinders

Peaky Blinders

BBC Two 2013

A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
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The Top 10 Actors and Characters of Peaky Blinders (Ranked Cast in 2024)

Iddo Goldberg

#1 - Iddo Goldberg (Bennett Knox)

Iddo Goldberg (born 5 August 1975) is an English-Israeli actor. Goldberg was born in Haifa, Israel. He has had several notable roles, including playing Ben on the television show Secret Diary Of A Call Girl. He is engaged to Bedlam actress, and fashionista Ashley Madekwe, whom also starred in Secret Diary Of A Call Girl alongside Iddo. He appeared in the 2008 war film Defiance, starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber. Description above from the Wikipedia article Iddo Goldberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Iddo Goldberg plays as Bennett Knox in Peaky Blinders.
Iddo Goldberg is the top #1 member of the cast and appears in 30 episodes.

Cillian Murphy

#2 - Cillian Murphy (Tommy Shelby)

Cillian Murphy is an Irish film and theatre actor. He is often noted by critics for his chameleonic performances in diverse roles and distinctive blue eyes. A native of Cork, Murphy began his performing career as a rock musician. After turning down a record deal, he made his professional acting debut in the play Disco Pigs in 1996. He went on to star in Irish and UK film and stage productions throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, first coming to international attention in 2003 as the hero in the post-apocalyptic film 28 Days Later. Murphy is best known for his work with director Christopher Nolan, where he appeared as the villain Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow in all three films in the Dark Knight trilogy. Murphy has also worked with Nolan on Inception and Dunkirk. In 2013, Murphy started working on a TV show for BBC titled “Peaky Blinders” as the show’s lead role, Thomas Shelby. The show is still airing as of 2020 with five highly critically acclaimed seasons under its belt A resident of London since 2001, Murphy often works in or near the city and has expressed no desire to move to Hollywood. Uncomfortable on the celebrity circuit, he customarily gives interviews about his work, but does not appear on television talk shows or discuss details of his private life with the press. Born in Douglas and raised in Ballintemple, two suburbs of Cork, Cillian Murphy is the eldest of four children. His father, Brendan, works for the Irish Department of Education and his mother is a French teacher. Not only are his parents educators, but his aunts and uncles are also teachers, as was his grandfather. Musicianship also runs in the family, and Murphy started playing music and writing songs at age ten. In mid-2004, Murphy married his long-time live-in girlfriend, Yvonne McGuinness, an artist whom he met in 1996 at one of his rock band's shows. The couple live in northwest London with their two sons Malachy (born in 2005) and Aaron (born in 2007). Murphy is known for being reluctant to speak about his personal life. He frequently gives interviews about his work but did not appear on a single live TV chat show, where actors customarily share information about their private lives, until 2010, when he was a guest on The Late Late Show on Ireland's RTÉ to promote Perrier's Bounty. He does not have a stylist or a personal publicist, travels without an entourage, and often attends premieres alone. Shy and private, Murphy professes a lack of interest in the celebrity scene, finding the red carpet experience "a challenge... and not one I want to overcome." He intentionally practices a lifestyle that will not interest the tabloids: "I haven't created any controversy, I don't sleep around, I don't go and fall down drunk." Murphy is friends with fellow Irish actors Colin Farrell and Liam Neeson, looking up to the latter like a "surrogate movie dad". But primarily, Murphy's close friendships are those he made before becoming a star.

Cillian Murphy plays as Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders.
Cillian Murphy is the top #2 member of the cast and appears in 30 episodes.

Paul Anderson

#3 - Paul Anderson (Arthur Shelby)

Paul Anderson is an English actor who started his acting career in the late 2000s. He was previously a ticket scalper who decided to attend Webber Douglas drama school, subsequently landing roles in theatre and in films such as The Firm, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and Passion. Anderson is known for his breakout role as Arthur Shelby in British television series Peaky Blinders.

Paul Anderson plays as Arthur Shelby in Peaky Blinders.
Paul Anderson is the top #3 member of the cast and appears in 30 episodes.

