Cillian Murphy
Thomas Shelby
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- 1. S1 E1 Sep 12, 2013
- Thomas Shelby plans to fix a horse race; some guns turn up stolen.
- 2. S1 E2 Sep 19, 2013
- Thomas Shelby starts a feud with a gypsy family and meets with the Inspector to talk about guns.
- 3. S1 E3 Sep 26, 2013
- IRA sympathizers tries to get information from Thomas about the stolen guns.
Alfie Solomons is a fictional Jewish gangster and bootlegger in the TV series Peaky Blinders, played by Tom Hardy. He appears in five seasons, from 2014 to 2022, and has a complex relationship with the Shelby family.
Learn about Tom Hardy, the English actor who plays Alfie Solomons, a mob boss for a Jewish gang, in Peaky Blinders. Find out his date of birth, role, filmography and image gallery.
Peaky Blinders: Created by Steven Knight. With Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle, Helen McCrory. A gangster family epic set in 1900s England, centering on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby.
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Violent and unpredictable, but intelligent and calculating, he is a master negotiator who used violent outbursts and confusing language to intimidate and dominate everyone around him. Although he appears to take a genuine liking to Tommy over time and is certainly willing to do business with him, it does not mean he won't do business with Tommy's rivals on the sly; he has betrayed Tommy at least twice, and assisted in an attempt on his life (although his motivations in the latter scenario wer...
Series 2 · 1922
Alfie, seeing a good opportunity for business and leverage, stopped working with Thomas and started working with Darby Sabini, who promised him that Alfie's bookies would be allowed to go to the Epsom Races. During that time, Alfie informed Arthur Shelby and Billy Kitchenof their new relationship by killing a goat named after Thomas. However, after Sabini broke his promise, Alfie returned to work with Thomas. He initially tried to bully Tommy (who was in a precarious position) into signing ov...
Series 3 · 1924
Alfie doesn't appear in Series 3 until the middle of the series, he is however mentioned by Polly when she tells Arthur and John that Alfie and Sabinihave already sent flowers after Grace's death. She comments to Thomas that they will begin to aggressively take apart their operation unless he comes back from grief. Solomons is summoned to Small Heath to be a part of Thomas' plan with the Russians after Thomas had been severely injured by Father Hughes' men. Alfie tells Thomas that his maid ha...
The two have a very strange relationship given that Solomons has crossed Thomas three times and yet the latter continues to trust him. When the two meet, there is a witty exchange of intelligent and threatening words, each trying to intimidate the opponent. They both seem to build up some form of mutual respect, seeing the other as equal. After Alfie's resurrection in Series 5, they're seen bantering like old friends. Tommy seems to be at ease at Alfie's house, and he doesn't hide his smirks...
Little is known about either of the two London gang leaders. What is known is that Sabini and Solomons have known one another since school, as when the Italians and Jews call a truce, Sabini remarks that he and Alfie have been fighting since they were in school. The two have a strained relationship, in that sometimes they are friends when it best suits business and other times they are enemies. Sabini, as of Series 2, is winning the war in London, hence why Alfie sends the telegram to Thomas...
"You're gypsies, right? So what do you live in, a fucking tent or caravan?" "I once carried out my own personal form of stigmata on an Italian. I pushed his face up against a trench and shoved a six-inch nail up his fucking nose and I hammered it home with a duckboard. It was fucking biblical, mate. So don't come in here, and sit in my chair, and t...
In Episode 2.2, Alfie talks about how he killed an Italian during the war. However, the Italians fought on the same side as the British, who Alfie presumably fought for, in World War I.
Peaky Blinders is a crime drama centred on a family of mixed Irish Traveller and Romani origins based in Birmingham, England, starting in 1919, several months after the end of the First World War. It centres on the Peaky Blinders street gang and their ambitious, cunning crime boss Tommy Shelby.
Aug 2, 2022 · How did Tom Hardy create his unforgettable role as Alfie Solomons in Peaky Blinders? According to director Colm McCarthy, he wanted to be a bear. Find out the story behind Hardy's unusual approach and how it influenced his performance.
Oct 23, 2019 · Peaky Blinders is an epic gangster drama set in the lawless streets of post-war Birmingham. Peaky Blinders | BBC #BBC #BBCPeakyBlinders #BBCiPlayer #AlfieSolomons All our TV channels and...
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