who plays the main character in peaky blinders
Cillian Murphy
title: Peaky Blinders (TV series) text: suit for six episodes each. Filming for series 4 started in March 2017 and premiered on 15 November 2017 on BBC Two. Creator and writer Steven Knight will return to write every episode of series 4 and 5. Cillian Murphy has also confirmed his return for both series; the rest of the main cast are expected to return as well, and it was announced that Charlotte Riley is returning as May Carleton. Adrien Brody and Aidan Gillen have been cast as new characters. On 13 October 2017, it was confirmed that the show will not include The Weinstein Company or title: Peaky Blinders (TV series) text: up to that point. "Peaky Blinders" is a gangster family epic set in Birmingham, England in 1919, several months after the end of the First World War in November 1918. The story centers on the Peaky Blinders gang and their ambitious and highly cunning boss Tommy Shelby (played by Cillian Murphy). The gang comes to the attention of Chief Inspector Major Chester Campbell (played by Sam Neill), a detective in the Royal Irish Constabulary sent over by Winston Churchill from Belfast, where he had been sent to "clean up" the city of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Communists, gangs and title: Peaky Blinders (TV series) text: climax at Epsom racecourse on 31 May 1922 – Derby Day . Series three starts and ends in 1924 as it follows Tommy and his family enter an even more dangerous world as they once again expand, this time, internationally. Internet-based film and TV news company "Screen Rant" said: Series Three also features Paddy Considine as Father John Hughes; Alexander Siddig as Ruben Oliver, a painter whom Polly enlists to paint her portrait; Gaite Jansen as Russian Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna; and Kate Phillips as Linda Shelby, wife of Arthur. Series Four begins on Christmas Eve 1925 and ends following title: Peaky Blinders (TV series) text: Tommy Shelby, the gang's leader, and Sam Neill as Chester Campbell is a commissioned detective from Belfast who is tasked with suppressing the gang. The series creators have reused the name of Peaky Blinders, a 19th century urban youth gang who were active in the city from the 1890s and were believed to sew razor blades into their caps. The first series aired on BBC Two on 13 September 2013 and ran for six episodes. The second series premiered on 2 October 2014. The third series premiered on 5 May 2016. On 26 May 2016, the BBC announced they had title: Cillian Murphy text: Youth and Civic Engagement. He was also in the films "In Time" (2011), "Retreat" (2011) and "Red Lights" (2012). Since 2013, Murphy has portrayed Thomas Shelby, the lead of the BBC gangster series "Peaky Blinders", for which he has won two Best Actor - Drama Irish Film and Television Awards in 2017 and 2018 respectively. He was in the films "Transcendence" (2014), "In the Heart of the Sea" (2015), "Anthropoid" (2016) and "Dunkirk" (2017). Cillian Murphy was born in Douglas, County Cork, Ireland and was raised in Ballintemple, Cork, Ireland. His father Brendan worked for the Irish Department of Education,