Finn Cole

#4 - Finn Cole (Michael Gray)

Finn Cole is an English actor.

Finn Cole plays as Michael Gray in Peaky Blinders.
Finn Cole is the top #4 member of the cast and appears in 24 episodes.

Annabelle Wallis

#5 - Annabelle Wallis (Grace Burgess)

Annabelle Frances Wallis (born 5 September 1984) is an English actress best known for her roles as Jane Seymour in Showtime's period drama The Tudors, Bridget Pierce in ABC's drama Pan Am, Mia Form in the 2014 supernatural horror film Annabelle, Grace Burgess in the BBC drama Peaky Blinders, and Jenny Halsey in the 2017 action film The Mummy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Annabelle Wallis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Annabelle Wallis plays as Grace Burgess in Peaky Blinders.
Annabelle Wallis is the top #5 member of the cast and appears in 12 episodes.

Charlie Murphy

#6 - Charlie Murphy (Ann Gallagher)

Charlotte "Charlie" Murphy (born 19 April 1988) is an Irish actress. She is best known for playing the lead role of Siobhan Delaney in the hit RTÉ drama Love/Hate for which she won the 2013 Irish Film and Television Award for Best TV Actress, and as Ann Gallagher in the acclaimed BBC One drama Happy Valley. She is currently appearing in the BBC One historical crime drama television series Peaky Blinders.

Charlie Murphy plays as Ann Gallagher in Peaky Blinders.
Charlie Murphy is the top #6 member of the cast and appears in 12 episodes.

Sam Neill

#7 - Sam Neill (Brett Colby)

Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand actor. He is perhaps best known for his starring role as paleontologist Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III. He has also had a number of high-profile roles including: the lead in Reilly, Ace of Spies, the adult Damien in Omen III: The Final Conflict, Merlin in the miniseries Merlin, Captain Vasily Borodin in The Hunt for Red October, Lord Friedrich Hoffman in Snow White: A Tale of Terror, and Alisdair Stewart in The Piano. Most recently he played Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in the Peace Arch Entertainment production for Showtime, The Tudors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Neill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Sam Neill plays as Brett Colby in Peaky Blinders.
Sam Neill is the top #7 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Adrien Brody

#8 - Adrien Brody (Pat Riley)

Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor and producer. He received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring as Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29, becoming the youngest actor to win in that category. Brody is the second male American actor after Christopher Lambert to receive the César Award for Best Actor. Other successful films that Brody has starred in are The Thin Red Line (1998), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Predators (2010) and Midnight in Paris (2011). He is a frequent collaborator of Wes Anderson's, having starred in four of Anderson's films, The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and The French Dispatch (2021). In 2017, he portrayed Luca Changretta in the fourth season of the BBC series Peaky Blinders. He will star in the upcoming Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde (2022). In 2022, he also starred as Pat Riley in the first season of the HBO sports drama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.

Adrien Brody plays as Pat Riley in Peaky Blinders.
Adrien Brody is the top #8 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Aidan Gillen

#9 - Aidan Gillen (Milo Sunter)

Aidan Gillen (born Aidan Murphy on 24 April 1968) is an Irish stage and screen actor, best known in the UK for his role as Stuart Jones in the ground-breaking Channel 4 television series Queer as Folk. He is perhaps best known to US audiences for his role in HBO's television series The Wire in which he plays Tommy Carcetti and for his role as Petyr Baelish in the HBO series Game of Thrones. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aidan Gillen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Aidan Gillen plays as Milo Sunter in Peaky Blinders.
Aidan Gillen is the top #9 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Helen McCrory

#10 - Helen McCrory (Kathryn)

Helen McCrory (August 17, 1968 - April 16, 2021) was an English actress. She portrayed Cherie Blair in both the 2006 film The Queen and the 2010 film The Special Relationship. She also portrayed Narcissa Malfoy in the final three installments of the Harry Potter movies. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen McCrory, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Helen McCrory plays as Kathryn in Peaky Blinders.
Helen McCrory is the top #10 member of the cast and appears in 8 episodes.

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