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After headlining films from Danny Boyle and Neil Jordan, Murphy returned to the stage and signed up for a television series penned by acclaimed writer Steven Knight (“Dirty Pretty Things,” “Eastern Promises”).
The actor is a perfect fit in Knight’s universe of morally compromised men. His Tommy Shelby is a war veteran turned leader of the Peaky Blinders criminal organization.
He’s often stoic as he manipulates and calculates. But he’s also haunted — both by what he’s seen in the war and by his deep and abiding love for his late wife Grace.
Fans of the show often have to be reminded that he is actually a villain; murders, corruption, even shooting a horse.
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